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Discussion in 'Co-op Advertising Network' started by digitalpoint, Jul 8, 2004.

  1. jonnyplatt

    jonnyplatt Peon

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    #101
    ummm... sorry to be dense then, but how exactly does the page weighting system work - how does it track which accout grabs what?
    I'm guessing it's not a variable in ad_network.php else it wouldn't matter what host you put the ads on, so how does it do it except for by hostname or IP?
    Sorry to be a pest, it just seems all quite confusing to me! :)
     
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  2. jonnyplatt

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    #102
    or is it done by doing a "site:xxxxx.com" in google?
     
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    #103
    OK, I'm sorry - 1 last question, I promise! :D

    If I need to sign up for each subdomain, do I need to copy the individual code for each one, or can I use the same one across all of them? (You see, I use the same script so it would save a fair bit of effort :) )
     
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  4. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #104
    You can use the same script. The impressions are not logged (weighting is not based on it). It's based on how many pages you put ads on within your site.
     
    digitalpoint, Jul 14, 2004 IP
  5. rocky

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    #105
    I have the ads up on www.tblog.com (on the right side)

    Care to post your links?
     
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  6. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #106
    What do you mean by post links? People post where the are running ads?
     
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  7. rocky

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    #107
    Yeah, I am curious to see what they are looking like.
     
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  8. rocky

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    #108
    What is more important? PageRank of the ad bearing pages, or the amount of ad bearing pages?
     
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  9. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #109
    The main factor determining weight is number of ad bearing pages.
     
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  10. rocky

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    #110
    This seems unfair. If I offer 10 PR6 pages, and the next guy offers 20 PR0 pages, he will have MORE weight than me?

    P.S. Sorry to be annoying, just not sure I understand.
     
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  11. GuyFromChicago

    GuyFromChicago Permanent Peon

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    #111
    To me this is more about quantity than it is quality. Although with that said, the quality of participating sites is supurb.

    It's a numbers game. You want your link on more pages on more sites. With a coop like this, the PR of any of the given pages is almost completely irrelavent. If given a choice of a single PR8 anchor text link on one site vs 500 PR 0-2 anchor text links on 75 different sites I'll take the PR0-2 links any day of the week.
     
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  12. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #112
    In the above scenario, you would have roughly 5x the weight of the person with twice the content.

    I'm not going to disclose the exact weighting formulas (for the same reason Google doesn't disclose it's algorithms). Doing so opens it up to spamming to increase their weight.

    But anything you can think of has probably already been taken into account within it.
     
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  13. rocky

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    #113
    I think matching up pages similar in PR would be more benificial. PR works on a base 5 system correct? This doesen't mathimatically ad up. How could 500 PR0-2's even come close?
     
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  14. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #114
    I don't think anyone really knows what base number PageRank works on. But bottom line is the ad network is not based on PageRank itself, so...

    Also, participation is *not* about gaining PageRank, if that's what you are looking for, a better option would be to look for a PageRank based link exchange program.
     
    digitalpoint, Jul 14, 2004 IP
  15. Nitin M

    Nitin M White/Gray/Black Hat

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    #115
    I have it working for phpbb - is it worthwhile for me to writeup the modifications I made so other phpbb forums owners can join?

    I also have a cold fusion version of the script working ...

    Shawn - 1) is this okay, and 2) If yes, you want me to send it to you ?
     
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    #116
    Is phpbb spidered as easily as vB3 or do you have to install a spiderable hack? I think if someone with phpbb joins the ad network, they should have the spiderable forums hack installed (sorry, I don't know much about phpbb as I am a vB user).
     
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  17. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #117
    I have written up phpbb specific instructions already actually, I just needed someone to test them for me. I'm assuming you did it without my instructions, right?

    As far as phpbb forums being allowed into the network, there will be certain restrictions on them (such as being spiderable).
     
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  18. Nitin M

    Nitin M White/Gray/Black Hat

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    #118
    Ah - I didn't see your instructions for phpbb ... I'll go look for them now and see if great minds think alike ;)

    My forums are extremely spider friendly with all published (and some of my own) spider mods applied. :D

    http://www.seopark.com/forums
     
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    Nitin M White/Gray/Black Hat

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    #119
    I got to the phpBB install instructions by mucking with the URL param, but it doesn't look like you've published it yet?

    Anyway - yeah I did it exactly the same except for the variable name.

    So - I have lots of pages on sites written in cold fusion and I have re-written the ad_network.php in cold fusion so I can use <cfinclude in my footers for cold fusion based sites ... is this going to be acceptable?
     
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  20. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #120
    Yeah, should be fine...
     
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