Validation Issue

[yfs1]

Hello -

I finally decided to give the Coop network a try for one of my customers. I havent been able to get my page to validate and have tried as many things as i could think of. I have read through the forum and have tried some things when a post seemed similar to this situation but with no avail.

Here are the details:

Site: www.yourfavouriteshop.com/forum/
I placed the .php file here:
www.yourfavouriteshop.com/forum/ad_network.php
and the text file here:
www.yourfavouriteshop.com/forum/ad_network_ads.txt

I have a footer.txt where that piece of .php code that calls the ads is placed in. The way the forum works (it doesn't use a database) is that index.php calls up the different .txt files from a folder in the server to make up the actual html code that is shown.

I have Google ads on the bottom and I had thought the Coop ads would display just above.

If you go to the forum and view the source code, you will see the .php snip is in there. It just isn't pulling the ads.

Any thoughts?

(Just post if more details are needed)

[digitalpoint]

The page would need to be evaluated as PHP in order for that to work.

[yfs1]

They are php pages:
i.e.
http://www.yourfavouriteshop.com/forum/index.php
http://www.yourfavouriteshop.com/forum/forum.php?f=9

Or did that go over my head?

Sorry about that

[digitalpoint]

The code would need to be in your PHP pages (or at least a file that is evaluated as PHP) rather than a .txt file.

[yfs1]

That did it...Of course my initial weight shows a 2. I will look more into that when I get a chance :)

Thanks Shawn

<<addon>>

Ok, now that that is set. I just had two quick questions:

1.) I assume my weight is a 2 because the forum on that site is new and only the index page is indexed right now with a PR0. Am I right to assume that my weight will increase as the other pages are indexed? (Another words the main .html site isn't counted in the weighting, just those after forum/ )

2.) Is it ok to be putting the piece of .php code into each of my individual .php files that make up the forum. Putting the Coop code into 5 of them will be sure ads are displayed on every page. Is this the right way to do it or will I have problems in the future.

Thanks!

[chachi]

1) Yes. The base weight is based on the PR of your site and the number of pages the google API returns for your site

2) Not following you exactly, you just need to make sure the ads appear on all of the pages in the site.

[yfs1]

1) Yes. The base weight is based on the PR of your site and the number of pages the google API returns for your site


I guess where I am confused (and why I asked the question):

There is the main site:

www.example.com

where I am not running ads (It is run seperately)

And then there is

www.example.com/forum/

where the ads are running in the entire forum

Is the weight based just on pages that fall under "www.example.com/forum/" - meaning when Google indexes the subpages (forum posts) - my weight will go up?

I guess I am trying to figure out if the ads are worth it in this situation (everyone seems to report 20,000+ pages) seeing as how the grammer and capitalization is so bad?

[digitalpoint]

If your base URL is www.example.com/forum/ then your weight is just based on that folder and you would only run ads within that folder.

[yfs1]

Now that my pages are being indexed I have gone from a weight of 2 to 261 (a ways to go until the 1,000's everyone else seems to have) I just have a couple more questions now that I am getting used to it:

1.) Does someone have a little PHP cheatsheet with just the basic commands so I can seperate the ads a bit (code for spaces, <br>, centering, etc)

2.) What does the 1 to 5 weight refer to when I enter a new ad - Is that used to figure which one of my ads will be shown when they are called (A 5 meaning I want it shown the most?)?

3.) What is the qualifier used to check how many pages from a folder are indexed in Google? I imagine its a qualifier on the end of site:www.example.com

Thanks so much!

[digitalpoint]

The 1-5 weight allows you to allocate your weight between your own ads. For example if you had two ads, and one had a weight of 1 and one had a weight of 4, the 2nd ad would be displayed 80% of the time (between your ads).

The inurl: function should help ya.

[Patient]

I didn't realise that you could choose to run the ads in subdirectories!

Up to now I have been under the impression that the system operates on the basis of whole domains and sub-domains!

This seems to open up the opportunity for me to get more than 10 different ads by creating accounts at a subdirectory level.

Is the the case?

[digitalpoint]

Only one account per domain is allowed.

[yfs1]

i only have one set of ads on my domain as a whole. It just so happens I have limited them to my forum (all pages on my forum). I think Shawn is referrring to the fact that opening accounts for different subforums wouldn't be permitted.

Any thoughts on the basic php code to space out my ads etc.?

[Patient]

Just format in the code:

e.g echo $ad_network[0].' ';
or echo $ad_network[0].'<br>';

[yfs1]

OK, sorry about my php ignorance but I have this so far but have two problems

ini_set ("include_path", ini_get ("include_path") . ':../:../../:../../../:../../../../');
include ('ad_network.php');
echo $ad_network[0].' <div align="center">',$ad_network[1].' ',$ad_network[2].' ',$ad_network[3].' ',$ad_network[4].'</div>';

1.) How do I add more than one space? I have tried %20 but it just displays it as text.

2.) How do I center all the links, the way above is the only way I can get it to work which left justifys the first link then centers the 4 after that. I want to center all of them though.

Thanks in advance for your assistance

[Patient]

This should work:

echo '<center>'.$ad_network[0].'&nbsp;&nbsp'.$ad_network[2].'</center>';

where &nbsp; is the symbol for a space.

[yfs1]

Thanks for being so patient with me Patient.

Everything is working perfectly now.

Cheers