June 27th revisited

Yes, I agree some co-op sites are pretty bad. I can't believe they're approved. I am almost sure co-op ads/links was the reason of my site being banned on June 21.

It does sound more and more like the co-op code is being targeted (even with the nofollow). There was another user who had removed his co-op code and reinclusion now back in the SERP as well.

 

Well if you look at my site, the only "sin" that is being commited on it is the coop ads. Sure there were things that could have been cleaner from a coding standpoint, however, nothing that should have raised red flags with Google.

 

I can only agree to that your site is all green and okey. Myself couldn't have done a site better in content nor age.

What i cant figure out is why that page is being punished and not, for example, my 7 months old keyword-linkarchive. Still being placed top10 on most keywords.
Alot to learn or alot to complain about. Is google really this blind or is it something that we have to get used with?

 

Well it is an environmental site, it had better be green. Oh wait, its brown. D'oh! there's the problem, I have a brown environmental site when it should be green.

 

The fact that sites of all persuasions dived in the serps on June 27th, with some coming back up just a month later (not a gradual improvement - but a 'pop' - they're back), others dropping at the same time, along with many, many, other google inconsistencies, leads me to believe that there is still something wrong with google and the big daddy update.

 

Oh, I agree with you. But there is also too much mounting evidience that coop is a contributing factor AND lets be honest here, how many people really use coop ONLY for the human traffic it can generate. How many people would really use it if all coop links had rel=nofollow? Whether it was designed to be or not, coop is commonly being used as a link trading scheme to inflate backlinks.

 

I don't have co-op, and I got slammed. So I wouldn't blame the co-op yet.

 

Yes there are hundreds of sites out there that have also been slammed and are not on the co-op.

I am working on a couple of business sites that have been ranking top 5 in their topic for over 3 years but after the 27th Google dropped them like a brick. Although one of them is starting to climb back again since Monday #650 on the results

 

When? June 27?

 

MY site dropped June 21, so it may be a totally different update then the sites on June 27.

 

I was dropped June 21 too, but I think it's the same update as June 27

 

I can actually see that page indexed in the UK, looks like more people were hit than we 1st thought, i now have around 3 pages indexed all supplememental... ermmm fully stuck

I don't have co op or link vault either and have 3 pages out of around 2000 indexed and as i said the 3 are supplemental... oh well

 

has anyone experienced their internal pages from having a google rank to now having no google rank at all ? my home page is still ranked... but all other pages have lost their rank...many were 3s and 2s.. but now none are ranked... just an empty white spaced PR bar.

 

I don't thinks so.. because the June 21 updated affected small number of sites.. (there is no mention of June 21 update on other forums like webmasterworld. only here).

 

My main site indexed pages start dropping from the June 21 and from the June 27 no changes yet.

 

Did you use co-op?

 

Yes, and removed it Jul 3 (Updated)

 

Maybe the penalty was already in the works because of this?

 

Oops, sorry, Jul 3!!

 

I agree.. I believe the June 21 update was targeted toward co-op (or other similar link scheme) sites.