I've just got an email saying that because I have a section of my site which is not displaying the ads I've been dropped from the network. I've reviewed the coop rules and I can't see where it warns of this. It seems a little harsh that every page must display the ads. I would have thought that if you hid the ads on an obscure page you display fewer ads so in turn you have fewer of your own ads displayed. If you have sensitive pages where it's inappropriate to have random material then they should be able to be omitted. Or have I missed something? Sarah
You´ve missed something. I couldn´t join the Co-op for exactly that reason. If your site has directories, like mysite.com/chickens/file.htm then you can elect to put the coop in with the chicken directory. If you want it to run from the root of your site - forget it.
The problem with what you would prefer is that then the co-op network has to run a page count of the pages you have displaying ads - which means it would have to spider them, which with 5000 active sites, some with 100s of 1000s of pages is a pretty server and bandwidth intensive task. If the pages you want not showing the ads are internal pages that don't need SE visibility you can always use robots.txt to deny the files to spiders. That way, the pages don't get indexed in google and the co-op network doesn't need to bother with them. The way it works now, is the coop network gets a page count from google and checks a few random pages from your site. That way it can calculate your weight pretty quickly.