My seo contest forum gets over 500 page views a day and my stats show about 100 impressions a day I am displaying 5 ads for over 2500 ads displayed a day why do I only get 100 of my ads displayed a day? Forum is pr6 do you get wieght for PR? I should get 1000s of impressions are stats correct? How come there are no stats avalible for how many ads you have displayed?
The weight algorithm is actually not based on the number of pageviews, but on the pagerank of the homepage and the number of pages indexed in Google's API site: search. Also, it takes 20 days for the the impressions to build up to the level that they will stay (more or less) at, if I understand how it works correctly. My guess is that you either just put these ads up recently, or you have very few pages indexed in Google. Hope this helps!
So if I don't create 10,000 spam pages my ads will not be displayed often? does populary have anything to do with algo alexa rank for today is 18,725 alex rank page views should count! I don't think its fair to display 2500+ ads and only get 100 of yours displayed unique page veiws should count even more
As far as I know, popularity does not directly influence the weight at all. The main problem is that it is hard to find out a sites true popularity. While Alexa data can give a general idea of a sites popularity, it is actually kind of easy to mess with that data to artificially increase your sites Alexa ranking. At the end of the day, I suppose that no algorithm is going to be perfect, but I think that Shawn has done a pretty good job with the current Algorithm. I agree that it would be nice if sites with a larger number of genuine visitors get a boost, but that is not really possible at this time. Also, if your ads are less then 20 days old, I would wait a while as the impressions should go up over the next 20 days (if I understand the system correctly).
Sounds like it's kind of like this site. when you are a peon, your ads don't really count as much as when you prove you are going to pull your weight