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Originally Posted by 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.
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I'm the boozer that Webfu was talking about.
Basically, I was using it to try to game Y & MSN.
I was pointing all of my bar site's weight at other small sites I run. My big site had no inbounds via the coop.
We weren't banned just severely penalized, average position at 31-40 for "My Business Name My City",
There was pretty lively discussion about it on the DP forum, and I think it spurned the guy who runs it to ad a nofollow option.