Big Troubles with Tracker????

I've noticed that since the new feature to track Yahoo/MSN was offered the tracker has gotten really buggy.

For instance, once I started using the advanced script everything kept timing out. I had to remove the script just to check Google serps. Then today one account I help with has gotten "stuck". I started a Check All for Google serps (no advanced script installed) and it made it about half way through and then stopped. That was this afternoon (California time).

I just went back into that account and it's still stuck. It shows a query running with 60 keywords left but refreshing the page does nothing. This is the same thing it showed earlier today.


Did I break it????????

 

Dream,

This has happened to a few of us. Quick fix, create a second account for all your MSN and Yahoo! checks and leave one for Google only, that is the 'fix all'

 

I have an account with about 600 keyphrases, then repeated for each of MSN and Yahoo - rather large.

I would take quite a while to delete all the 1200 MSN and Yahoo listings one by one.

And I am not keen on starting new accounts - then not have the history of the past year or so.

But I suppose new accounts is the best and start from a clean slate.

I actually have quite enjoyed seeing the difference between the three search engines - having tracking on all three on the same account.

 

Yeah I just had that problem today, looks like its trying to check google serps on my msn and yahoo script. (from the error it spits out) Cant check google serps now.

 

I had removed the advanced script PRIOR to running this latest query because I was already aware of the timeout issue. I guess what's happening is if you run the advanced script it trys to check Google serps, but if you run it without and you have Yahoo keywords that get's caught on the Google API.

I guess the only option at this point is to keep separate accounts. That's better than nothing though!

 

I just noticed that I am no longer able to add new keywords to this account. The option to select Google/Yahoo/MSN is greyed out in the add keyword box (for both bulk additions or single phrases).

What's up with that...

 

Okay, that makes sense. I can still use it then it just adds Google on auto.

Any possibility of updating the script to avoid the troubles so many of us are having? I have absolutely no php skills to try and hack the thing myself.

 

Warning: file_get_contents(<<URL TO MY MSN AND YAHOO PHP>>?se=g&d=100&l=9999&q=photo+community&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.safetycorridor.com&key=<<GOOGLE API KEY>>): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in /home/.sites/28/site1/web/tools/keywords/functions.php on line 111

Code (markup):

If you havent seen this already DigitalPoint (obviously a few things edited)

 

This was mentioned in one of the other threads on this same subject.

I had been having the problem for several day. What I did in the end was removed my Google API from my preference setup. When you try to save you get an error message. I then pasted the API back in and it has worked perfectly ever since -- ever since being the last two days.

 

A couple of my results on the tracker have totally lost position. I thought I was just having bad luck until I entered Kirkcaldy on Google and saw my site was still there. They seem to go back up every now and then.

 

stin, i get a similar message..but different line number

HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in /home/.sites/28/site1/web/tools/keywords/functions.php on line 315

wouldn't this be on shawn's server?

 

shawn it looks like its just tryin to check the google results at my msnyahoo script. Any luck finding that bug?

 

I removed my msn and yahoo page from the prefs and google works fine...

 

just added it back in, failure

 

interesting, whats the reason it does that? Only other obvious thing I can think of is API keys getting banned or something? Or certain IPs getting banned from the API...