Automatic validation failed

[jorisvdb]

I've placed the ads on my site but I can't get it validated.

The ads are on the main page
http://placex.be (-> links)
and all the game pages e.g.
http://placex.be/free-online-games/196/Free%20Online%20Games/Alien%20Hominid.htm

Do you know what I'm doing wrong or how to validate my site?

Regards,
Joris

[exam]

Do you have the ads on *all* the pages on your site?

[thebassman]

Yes... all pages. or it won't pass the spot checks.

[expat]

I did fall for this. It needs to be on all pages

can't see it on your links page for example
M

[vintageagain]

OK my site had 5 ads on every page. here
http://www.automotive-rust.com/web-resources
Yet fails Auto validation check. It workd fine on 2 other sites that use the exact same setup just 30 minutes ago. Reason ?

[thebassman]

And the url you registered is http://www.automotive-rust.com/web-resources not http://www.automotive-rust.com right?

[vintageagain]

yep bass...

Its the only part of the website that is php driven at this time and I can't figure out how to insert into html pages. It worked on 3 other sites just fine.

[thebassman]

Hmmm... might have to wait for Shawn to check and see why it failed...

[vintageagain]

Just failed on another site..

http://www.marinecoat.com/links/

Its a hit and miss work load today :)

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Added:
Ok doing some testing. I configured the links to run in HTML and not PHP mode. The links show either way. Just a modwrite thing and how the pages are created.... If I point to

http://www.marinecoat.com/links/resources.html
It FAILS while in HTML mode.

Setting the script to PHP mode and pointing to
http://www.marinecoat.com/links/resources.php
PASSES... its the SAME pages, just one shown as .html and the other .php

Either way just pointing to http://www.marinecoat.com/links/
FAILS the auto varification.

I' like to run in HTML to lose the ?cat=57 in the URL..
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More testing..

Pointing to
http://www.vintageagain.com/default.php = PASS

http://www.vintageagain.com/ = FAIL

Doing this also drops my weight points from 18,000+ down to 986 points.
It passes, but I lose LOTS of weight.. This site has over 4000+ pages

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http://www.stoprust.net/resources/resources.html = FAILS
http://www.stoprust.net/resources/ = PASS

Same type setup for all the sites. I have to pick and chose what workds and I lose weight no matter what.

Thoughts ?

[digitalpoint]

http://www.marinecoat.com/links/resources.php passes because there is only one page within that URL (the base URL). So you would get credit for one page running ads (I would imagine your weight will be pretty low).

Same with http://www.vintageagain.com/default.php

Actually, I just looked and all 3 sites are validated fine.

[vintageagain]

Yes it very low..

They validated cause I forced it to a single page. and Im missing over 100 pages when i do that. why does it fail when I use
http://www.marinecoat.com/links/
and
http://www.vintageagain.com/

Vintage again has over 4000 pages it's missing now. Lots of weight

[digitalpoint]

Not sure... if you set your base URL to those, I can check it for you.

[vintageagain]

Done:

One that passed
Username : stoprust
http://www.stoprust.net/resources/
Ads appear to be live on your site (as of 2004-11-07).
712 Total Weight

The same type of directory failed on these

Username marinecoat
http://www.marinecoat.com/links/
Site failed automatic validation as of 2004-11-08
136 Total Weight

Username autorust
http://www.automotive-rust.com/web-resources/
Site failed automatic validation as of 2004-11-08
288 Total Weight


This website failed too
Username rustbullet
http://www.vintageagain.com/
Site failed automatic validation as of 2004-11-08
18,000 Total Weight

[digitalpoint]

Spot checks fail on:

http://www.marinecoat.com/links/boating_directories.html
http://www.automotive-rust.com/web-resources/racing.html
http://www.vintageagain.com/web-resources/automotive_parts_new.html

[vintageagain]

Spot checks fail on:

http://www.marinecoat.com/links/boating_directories.html

No such page. I do not have a catagory called "boating directories" so I don't know were it's getting this from. If I did it was removed and doesn't appear now when I just tried to validate.

http://www.automotive-rust.com/web-resources/racing.html

Same as above..


http://www.vintageagain.com/web-resources/automotive_parts_new.html

You can't get to this page from the Home page < base URL> so why is it checking it ? I removed the link to the links pages to test validation. These are static pages not php and I can't get the code on it. Why is it checking a page it can't get to. A spider can't find it's way from the home pages to this directory anymore since last night.

[digitalpoint]

For the pages missing, Google knows about the pages (which is what it uses for spot checks):

http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:www.marinecoat.com/links/boating_directories.html

If you want to get it removed from Google's index quickly, you can use this:

http://services.google.com/urlconsole/controller

For vintageagain, it doesn't matter if the main page is linking to it or not. The ad network is for site-wide ads on a website. When Google no longer knows about the pages, it wouldn't be part of the spot-check.