How does Individual Ad Weight Work?

[joeychgo]

In your pool of advertisments - for each ad you choose the "Weight"


Someone please explain how this works. I assume a '1' means top priority - so if you ahve 3 ads, the ad with 1 will get shown more then 2 - but I would like a better explanation...

[yfs1]

lol - I thought 5 was the best. :confused:

[Foxy]

Its the other way round - 5 is top weight - 1 is bottom
all ads at 5 will get the same weight each as all at 1
1 ad at 5 and 1 ad at 1 - the one at 5 will get substantially more showings than the one at 1
etc

[joeychgo]

any percentages between the numbers?

i.e. Out of every 100 impressions

a 5 gets ____ impressions
a 4 gets ____ impressions

etc....

[T0PS3O]

I thinks it's like this:

Say you have 3 ads.

Ad A - Weight 1
Ad B - Weight 1
Ad C - Weight 3

Total individual Weight: 5

A gets shown 1 out of 5 times.
B gets shown 1 out of 5 times.
C gets shown 3 out of 5 times.

So it's in 'internal' fractal determining priority.

[minstrel]

but i don't see 1 to 5 in the drop down box... i see 1 to 15 -- what's that about?

[joeychgo]

err - this post was made before the change to allow a choice of 1-15 - it was originally 1-5

[yfs1]

You must have been bored yesterday digging through 3 month old posts. :p You are correct. It is now 15 and that is the best amount of weight.

I believe this was changed after people asked for a little more control over the percentages.

[Carol K]

So if I have 5 ads, and each one is set to 1, then each ad gets shown the same amount of times, right?

[minstrel]

You must have been bored yesterday digging through 3 month old posts.
No. not bored... confused... :eek:

So if I have 5 ads, and each one is set to 1, then each ad gets shown the same amount of times, right?
Right.