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by MichaelCrawford 4005 days ago
Link popularity in general, pagerank in particular is transitive. A link to a page with no ads will result in greater ad revenue from some other page.

That is, if I link to Alice and Alice links to Bob, my Alice links generates more traffic for Bob.

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Yes, makes total sense.

In my case, my pages are the equivalent of Bob's, they are at the end of the link referral line. Users create content on my site and link to it from their sites. If it were blog or article type content, I would think there's no issue putting ads on the content, but seeing how my site is a web tool/app, it seems like more of a gray area. There's risk I'll piss off my users. I'm trying to decide if it's even worth going down that road.