I logged into one of my accounts, and I see 4 of my referrals showing 0 weight. I checked their sites, and the ads are there, so there must be some kind of glitch in the network (it has happened to me several times, ads validate but I show 0 weight so I click on the validate link and the weight shows again). I am loosing about 8k in weight because of these referrals, it would be a very good adition if there was some way of knowing the contact details of our referals so we can get in touch with them and ask them to check their account. Or else, there could be some kind of link or button which we could click so a standard email would be sent automatically to the webmaster. Any opinions on this, Shawn?
Probably not going to happen because of privacy issues... On a larger scale, imagine if the eBay affiliate program gave the end user's personal info to the person that referred them.
I think this seems to be quite widespread at this time, 0 weight API problems. Be glad your still validating fine for your own site as revalidating and changing API, or droppping www does not work for me at present, I would just sit it out and enjoy your referals when this glitch rectifies itself and you bounce back to full power!
I'm actually more interested in the glitch. I see this often, as well. Almost every time I manually validate, actually. I have to click a few times to get the right weight. This can be a problem if I don't manually validate every few days, as the auto-validation will sometimes set my weight to 0... Any idea what the glitch is? -- Derek
I've not been able to replicate the glitch with any of my domains or any other random one's I've tried. Does anyone have a base URL that they can replicate it with?
It's happening 100% of the time currently for "http://www.sensiblesoftware.com/"(copied from preferences page). -- Derek
I'm getting it as well on 3 different sites. I went to google to try and get a new API key and it said there that their servers are down at the moment. So I'm thinking the problem is on G's side right now.
Ah great atleast its not the co-ops fault, I hope it comes back asap though as I'm in an seo contest and If I keep my number1 ranking on msn for 24 more hours I will win £200
I've run it a few times, and the API always returns zero results for that URL. Does anyone have one that varies?
tattoos-by-design.co.uk after you unblocked it, it was 52k yesterday, I had it at 8k once tonight and then left it and then recently tried again and now its stuck at zero regardless of the revalidating or changing API.
Everything is stuck at 0 today, there must bee some kind of problem with the API. So, if you have a site that is showing current weigth, DON'T REVALIDATE!! I just did that and now I'm stuck at 0 like everyone else.
Go ahead and try it now... It looks like Google changed something minor in the Google API (not sure if it was accidental or not), but I threw in a work-around into the code.
Its a contest by a merchant who I promote on one of my sites, 7 days ranking at number 1 on either of the 3 main search engines. The contest is for 4 keywords, im going through each one individually. When I win for this one tommorow ill move onto the next keyword and hopefully Ill get all of the £800 on offer. Its really easy to win as the keywords are easy and MSN is easy to rank well on.
Shawn The zero weight problem is very big. I have several clients/referrals and my own sites that go to zero. It has been happening probably earlier than the latest fix you have just made - hopefully what you have done will fix it, but I still think that the solution below would be a good idea (added). Solution - can we please have a programming change on your end record the last value of weight if the weight goes to zero and there is an API on the account then revalidate say three times to try and get the weight back (like we have to manually do) if weight still not returned to say more than 70% of previous, then email accountholder This may be an extra overhead, but it will restore faith in the co-op that is getting rather dented at the moment.