I've got over 30 sites and ALL of them have dropped off the face of Yahoo. It started last month about the 22nd and now they are all gone. Almost all the sites were in top positions thanks to Shawns Coop. 2 of the sites had been around for years, had good position, and had no inbound coop links. I was using them to generate weight, but nothing pointing in. These sites have dropped too. Poof! I went from about 1200 Yahoo referrals total a day to 10 - no joke. Yesterday on one of my sites, the ONLY one still getting traffic from Yahoo, I got 183 referrals. Day before I got 207. Today.... 0. I searched for the terms that had been bringing all the traffic and they aren't in the top 100 - the same terms that YESTERDAY were top ten. Heck, two of them were #1! I read Yahoo is manually degrading position for sites that don't meet their quality standards - affiliate sites in particular. Yet I still see plenty of affiliate sites in top spots - only problem is none of them are mine anymore! Is it an AdSense thing? Anyone looked at that? Yahoo degrading sites running AdSense? Well, at least Google traffic has pciked up a little. Not much, but some. The loss of Yahoo traffic is costing me about $55 a day from where I was in April and the first 2.5 weeks of May, when all my sites where pulling Yahoo traffic.
Could Co-op cause this? I am not running adsense and My site was dropped from it's original #1, #2 rankings, now they're no where to be found, but I am running Co-op..?
Don't know if it means anything or not.... Over the last 6 weeks ALL my sites with inbound coop links have vanished from Yahoo! search results. Not all at once, but pretty much one at a time. Last one dropped yesterday evidently (see above). I have one site, built around the same template as two of my other sites, that displays coop ads but has never had any links pointed to it from the coop. This site has never enjoyed top positioning, but has been steady in the top 20 - 30 for two years for its targeted terms. This site is still there in its familiar positions, minus or plus one or two spots here and there. inbound links for dvdmoviehq, the site that dropped yesterday: 24,600 inbound links for the dvd player site in my sig: 21,200 inbound for the discount shopping site in my sig: 24,100 inbound links for the unaffected site: 93 ???
I don't like to run screaming and shouting coop caused it. But looking at it every site I know of that uses the coop doesn't rank. Take sites out your txt file, look for their anchor text... The more people that post the more of a clarification we'll have. Does anyone here using the coop rank in Yahoo? //edit Searching for my company name doesn't even reveal my site and then http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=digital+point&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-pull-web-t&fl=0&x=wrt only the forums.... Search for your company name....do you come up?
Quit the coop BS. I have 20 sites using the coop, only ONE got hit by this update. Why is it that every time a search engine does an update people start whining that it is the coop's fault?
Same here... most of my sites using coop droped out of the face of earth. Been saying this for a while here - coop should have implemented permanent links and themed sites long time ago. If we just sit and wait, sh*t happens. Time to move remaining sites to link-vault.
my main site that i point all of my coop weight to drop out of the yahoo rankings. I have not seen any improvements. :-( Weird as all of my competitors have remained and bumped up in rankings. I have been #1 for years and now no where to be found but msn & google still #1 ranking remains. weird as hell. loosing a few sales a day.
how long you had your inbound links from the coop Fryman? I enjoyed about 4 months of top placement before they started dropping, and it took about 2 months for the effects of the coop to be felt after I added the links. ANd it wasn't this update - it started about six weeks ago with my sites slowly dropping one by one. If Yahoo is devaluing sites based on inbound links, they are heading for a world of trouble. That would mean people can NEGATIVELY influence the rankings of competitor sites but putting link to them in the coop or other link-building programs and building up a relatively massive amount of inbound links in a short period of time.
Well I don't think it's Coop, cause I'm definitely seeing a trend in Yahoo results dropping for my sites, and NONE of them use Coop. I haven't had huge drops, but enough to see a pattern for sure. Lots of dancing back and forth too. To be honest I don't obsess over serps anymore. It's too time consuming. Just keep pluggin away at gaining exposure and you will see results. I very rarely do reciproca links...my strategy is to network on message boards, do press releases, submit articles, etc. All of my sites do very well and I do less than 10 recip exchanges per month probably. I don't run Coop either.
Most of the sites I target with the coop have been dropped from Yahoo also. All these sites ranked top 3 for each targeted term for the past 3 months now nothing in the top 9999. Seemed fine on the weekend and then today poof. I'm going to give it a week before I start messing around just incase it's a minor glitch. (Yeah I know I'm dreaming but crazier stuff has happened.)
I have been following this thread and at the same time watching serps in Yahoo. I am convinced something's up here. Up am not trying to highjack this thread Arnie but feel this may help us all put together peices to a puzzle. I have posted a thread over here and am curious what your opinions are regarding yahoo's recent execution of some websites. Thanks
If you make a search on yahoo for "Digitalpoint co-op".... nothing from digitalpoint.com is in the first few pages of results. That co-op login page has MASSIVE weight pointed to it. So even dp itself has been hit by this latest yahoo update.
I don't know if it's a coop only event. Something else is going on. http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum35/3396.htm Not sure what it is but I have one non-coop site and two coop sites that are now completely out of the Yahoo index. It's interesting that we're not hearing more chatter around the net? Are we living on an island?
Most people just keep quite I guess.. This yahoo thing is costing me over $100 a day.. the previous Google one cost me $200/day which is pretty significant... but I haven't posted much about either drop. The Yahoo one I'm just mentioning now. So, it's possible ppl are just keeping quite.
Fortunately Yahoo is a small percentage of my traffic. My hobby site is mostly for local pub bragging rights -I had the #1/2&3 spots in G/Y/M for 20+ kws related to my local community.
The Co-Op "Charity" experiment site has also dropped out of Yahoo. It supposedly has around 10,000 Co-op weight pointing to it.
Could they possibly be counting and cross referencing the 1 pixel image link with the ads in its proximity and applying penalities to the sites that the ads point to? (It's late so I apologize if that sentence is gibberjabber)