Hi, I've removed all my ads from the rotation 4 months ago...early November. For the past 3 or 4 months my ads are still rotating and seen in the fresh search engine cache of coop particpants on both Google and Yahoo. Double-checking with Google webmaster tool shows fresh backlinks from the Coop found just 7 days ago....the freshest links there from other sites are also 7 days ago, meaning those links were there for sure just a week ago. I have zero ads approved, which means that these ads can only be coming from the local sites' *.txt cache files. Those caches should clean up and sites should be off the coop for good when they clear the ads. Say 72 to 96 hours would be a decent time to clear....but 4 months is ridiculous. There is a bug with the system. This is bad for both new publishers and older ones like me. 1) Bad for new ones, because people with new ads are not seeing their ads there where mine are taking space. 2) Bad for older guys, because I REALLY need to get the freaking ads down and the coop won't let me.
ARRRGHHH To the Co-op administrators: I need my ads taken down immediately, please. Since the original post above, I have checked when in was that i deleted the ads, I took a note on my Palm, and it was precisely December 12, 2007. When I removed the ads, that was a request to have the ads removed immediately or within a reasonable ammount of time considering caches and such problems. It has been 3+ months now since I deleted the ads and my site is still bombarded with 200.000 backlinks from the coop. That'd sound good if it weren't for the google penalties over 70% of my co-op sites have acquired. Please have some Co-op administrator remove my ads from it. I can understand that you can't review ads in time, I can understand you have a lot to do. But 3+ months to delete the ads is too much, honestly, it is just lack of any respect. EDITED - REMOVED THIS FOR THE TIME BEING. If you admins can read edited posts, you'll probably be able to help me now.
Update: after having completely removed the ads from all my sites...suddenly my links coming from the coop INCREASED by 10.000.... The incoming links have been increasing steadily since december 2007 even though I have deleted the ads back then and since a few days I even took the coop script off my pages to see if zero weight would finally clear the ads...no luck. So where is my weight coming from? I have zero weight....and the ads are deleted.... How come deleted ads still show out there and even increasing?