Hi, I understand that you are allowed to display ads on all pages in a certain folder of your site in order to keep the ads off of some areas of your site. I would like to know if my site has 2 folders in the main directory and I have ads on all of those and the main directory's pages (so I'd have ads on every page of the site), and I signed up using the main directory's url, will I get the credit for displaying the ads that are on the pages inside of the 2 folders as well? Thanks!
You can't pick and choose which directories, unless you take the ones you don't want completely out of the google index. If you want to use your main directory as your base URL, then every page in your site that shows up in google's index must have ads. The way you word your question, it sounds like you have several folders in your main directory and you only want ads on 2 of them. That's not going to work if you want to include you main directory. The way that you can keep ads off some pages, is to use a folder, say www.mysite.com/mydirectory as your base url. then, you don't have to put ads on www.mysite.com's main directory, or any other folders besides mydirectory. You do have to put ads on any page or folders that is under mydirectory. Hope that helps. I probably just made it more confusing though.
Hi, I meant that I would have the ads on every page of the site (which is why I put that in parentheses to make it clear ), just wanted to make sure that if I did put ads on pages in those folders, that I would get credit for them as well as the pages in the main directory. Thanks
Hi, I have some pretty large sites and would like to display ads on only a few directories. ie - www.mydomain/dir1/ - has ads www.mydomain/dir2/ - no ads www.mydomain/dir3/- has ads www.mydomain/dir4/ - no ads etc... as far as I can work out - this is impossible. I can set up an account with www.mydomain/dir1/ as the base folder - no probs. But when I try to create another account for www.mydomain/dir3/ it complains that the domain is already being used by a different account. Is this an intentional limitation? Am I missing something?
I know you can't do that - that's why I posted the question Any chance DP could explain why this restriction? (I can't see the logic) As it stands - if I have one sub-directory on my site that has the same PR as the home page and 4000 or so pages indexed by G, there is nothing motivating me to place ads site-wide. I gain no additional weight even tho I'm displaying a whole ton of extra ads. I'm not complaining mind you - the co-op is absolutely awesome, I just want MORE MORE MORE! without registering even more domain names.
Wow - 3 posts and I get called 'pathetic'. I'm sorry you feel it is pathetic to want to maximize the return I get for displaying ads on my sites. Just wondered what the logic was behind such a limitation. I'm sure there is a perfectly valid reason, if anyone would care to explain without name-calling or just telling me to leave if I don't like it, I'd be very interested to hear. For what is it worth - I'm displaying ads site-wide on all my domains and will continue to do so. I have a lot of weight now and I'm seeing some GREAT results. Is it really 'pathetic' to want more of the same? or am I the only one interested in getting the maximum possible results out of the co-op? Why such an aggressive attitude to a perfectly valid question
Just spotted the thread regarding changing the cap to a log-scale and removing the cap. This would resolve the issue of not getting weight-credit for large sites - sounds like a good solution.
If you were allowed to maintain more than one path, people would theoretically pick and choose which individual pages to display ads therefore putting a dent in the quality of the network. Shawn has tried to be sure those in the Coop get the full benefit of having their ads seen. The only reason you are allowed to specify a folder at all is because of things like forums that may not be on a subdomain. Otherwise, there would be people that would just put the Coop on pages that people never see due to difficult navigation or other things.