leaving COOP now, not good, but have to

I had a bunch of sites drop in weight but all of the sites that dropped did have dup content. All of them were amazon/shareasale portals that had been doing great in the coop for maybe a year so I guess I can't complain.

 

I believe also the Google API is having some major issues also at the moment. I wish all 3 engines would be in use instead of just Google for total weight calculation though.

 

No.. If google is having problems then COOP is having problems too.

I am still receiving large amounts of traffic for now, and other people in the coop are benefiting from my pages that are still indexed. These pages are still ranking for the targeted terms as well.

But with my low coop weight, this will soon be a bad situation for the site. The reason is because my coop weight is low and I am not going to have as many backlinks.

In my opinion this will hurt the whole coop not matter what weight you have now.

And say for instance.. This Google issue is/was just a test to identify sites in links networks that use Google to determine weight. Wouldn't it be better to have a weight system that couldn't be controlled by Google.

 

Yes. You're wrong.

You're correct that Google is having a problem. You're incorrect to believe that the Coop is NOT having a problem.

There is no longer any doubt that the site: query is messed up in Google. But it isn't messed up in a way that affects all sites equally. Some have seen little or no effect. Others have seen drastic effects.

That means for Coop members some are being heavily penalized and others less so... hence the suggestion to weight sites in a different way.

 

The odd thing is if I do a "Site" command in Google I see much different results than the Coop does. That is what may lead some to believe there is a "Coop problem".

 

It still isn't fair for me to show 70 thousand pages with COOP on it, that still get traffic from Google. Then not get a proper return.

So where is Shawn (aka Master of the weight) at.. I think it is time to hear his thoughts and what he is going to do about it. If anything.

 

Honestly no one really knows what Shawn's parameters are for determining weight, and I doubt it is really anyones business. So, I guess I need to clarify my post. I hesitate to say the coop is broken, (actually I do not think I ever said it was). What I am saying is that when I poll all the data centers via my scripts, I see much different results.

So that said, I have no idea if the coop takes and average of all the DC's, or polls a specific DC that seems to have less indexed pages then the ones I am polling.

Either way, there does appear to be a condenses that something is a bit amiss.

 

He's only saying that because you're his sister. And you have a gun.

That's not the question. Are you (or Shawn) able to say with any degree of certainty that all sites have been equally affected by what's going on with Google?

 

I have seen an 80% decrease.

 

Well, I haven't been a Coop member since last fall. I do know the Google issues aren't affecting all sites equally. However, I don't know exactly how Shawn calculates weight so I'll take your word for it - perhaps he has some way of compensating for that.

 

Wow, you people just love to waste your time walking in circles.

Why is everyone blaming the coop and asking Shawn to "fix" it? Why does everyone keep talking about google and pretending that the coop is some kind of SEO tool? The coop is an advertising network. When people start talking about rankings and google and stuff like that you are just showing that you are using the coop in a wrong way.

Agreed.

 

Oh, please...

 

Wow, that was a great rebuttal *yawn*

 

The problem is not all sites have seen a drop in indexed pages..for example DP is well above the 1.5 million mark...

where as other sites such as soompi.com, which is a MUCH LARGER forum than DP

Our members have made a total of 1,770,754 posts
We have 48,207 registered members

991 user(s) active in the past 15 minutes at freaking 2 am

has 59 000 indexed...they were 2-3 million a few months before

 

For all you know, svz, digitalpoint could be getting 100 weight right now

 

Well yeah, because he doesn't have the Co-Op code on the forums, duh

What I'm saying is this site:query problem isn't affecting all sites equally.

If it were we could easily determine a ratio between previous indexed numbers and current

 

Don't forget that the real page could is provided by the API, and we all know that amount has always had crazy fluctuations. A site with 100,000 indexed pages could only have 100 via the API