Base weight Calculations

[zanis]

Hello!

First off - awesome idea!!

Now.... I just signed up to the Ad Network and attempted to validate my web site but it seemed to have failed with this error:

Site failed automatic validation as of 2004-08-18 (make sure URL and site type is correct - if everything is correct, it may require manual validation

Which is okay cos its more than likely my fault. The question I have is that it worked out my based weight regardless... now it calcuated it out at 2,812 but when I went to your tool for backtracking it gave me 291 for the same site and then when I used inurl:www.me.com site:www.me.com in google it gave me 2,080. so how did you work out my based weight?

Cheers

Marc

[digitalpoint]

The weight is not entirely based on pages in the site. And even for the part that it does, it's not a 1:1 ratio...

[zanis]

Hello - thanks for replying!

I was wondering if you could just provide a little more information on how your work out the weightings... I don't want you to expose your IP but do access the google api and get a web sites page rank? or do you use somethign else?

Cheers

Marc

[jontelofot]

Yeah, I've been wondering the same thing myself :)

Enlighten us!
... or at least give us a clue ;)

[digitalpoint]

Sorry, the weighting formulas are intentionally not disclosed. You can find some additional info here:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=17063#post17063
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=23005#post23005