[Webfu]

I have a buddy that was involved with the co-op from DP. He runs a large website related to bars, beers and wine. Last month on June 21st he got penalized by Google along with some of the other participants of the DP co-op.

Now he doesn't even come up for his site name, let alone the keywords he was ranking for.

To me, the co-op still sounds like an un-natural - bad idea in the on going saga to increase website traffic. Too Risky.