Comments on: Poll: What should Google do about the Digital Point Coop

By: timmo

timmo — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:01:03 +0000

I agree totally with you Gerbot; Patrick is very bitter about the DP CooP.

Its case of “God if you cant make me slim, please make all my friends fat”

funny!

By: Mahmoud

Mahmoud — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:12:13 +0000

Now I understand how I went from PR4 to PR0

By: GerBot

GerBot — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:00:29 +0000

you can’t ban the sites that run the ads.
you just remove the PR, essentially their ability to vote.
this removes the market value and the network will die.

kinda funny really because I reckon the DP co-op was under the radar till they updated and started showing DG pixels.

worst move ever!
for the record I don’t go in for the DP co-op bashing like above, if you’re getting beaten by them don’t go crying to everyone * Google…. either
play dirty too
work hard
or sit and wait.

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By: Collin LaHay

Collin LaHay — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:45:43 +0000

I would hope it would only get the weight removed, and not a penalty.

Can you imagine how easy it would be to totally destroy competition if sites were getting penalized for it? It would be like a three way link exchange of death!

By: Guy Patterson

Guy Patterson — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:03:53 +0000

The co-op isn’t advertised as a way to get page rank. Since the links usually always change, I don’t see the harm. The co-op is more of an advertising network to get unique visitors, not page rank. That’s my understanding of it anyway..

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:52:12 +0000

The Coop is a link scheme and this is against the guidelines as far as I can see.

By: How Good is Your Credit?

How Good is Your Credit? — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:44:52 +0000

I don’t have a problem with it – Unless it’s a CLEAR violation of google’s TOS. If they are right at the line without tipping over, well kudos to them for figuring out how far to push google. However if they are clearly violating the terms of service then it’s going to come back to bite them in the rear because google always finds out eventually.

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:49:00 +0000

In the spring of 2006, we found the co-op and had TREMENDOUS success with it. As with most things too good to be true, though, that was short-lived. That summer both Google and Yahoo (Yahoo?!) brought the hammer down. Google just removed value from the links (since there was an obvious signature that they could use to detect them) and Yahoo eliminated the participating sites from the results altogether. Ever since then, we’ve ignored the co-op.

Are you seeing co-op links passing weight again?