Weight Question

[LinkBliss]

What's a good amount of weight? I went from 20,500 to 40,500 running two text links in my forum and presumably I could get 80,000 if I ran four text links? If I spread it around the rest of my site as well as others running php I don't think 120k or even 200k would be out of the question. Could I rank in the top 10 for "christmas gifts" ?

Eric

[lorien1973]

Depends on your PR. I think there is a max weight dependent on the PR of your homepage.

Christmas gifts is a rough term. Most anything with gifts in it is going to be hard to rank for, but anything is possible.

[SanDiego]

Is this whole thing for weight based on a sites PR or on how many times and places the ads are shown?
I just placed them on my site that google doesn't index (because I bought it after it expired from someone else and even though i worte G an email... it still doesn't spider it) and I am curious if that will work. I get thousands of hits a month from yahoo and MSN... so those ads will be shown, but just not on google... am I out of the "weight" loop now? :confused:

[digitalpoint]

Yeah... your site would need to be in the Google index to have any real value to you.

[crew]

In reference to the original post, are increases in weight linear? For example, if I double my pages does that necessarrily result in a doubling of weight?

Just curious because it seems like at some point (say over 20,000 pages), the increase in pages would not be as valuable to the network as when a site is smaller.

[digitalpoint]

It's not linear...

[thebassman]

...and there's a cap/site on your weight.

[SanDiego]

Yeah... your site would need to be in the Google index to have any real value to you.
so should I take them off the non indexable site then and just ad them to other sites I have...Is it better to have them on a lower pr site that would get more ad impressions or a site/page with higher pr but less impressions?

[digitalpoint]

Impressions have nothing to do with it (they aren't even tracked).

[LinkBliss]

doh! I thought weight had everything to do with impressions. How about the number of pages? For instance, I think I have 20k pages in my forums that are indexed in Google. Does that matter? Or just the pr of the top page?

[digitalpoint]

It's mostly about number of pages you run ads on.

[LinkBliss]

How does it know? For instance, in the configuration I put in the top page of my forum, as users visit all the threads does it pick up on the other pages?

Eric

[digitalpoint]

It checks to see how many pages Google knows about within your domain, then randomly spot checks some of them.