Why doesn’t Google mind the Digital Point Coop?
This is something that has puzzled me for years. With all the noise Google makes about stopping spam and cracking down on paid links why are they still letting people use what is arguably one of the spammiest link networks on the web to rank so well?
I’m talking about the Digital Point Coop which doesn’t rank for it’s own name on Google but which boasts search terms such as mobile phones, loans, credit cards, mortgages and many more as ones where it’s users have top rankings.
Some people even have 24 million links mostly from the Coop and Google does nothing about it.
Why?
Is it because they can’t? Or are we supposed to believe these 24 million links have already been devalued?
How hard is it to remove all the sites that use the Digital Point tracking gif from the index?
What makes you think they haven’t put penalties on that system before? They have
http://www.google.com/search?q=Digital+Point+Coop+penalty&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Comment by Jeremy Luebke — January 27, 2008 @ 11:14 pm
The company I work for put this on a test website and it started ranking quite incredibly and very quickly. Then just over a month later EVERY SINGLE PAGE was de-indexed down from around 10,000. We removed the co-op, submitted a re-inclusion request and all was well again so they definitely know about it.
Comment by Glen Allsopp — January 28, 2008 @ 12:48 am