Just an odd issue - I thought I'd experiment with Co-op on a site, but what I find really odd is that it doesn't matter whether I put 3 or 5 ads on the site - I still end up with exactly the same link weight. Is this an indicator that perhaps I'm doing something a little wrong? So far as I can tell, all ads are displayed across all pages, which is a rather substantial number.
Are you sure the ads are on all pages? When it comes to validating, if a page with 3 ads has been found, that's what you will get weight for.
If it's a large number of indexed pages, you might have hit the cap with 3 ads already. (Or does the cap rise when choosing 5 ads? Even when it does, Brian might have hit it again.)
I thought that it was a multiplying type effect when you added more ads. I always thought that the cap was also dependant on the number of ads that you are showing, so you can't hit the cap without displaying 5 ads.
No problem - I just tried with just 2 ads and the link weight isn't too far beneath 3. Anyway, I'll just try it with 2 ads instead of 3, and see how that goes.
There definitely is a difference between 3 and 5. If it stays at the same level for when you move to 5, my guess is you have some pages that are still at 3 (it takes the lower value of what it finds when validating).
I would guess Brian you have reached a cap - I had this on a pr6 and pulled it down to 3 ads in the end which was slighly below the cap
The cap is applied BEFORE the number of ads are taken into account. So it doesn't matter how many pages you have or what your PR is. 5 ads will always give more weight then 4 (or anything else lower).
I have the same issue I have the same weight for 3 ads as 5 ads www.supportcave.com I spent the last hr going over all my pages most are a forum, or php directories, so its all added to them automatically only about 100 of the max of 1000 are manually added. my weight is still Base: 9,201 I have been reading other posts and I re did the ad_network.php file google has about half or so of my pages Results 1 - 10 of about 460 from www.supportcave.com for http://www.google.com/search?source...LD:2004-50,GGLD:en&q=site:www.supportcave.com any ideas?