Lost all my coop links in google

Well today is a different day. My site is back up to the 3700+ links it showed previously and several other sites I maintain are showing large improvements in IBL's and in pages in url. Like I said in my original post, I wasn't worried about it, just a bit disapointed. Since I don't have any spam sites in the index, I figured it would just take some time to pan out. Little did I know it would be less than 48 hours. I really do like Google.

 

I'm still waiting for things to look up... I'll give it until Christmas, I guess...

 

Well the one thing that makes me think its Google and not the netwrk specifically is that I added around 300 links w/ the same anchor text across around 150 sites (much like the network) and that page has been moving the same way as the network sites.

 

Yeah... I have a feeling google is starting to sandbox all links, which pretty much eliminates the usefulness of then network, as short term links might not be carrying any weight... that's just my guess, though...

 

Hey! we gotta consider all the indexed pages in the network too! Definitely there're some sites not doing the right way and lose pages.

I don't think it's network problem. If it's, G could have filter my BLs that I acquire from reciprocal link exchange.

My sites target at highly competitive search terms & are picking up the BLs now. It'll take times to come into top10 SERPs b'coz I believe G is considering *link age*.

 

Id like to know how the validate link uses the google API. All the queries no doubt originate from digital point, so all google would do is when a domain is validated they would simply penalise that domain parsed by digital point script ?

 

Ya gotta love conspiracy theories

 

I have non coop sites that have dropped, and non coop sites that have moved up for terms I'm after. I have coop sites that have gone both ways too. I highly doubt Google is filtering the coop. If they are, I don't see any evidence of it across my sites.

 

Hi,

One of my site droped few days ago totaly from google, but today it's back to where it belongs. I think it was a google problem, not the coop.

 

Still waiting for my site to "recover" if it ever does. Have noticed that it is back in the top 200. But it was on the first page before this latest update.

I have noticed it on its old spot on 2 datacenters but who knows if that really means anything.

 

Yup, I agree.. One thing about the COOP that is to its advantage is that with each new member that signs up that means there are more websites that will appear and more sites that our sites will be listed on, not to mention each site typically does more for backlinks than the COOP.. So I'm not worried about the COOP being anything other than purely brilliant.

 

You hit validate.. get a shitty datacenter = reduced weight
You hit validate.. get a shiny datacenter = improved/original weight

Is what I'm finding, so it has to be Google flux issue. No?

 

That's what worries me... the co-op being a "brilliant" Google SERP manipulating tool. You don’t think Google will pay attention to the co-op?

 

Yeah, but the COOP is what 2000 sites. Compare that to G's 8 billion. We are all still small fry (even as a network), and even with the sexiest algo we willl still skip under their radar.

 

Coop is somewhere about 3 000 now (i think) and growing FAST. Few weeks ago it was just 1 800 sites. You can find information about the network on all major SEO forums. A lot of users have their link to coop with referal id in signatures.

 

Well, you can only hope for the best in every situation.. But hey, Google is the reason everyone is building links with so many different sites. If it weren't for their algo people would result to new ways to find out how to get to the top. Personally I think its a great tool. Perhaps Google might notice it and realize that if people are going to these extremes to work their way to the top, maybe the site isn't half bad because its obvious that the webmaster is putting at least some effort into it. Not to mention, its a lot less spammy to have 1-5 links on your site instead of hundreds all over. I really think that it would be super beneficial if it were content focused (or topic related links only). Then if Google did start to notice it, perhaps they would respect it more.

I don't know.. I just think it's absolutely wonderful and I would hate to see anything bad happen

 

I really don't see how google could even detect the coop on our sites, as there is no evidence of it existing in our source codes. I wouldn't worry about it, just another Google gas bubble....

 

I don't think that's likely, as it would make for some real problems on legitimate 'news' freshness in the SERP's.

I might even suggest to the contrary, that there may be an initial 'spike' in Google relvancy on a 'spike' of inbound links for that very reason (news), followed by an eventual drop in the SERP's to 'normal' levels once it becomes 'old news'.

 

That could explain why a lot of us saw huge jumps in the SERPs when we first started using the network, then a drop back after a couple of months...

 

So have any of you who saw ranking drops get back up where you were? I'm holding off on adding more sites to the network until after this update, but so far my sites seem to be rising rather than falling...