I have been tracking many of the large coop sites in yahoo and they are gradually getting the boot. Last night I was doubtful coop had much to do with it when I saw the charity site was still alive. Today, with the charity site gone and many, many of the sites with large amounts of coop pointiing at them gone as well, I am reaching the same conclusion. I still love the coop, just starting to think that yahoo doesn't. Or, maybe Yahoo just dumped 1/2 of the sites out of the serps for no apparent reason. I am seeing sites with just 20 backlinks from pure link farms ranking well for one popular search term and a site that I know had over 100k of coop weight pointing at it disappear from the same results. This same site ranks over really quality sites with 10k legitimate good backlinks and good traditional on page seo. How does a site with 20 backlinks and the keyword phrase on the page 2 times rank in the top 5 of 10 million results, when all 20 links are from link farms? Solve this one and getting to the top will be easy.
I had top rankings long before I started with coop around 4 months ago. I don't think that this has anything to do with coop. I'm pretty sure that Y messed up with something.
I found this Search results without descriptions? Do you see the same? http://search.yahoo.com/search/msie?p=bartters syndrome&ei=UTF-8&fl=0
Perhaps they put low content sites on the top of the search results, so that people would click more on their sponsored links.
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Im starting to get a bit worried.... Its almost a week later now and still no changes. Makes me wonder ???
same here...for the past few days, site is jumping from 2nd page to 1st page & vice versa and now, its nowhere to be found on the serps..
Has anyone noticed when you have mouse over on a link it shows rds.yahoo.com............at the status bar What is that?
costing me thousands in sales since early yesterday, Tues. 6/13. FWIW, my site has weight pointing TO IT, doesn't host the co-op, but is listed in the Y! Directory. I did notice that a lot (not all yet?) of my competitors who were also listed in the directory and had serps in the top 10 also fell out, bringing the unpaid sites to the top. Hope it all clears up soon. Perhaps it hasn't hit everyone which is why this thread isn't as active as you might expect. edited: While at the same time, another organic listing that DOES host the co-op network holds steady at #16 for the same search term and is NOT in the directory which leads me to think it's directory related, am I up for renewal already??? Oh, and they both run adsense.
To get second out of 2,850,000 sites you just just make a "our site is under construction" site and put some links on it - presto - search term "plastic cosmetic surgery" search engine: Yahoo I don't want to place a link here. Try it and you will understand what I mean.
i just made some sales from yahoo today so maybe it is our rankings are slowly climbing back. 3 sales lol better than nothing thank god for msn & google... plus we get some sales from small SEs
Something is happening with yahoo. It dropped 50% of my pages and then again started picking up. And giving totally different results in India and US for top 10.
One of my sites whoich has had quite a significant coop weight pointed to it and was runing coop ads dropped out of rankings in Yahoo. A search for the company name or domain name (less .com) doesn't show my site in the first 500 results. The site still is in the Yahoo index but the number of indexed pages has been dropping by a lot. 4 days ago site:mydomain.com was returning 278 000 pages and now it's down to 17 000 pages. The way I see it is that Yahoo doesn't have a *coop filter* (yet again maybe it does :-|) but that they implemented a somekind of a link number filter. Once a site hits the threshold - goodbye. I was ranked #1 for my main search terms in Yahoo for about 2 years (way before coop). The #2 site (currently #1) has 1253 links (excluding links from its own domain) pointing to it. My site still shows 175 000 links pointing to it, excluding my own domain. I think that if there is a threshold it's not the same for all sites, it may be dependent on the category, competitors, whatever. One more thing... Never had a Yahoo directory listing and am not about to have one.
I think you may have something there. Too much co-op weight (rotating links?) pointing to a particular site is probably not a good thing for Yahoo right now. The "Charity" site is a good example. 10,000 weights pointing to it and it's now nowhere to be found in Yahoo. It was #17 just last week? I have small sites with little weight (<200) pointing to itself and has not been affected by this latest Yahoo update. I'll wait and see next week. If my large sites don't come back in Yahoo, I'm moving my sites to LV or abandon Co-op altogether.