Cost/Benefit Analysis of Multiple Ads

What do people think about the cost/benefit analysis to having multiple ads?

For example, I know that for the 2nd ad is worth a percentage less in weight than the 1st and so on.

So would it be worth the PR leak to have 5 ads on your pages if the 5th isn't worth hardly anything compared to the first? Is the extra weight worth it?

I am trying to think - maybe there's a sweet spot? Like having 3 ads for example.

What are the facts on this matter?

 

Depends how much you value your weight vs how much you value your PR...

 

Yes, this is fairly obvious - which is why I posted this thread. To see how people felt about this, and to see the results they've had because of multiple ads, and to see if it was worth it for them, considering the PR leak.

Thats why I titled it "cost/benefit analysis".

 

I wouldn't even consider thePR leak when thinking about it.
The returns you gain will far outweigh and "PR leak" that you see...

 

Does anyone else get one of the, western union, final fantasy, or digital photography ads show up nearly every time the page is refreshed? Maybe the weight of the larger sites should have a larger dampening factor on the number of pages indexed by google. Othewise the smaller sites are going to get lost in the network.

 

They don't get lost.

It's just that the big boys are seen a little more often.

 

Thats what I am saying, does the current process not just make the "big boys" bigger.

 

we all get bigger... its then down to us to exploit the opportunity that creates

 

Actually I think the network is setup with the right balances. Any coop ad network needs larger sites with high PR ratings but how to attract them? I think increased weight is fair. I have thought about this a while and I can not come up with an alternative to Shawn's scheme to make it attractive.

But how to make it fair for the smaller sites? Well, there are weight caps so the larger sites can not totally dominate the network. In fact, there have been some comments that the caps are not fair. How else could a small site get exposure on a potentially high PR site? You can try for a reciprocal link by sending out an email but the % and effort is much greater than the coop.

It is strictly "you get want you give" which ultimately is fair in my mind.

 

I think the benefits far outweigh the costs with the Coop Ad Network.

Plus, at the most you're talking about five outbound links per page. That's not too much dilution in my opinion. Especially when you take into account how many "Thousands" of backlinks you can get in return.

 

From my observations very little pages other than index.php or /forum/ page has any PR whatsoever. If that site has 10,000 pages indexed whats the chances of your link landing there?

I didnt post this to cause controversy as this network appears to be(another) brilliant idea from Shawn. The only question I try to bring up is do people think the larger sites have already dominated the network?

Maybe having a limit on the number of times a link can be shown on the same page in a given time period?

 

My point was not that it would pass any PR. But "on balance" the theory is that a higher PR site tends to get indexed more by Google. Well at least that is the theory .

 

Most people think PR is not an issue these days. It's all about the links (though that is also coming into question - maybe not anytime soon).

 

I understand about it not being a PR network. Just wondering if people thought 5 ads were worth it - taking into consideration diminishing value of the 5th, etc.

Also, its not a PR network, but obviously it helps SERPS (or so I've read) and PR has been part of getting higher in the SERPS, so it obviously may all be intertwined.

So, it seems that in general people see that 5 links would definitely be worth it, PR "leak" or not from actual results they have seen in SERP improvement. Is this safe to say?

 

Just out of interest what number of additional backlinks are people seeing that have generated from the network?

 

I think the weight is worth whatever PR leak you may have, unless you are selling PR... in that case, it may not be worth it to you... otherwise, it's a god-send.

As for additional backlinks, I saw a jump of about 6,000 from before I joined the network to after... I'm sure some of that was through link exchanges, natural links, directories, etc, though.

 

I have seen 1 link so far, from my site which has a weight of 2000

 

MMM should be a bit more than that but give it time

Myself I went from about 1k to 3k I do get a lot of nature links plus exchanging , but this is worth it plus worth a little bit of help | Click Here |

 

I am seeing over 2500 links per site showing up from the Ad Network in Yahoo's results.