I signed up with coop about 2.5 weeks ago. What indicators are people using to determine whether coop is working for them. I have noticed that my backlinks in MSN went up a lot and quickly. Recently Alltheweb/altavista and yahoo have almost doubled. I am not certain if this is normal fluctionations due to other seo work or the recent use of coop. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
I use backlinks in MSN it's pretty obvious which ones are from the Coop. Also I look at SERP positions, can't tell what all contributing factors are but am sure that the Coop isn't hurting
I'm more optimistic then that. I want to see how much good it's doing I saw some recent jumps in SERPs for a key phrase I wasn't actively targeting, well not deliberately. It's a subset of the main key phrase I''ve been chasing. It's number 9 on yahoo and number 5 on msn. Both have about 17.5m results for a search of that key phrase. It has been less then a week for that SERP change so my stats reports are not much to go by but I can see a definite jump for that key phrase.
MSN and Y are the most used indicators so you're right there. SERPs is the next thing but normally lags a bit behind BL increase.