Validate link screwed up today?

Discussion in 'Co-op Advertising Network' started by fryman, Mar 10, 2006.

  1. #1
    I have tried to revalidate 4 sites today, and all of them end up validating but with 0 weight, and it doesn;t change no matter how many times I revalidate.

    Is anyone else having similar problems today? :confused:
     
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  2. teamshop

    teamshop Plainsman

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    #2
    Not sure if it's related but the keyword tracker tool shows all my keywords being out of the top 200 but a quick check in google itself showed all is well. Maybe a Google API issue affecting both tools? I believe co-op uses the API to determine weight......
     
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  3. MKInfo

    MKInfo DP Guard Dog

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    #3
    I've been having the same prob for 4 days now.All sites validating with 0 weight.
     
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  4. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #4
    I've heard a couple people say the Google API is acting weird, so maybe related to that...
     
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  5. Caydel

    Caydel Peon

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  6. chiefshuddle

    chiefshuddle Banned

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    #6
    Yep, no base weight at all anymore.
     
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  7. daman69xo

    daman69xo Peon

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    #7
    Yeah, I got 0 as well. But I have been reading that weight fluctuates alot, so maybe this is normal. This whole coop advertising is just too weird, too difficult to understand the logic behind it.
     
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  8. daman69xo

    daman69xo Peon

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    #8
    Since google api will only give you 1000 queries, maybe we have over 1000 hits since the weight drops back down. Could that be it?
     
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  9. jfontestad

    jfontestad Well-Known Member

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    #9
    Yep, same happening here as with fryman. Hit the Validate button and weight dropped to ZERO.
     
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  10. Portes

    Portes Active Member

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    #10
    Happens to me too. Help!
     
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  11. jfontestad

    jfontestad Well-Known Member

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    #11
    No this is not normal.
    It seems like a problem if you ask me.
    I mean when you have sites that usually validate for 20k and then you notice now you have more pages in Google and want to see if your weight went up any and click on validate only to notice you get 0 is pretty frustrating. So from 20k to 0 is a pretty bad hit.
    Just hope it will fix itself or maybe DP can look into it.
     
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  12. Nintendo

    Nintendo ♬ King of da Wackos ♬

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    It's working for me....ack!! Droped!!! You do have your own 'Google API Key' right!!
     
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  13. drhfinegifts

    drhfinegifts Peon

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  14. Nintendo

    Nintendo ♬ King of da Wackos ♬

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    #14
    Only way around that is redirecting 404 pages to the index or another page with the ads.
     
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  15. drhfinegifts

    drhfinegifts Peon

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    #15
    Why would it be showing when that file doesn't even exist any more and hasn't for over a year???
     
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  16. drhfinegifts

    drhfinegifts Peon

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    #16
    Okay, the redirect took care of that problem, but I still don't understand why it was pulling up that URL.

    BTW, what is the drop down menu for to the left of your ad that has numbers between 1-15??
     
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  17. Nintendo

    Nintendo ♬ King of da Wackos ♬

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    #17
    If the co-op gets it, then Google has it indexed!!!

    It lets you give more weight to a certian ad if you have more than one ad.
     
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  18. ohcnetwork

    ohcnetwork Peon

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    #18
    I think this is related to the followings:

    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=63889
    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=64243

    The issue is discussed in other forums and blogs as well:

    http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/33433.htm
    http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/33386.htm
    http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/33351.htm

    http://forums.seochat.com/google-optimization-7/seochat-booted-from-google-72338.html

    http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ses-nyc-2006-day-3/#comments

    All these discuss SERP in regular Google index, but I was afraid that this was happening in API as well. My wild guess is that these two are related, but I'd greatly appreciate if anyone can comment on this, whether Google index issue and API issue are related or not.
     
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  19. fryman

    fryman Kiss my rep

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    #19
    It is just not normal for a site to validate and show an absolute 0 as weight, specially when they are sites that had a weight of several K's
     
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  20. Dazed_and_confused

    Dazed_and_confused Well-Known Member

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    #20
    same problem here. Sites that produced more than 10k, now produces 0k.
     
    Dazed_and_confused, Mar 12, 2006 IP