I'm in the same boat with my sites. I just had about 20 fail automatic validation, all of which have been working for months. For instance, http://www.australia-business-search.com fails. I upgraded the ad script as well to the most current, and ads do appear on the page, I just can't get validated.
You can't redirect your base URL... Titan:~ shawn$ curl -I http://www.australia-business-search.com/ HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Content-Length: 0 Location: /?f5a902e8
I'm not, at least I don't think I am. I just tried it through curl through 2 different servers and got: [root@littleboy root]# curl -I http://www.australia-business-search.com/ HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:32:00 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.1 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.25 OpenSSL/0.9.7a X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.1 Content-Type: text/html X-Pad: avoid browser bug root@nancy [~]# curl -I http://www.australia-business-search.com/ HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:31:19 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.1 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.25 OpenSSL/0.9.7a X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.1 Content-Type: text/html X-Pad: avoid browser bug
So it looks like it is related to this: http://forums.hostgator.com/archive/index.php/t-2368.html. I did in fact have this turned on for my server a few days ago. I wonder if there is anyway to do the protection without the 302 redirect.
To follow up, is the same issue happening with http://www.the-employment-search.com? I can't seem to validate it, but the Cisco FloodGuard has been turned off, and ads are on the site.
I'm getting this error: Ads not found on http://www.articlelookup.com/articlerss.php?type=2&category=92&PHPSESSID=fa1c10656281cc05932f404a25a8caea which is a RSS Feed page and of course does not contain the ads. They are everywhere else on the site. Anyway around this? -Quade
You can either block it from being spidered by Googlebot or identify it with the word "RSS" in the URL somewhere.