I thought about this a couple of weeks ago as a two-stage issue. First, you
could setup your weighting percentages and any leftover unused spaces. Then
you could create a memory structure to hold the next n number of banners
(100, 1000, 10K) and randomly populate that according to the weighting
percentages. This sounded good to me because you're dividing the load up -
the serving of the banners is accomplished by walking through the memory
array that is created and the randomizing of the banners is done
periodically when that memory array runs out. This was all in my head - not
actually put in practice yet! Just opinion so far. Let me know what you
think.
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Bob Hendren
BrainKeepers
E-Commerce - Internetworking - Information Systems
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Forbes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 10:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: banner ad weighting....
How about an array or look-up table. I did this successfully with a Monte
Carlo simulation I wrote to address queing theory. Was that a dry project.
Tom
At 10:01 PM 4/12/00, you wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>I plan to offer banner ads on our Fusioneers.com web site ASAP. I don't
>want to use any of the canned scripts from the developer's exchange for
>various reasons that I don't want to dwell on here.
>
>The way the banner displays are going to work is this....
>
>All Fusioneers.com partners are entitled to a free banner ad on our
>site. People who pay a monthly fee will obviously be given a far greater
>weighting factor than the freebies.
>
>So, our plan was to do something like the following:
>
>All freebie ads combined would account for 1% of the total weighting
factor.
>
>We would then sell off weights in blocks of 10%, 20% and 30% of
>impressions until the maximum of a 100% has been reached. The unsold
>weight blocks would display a "Your Ad Here" ad.
>
>So, in other words, when we display the ads, they will be called at
>random, but I want the weights to affect their odds of being displayed.
>
>Hopefully this makes sense. By the way, for the person who figures out
>the best solution, we'll give you a 30% block of the 1st month's banner ad
>weighting absolutely free as our way of saying thank you.
>
>---mark
>
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