How long does it take for my ads to show up on other peoples sites? I know my site probably doesn't have much weight but I refreshed someones site at least 100 times and have yet to see any of my ads I mean i see western union, Seraphim Proudleduck, Photography Forums, and Final Fantasy almost every time, but out of hundred refreshes I still havn't seen any ads of mine, ok just did about another 50 no ads does it synchronise the .txt files once and while and add the new ads? How much weight do you need to actually get an ads to show up? I mean like often? 50 or 60 thousand?
first off, you need to wait. after you have waited, don't refresh pages. it's a waste of your time and the user's bandwidth. instead, view their ad_network_ads.txt file and just "control-f" your anchor text
A couple of points: * What ever weight that you have, it does take about 100 hours for your all of your weight to be reflected in the network. * Just looking at a few sites you may have difficulty in finding your ads. Remember it is distributed on a percentage of your weight / total weight of the network. Statistically, it is very possible that a single site or just a few sites may not have your ads for days depending on your weight * Ads are cached locally and 1 new is served up every 15 mintues up to 400. Assuming that the site gets a view hit every 15 minutes that is. * I started out with just 1k weight a few months ago and it did help me out in my SERPS. If you really want to see your ads, check the MSN beta and you will see your ads if your ads have been in rotation for several week.
whew I was lookign at the text file, but i fiugured testing it in the wild would be more accurate someone out there is got 200+ request for one of their pages I was begining to worry if like 20k worth of weight for few sites produces no ads then .... It might be kind of tough to get in there
The ad network is huge... over 1,000 sites. So everyone's ads are going to be thinly (as far as an individual site goes) spread across multiple sites. Imagine if you could query AdWords for a random ad and then hitting refresh until you find yours. Waste of everyone's resources and you probably would never find it to begin with. If you MUST continuously reload, do it on your own site.
digitalpoint I hope you don't mind I just ran 5000 requests real quick just to see well the ads appear legit out of 5000 request my 12,000 weight site appeared 28 times, and my appoximatly 7,000 weight site appeared 32 times 5000 is a rather small sample, so i guess those numbers are within the reason
Uh, yeah I do mind. It puts unnecessary load on an already overloaded ad server, please don't do it again.
if you want to check out a huge sample, just grab the ad_network_ads.txt from a bunch of other domains