Let's say you have 60k weight with 12 ads running. All ads are set to a weight of 1. As I understand, the weight you assign is such that you can increase the weight for one or more ads by setting them to 2 (or higher), meaning they are displayed twice (or more) as much as the ones set to 1. Is this a fair assessment? What I'm wondering is, if all my ads are set to 1, is that the same as setting all my ads to 5? If all ads are set to the same weight, then the number is arbitrary until you set one or mor ads higher or lower. Is that correct? I was confused on this when I started (and still am), so to be safe, I set all my ads weight to one thinking this might introduce them slowly. After a month now, I'm ready to make some changes, so I'm wondering if someone can share some good information on the actual ad weight settings. I've seen some remarkable results so far. I have moved from nowhere on two sites I've had up for several years to top ten results. Some other sites are too new to notice any effect yet, but my established sites have seen tremendous improvement.
"What I'm wondering is, if all my ads are set to 1, is that the same as setting all my ads to 5?" Yes, that is correct.
Yes. Say for simplicity you have 3 ads and 1000 weight. You set: Ad A = 1 Ad B = 5 Ad C = 8 Total = 1 + 5 + 8 = 14. 14 = 100% = 1000 Weight. Ad A gets 1/14th of 1000 Ad B gets 5/14th of 1000 Ad C gets 8/14th of 1000
Thank you crew and thanks Tops30 for the detailed overview of how this works. Please consider adding this chart to the FAQ if possible. I think it would be very beneficial information to new users.