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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
1. What are we offering?
2. How much does it cost?
3. What made you decide to do this?
4. I can't seem to make the ads work on my site. Can you help me?
5. What kinds of ads are served?
6. Are there any unacceptable ads?
7. What character set is used for the ads?
8. How exactly does it work?
9. How do you prevent new sites from joining the network and then removing ads from their site?
10. If I offer more ad space to the network, does that mean my ads will be displayed more?
11. If I don't have any ad space to offer, can I buy my way into the network?
12. Why is there no charge involved? How do you manage to run this service without expenses?
13. I`ve just set up your service. Where is my weight?
1. What are we offering?
2. How much does it cost?
3. What made you decide to do this?
4. I can't seem to make the ads work on my site. Can you help me?
5. What kinds of ads are served?
6. Are there any unacceptable ads?
7. What character set is used for the ads?
8. How exactly does it work?
9. How do you prevent new sites from joining the network and then removing ads from their site?
10. If I offer more ad space to the network, does that mean my ads will be displayed more?
11. If I don't have any ad space to offer, can I buy my way into the network?
12. Why is there no charge involved? How do you manage to run this service without expenses?
13. I`ve just set up your service. Where is my weight?
- What are we offering?
The Rank1 ad network is a program for site owners who wish to offer the network ad space. In return, the submitted ads for their site are displayed across the entire network. - How much does it cost?
Not a dime. It`s completely free. - What made you decide to do this?
Seeing the amount of unused advertising space on the Internet, we realized that no one else was running a similar program. While anyone can put up 50,000 of their own ads on their own site, it’s a lot more worthwhile to put your ad up 50 times on 1,000 other sites. - I can`t seem to make the ads work on my site. Can you help me?
Please visit our forum for assistance. - What kinds of ads are served?
The system serves text links owned by other people belonging to the network. - Are there any unacceptable ads?
We will not accept gambling, adult, political, and pharmaceutical ads. All submitted ads are reviewed before they go live on the network. You will also find detailed ad guidelines on this site, which we recommend you read before submitting ads. - What character set is used for the ads?
Ads are served as Unicode (UTF-8), so ads in any language are supported. If your site’s charset is not UTF-8, we recommend changing it so that the Unicode ads are properly displayed. - How exactly does it work?
Ads are served in real time on the backend from a dedicated ad server. Once you sign up, add the website that you will be displaying links on. Choose whether you want the links on your site to be permanent or dynamic. Once you have selected which of your sites you want to display banners on, you will receive a code that must be placed on your site. This code displays the links submitted by other webmasters.
We use a complex algorithm to evaluate the weight of each site. Based on this evaluation, points are assigned to each user. You can then add more sites to your pool of links and assign weight to each one. The more weight you assign, the more often your link will be displayed.
More detailed information is provided once you complete the installation process. - How do you prevent new sites from joining the network and then removing ads from their site?
Sites are automatically revalidated daily. Accounts missing network ads will be de-activated automatically. - If I offer more ad space to the network, does that mean my ads will be displayed more?
Yes. Each user is assigned a weight factor that determines how often their ads will be served. The formula for the weight system is based on a variety of factors, including the site’s popularity, how many pages have been offered to the network for ad space, how many other ads you run on your site’s pages, etc. - If I don`t have any ad space to offer, can I buy my way into the network?
No. Sorry, but this is not a money-making venture for us. - Why is there no charge involved? How do you manage to run this service without expenses?
Of course it costs us money, but at this point, the cost of server resources and bandwidth isn’t much. If the ad network grows very large, then there may be real costs incurred on our end in order to continue running it. Should that occur, we may have to sell a very small portion of ad space to companies outside the network. There are no plans to do so at this point. Should it become necessary, we would only sell enough ad space to break even on the bandwidth costs. Again, there are no plans to do so at this point – only if the service’s growth causes us to exceed our current budget. - 13. I`ve just set up your service. Where is my weight?
You will receive your weight after a couple of days. Your site earns weight as the script runs. It will be automatically divided amongst your links according to the % you have assigned to them.