This huge jump is from just 60,000 of weight now vs 80,000 of weight during the early May gold rush when people had a ton of weight but you got way less impressions for the weight. When the ad started, it was around 90,000 of weight. Cut the weight by 25% and you get a 350% increase in impressions!!!
Not neccesarily - It could be that your ad was assigned to a couple of high traffic sites during that time frame (Or extremely low traffic during the previous frame) High impressions don't neccesarily equate to high number of ads
Can someone explain this a bit more, please? If case is relative it would be nice if we knew how much weight and how many impressions exist in total to get an idea what is possible and what a weight is really worth. As it is currently weight doesn't tell anything but the number's value.
Shawn hasn't given the "total" number before so I'm not sure if it is going to happen now. Most people judge the success on impressions/results, not literally amount of weight. If everyones full weight is now their original weight/100 then you are getting the same amount of links/impressions. Its the people that now show 0 that have a more legitimate complaint.
I understand this. But there is no way to compare if you are new. And if one gets only some hundred impressions or even odd numbers like 11.8 impressions, what does that tell him/her? Nothing. And he doesn't even get an idea how to improve this.
Mine is closer to 1/1000, but yeah, ok. What I am wondering now, though, is would it really be accurate to say that the total amount of impressions available to share among everyone in the coop has stayed the same? If pages are being dropped into the supplemental results, thus dropping our weights, then those pages are no longer available to show impressions on. (Since, I assume, the impression only happens when the page gets refreshed/viewed, which wouldn't be happening on those supplemental pages, at least in Google).
Number of impressions doesn't correlate to number of available pages indexed. Just because your page doesn't show up via the API (whatever the problem is) doesn't mean it doesn't show on most datacenters and certainly doesn't mean it can't be visiited by Google/Visitors and create an "impression"
You're right; I forgot the most important factor- total amount of traffic/impressions across all pages in the coop. Now it makes sense. Thanks.