Okay, I completely understand not disclosing how the network figures out weight for a website. I know that the total weight is over 1MM now so take your base weight and divide to get the percentage of when an add will show in the network. Let's keep the math simple and say this is 1%. What I am trying to understand is the potential for backlinks within the network? So based on 1%, how many potential backlinks can I get? I know that there are lots of variables one major one being when a page gets indexed. How often a site gets indexed, etc. But is it possible to know the total number of indexed pages within the network also to get a top estimate? - even though it would be nearly impossible to reach on average.
A rough estimate would be, for the number of pages you run ads on, that's how many of your ads would be running at any given time. It doesn't generate "free" links for people, it's a coop network... so the more people give to the network, the more they receive.
Yup get it that it is coop network. The more you offer the more you get. If I run ads on 500 of my pages, then approximately 500 would be running at any given time in the network. But doesn't weight affect this up or down? More weight more exposure. Therefore, if I carry a weight of 1% of the network, I had thought that an more accurate estimate would be 1% of the total indexed pages in the network? It's late here in the east coast so maybe I am not thinking straight on this one.
Right... of course a direct correlation would be the flat percentage of your total weight divided by the total weight of the network. Those are the exact chances that one of your ads would be showing on any ad network page at any time. The weight is determined by a few other things too... for example, how many other links are on the pages you run ads, PageRank, etc. If your pages have an average PageRank and an average number of other links on your pages (averages being relative to the other ad network pages), then it would basically be a 1:1 ratio of your pages to the number of external pages your ad would show on. But as you can imagine, a page running the ad network that is a PR1 with 500 other links on it doesn't quite have the same value as a PR8 page with 5 other links on it, so that's why the weight isn't simply the number of pages you run ads on.
So, if the network had 10 million indexed pages, the maximum potential for an ad to show at any given time is 100,000 with a 1% weight. I am trying to understand this aspect of the network - the max. potential for backlinks. Is it possible to know how many indexed pages are in the network? I get the weight aspect regarding PR. But you did remind me of the number of links on a page - I may need to rethink a few of my pages around. Thanks for the reminder!
No, I don't even know (at least anyway easily accessible) the total number of pages on the network (which of course changes all the time so it would be a really rough guess anyway).
Thanks for the quick replies. I am a happy coop member and thanks for setting it up. One my keywords went from nowhere to 15 in 30 days! And all I used was the network & some internal linking.