Weight not showing up

[goodgirl]

This morning I checked in on my account and everything was fine. Tonight I checked in and the sites were validated again, but the weight didn't caculate. Is this normal? Should I check in often to make sure the weight is still there? It did it to 4 of my site accounts. It was like 30K+ in weight.

[Lucky Bastard]

This COULD be because you have used the 1000 max queries on your API key. That happened to me.

If that is the case you either need to get a new key or wait until the Google day is over.

[goodgirl]

How many queries does it use to validate a site? And I validated them on my own and the weight showed up.

[Lucky Bastard]

I don't know the answer to that.

But if you share the key across this and they keyword tracker tool (which is what I did originally) and you check the keyword tracker tool a lot then that will quickly eat away at that 1000 limit.

It may be another reason, I am just speculating as I had the same problem and it was caused by the API key not working due to the limit being reached.

[Infiniterb]

I had a 0 earlier this morning. It went away after a few refreshes.

[goodgirl]

Well I will just try to keep watch.

[mmh3]

My 0 isn't going away. I have a fairly new website, and I was under the impression that this ad network would substantially help newer websites.

If I have weight of 0, are my ads showing at all or am I just showing other people's ads with no benefit to my website?

I have low traffic right now, but I do have ads on all of my pages which is about 30 pages at the moment.

Can anyone help me understand this ad network?

[thebassman]

What's your URL? How many pages has google indexed?

[crew]

Yesterday, the Google API was periodically showing '0 pages' for my sites. I assume this was happening all over, and if the server happened to validate your site at that time, you would get a 0 weight.

mmh3-
I'm pretty sure your ad won't be shown with a 0 weight. At minimum you need to get some pages indexed by Google.

[mrjonman]

How many pages has google indexed?
I take it from this question that the number of pages indexed by google affects the weight of a site in the co-op, correct?

Can anyone help me understand this ad network?
I'm also new to the co-op and just haven't had the time to read through the many different threads in the forum. I have read the co-op FAQ but there are many things that I still don't understand. Is there any "Quick Start Guide" that might have the answers to more FAQ than the existing FAQ page does?

Thanks

[Infiniterb]

The way validation works is that the co-op will pick a random page that google knows about using the site:www.domain.com command. If it picks a page and no ads are on said page, you will get the error message saying it hasn't found the ads on the page.

The weight of a site is effected by PR and the amount of pages in google, as well as the amount of ads you have displayed (1-5). Your weight cap is primarily defined by your PR. For each number of PR (1-10) there's a threshhold defined for your base weight. You can add to that weight by referring users to the co-op, but your base weight is stuck based on your PR. And there's no "official" documentation about the amount of weight each PR receives.