Enhancements to Bayesian prediction models for network location traffic
provide increased accuracy in web traffic predictions. The enhancements
include implementing user advertising target queries to determine
preferred edges of a Bayesian model, employing hierarchical data
structures to cleanse training data for a Bayesian model, and/or
augmenting existing data with new training data to enhance a previously
constructed Bayesian model. Preferred edge enhancements for the Bayesian
model utilize target attribute derived preferred edges and/or explicitly
specified preferred edges. Training data is cleansed utilizing tag
hierarchies that can employ parent-child relationships, ancestor
relationships, and/or network location specific parameters. New training
data can also be employed to adjust probabilities in a previously
constructed Bayesian model. The new training data can be weighted
differently than data represented by the previously constructed Bayesian
model.