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Google API Key/Calculating Own Weight

Discussion in 'Co-op Advertising Network' started by digitalpoint, Nov 26, 2004.

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    Under Edit Settings, you can now enter your own Google API key. If you do, you will have the option to automatically recalculate your weight if you want.
     
    digitalpoint, Nov 26, 2004 IP
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    very cool! shawn, you rock!
     
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    I Validate/Calculate Weight for one of my slave accounts [sellingjournaldotcom] and everything updated fine except for the weight in the Master account [resalebrokerdotcom]. :confused:
     
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  4. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    When weight is recalculated for a site, it takes up to an hour for the new weight to be applied to the network.
     
    digitalpoint, Nov 26, 2004 IP
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    ResaleBroker Active Member

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    Thanks Shawn!
     
    ResaleBroker, Nov 26, 2004 IP
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    Great new feature. Thanks Shawn!
     
    Cardplayer, Nov 27, 2004 IP
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    Yeah thanks for this, it makes altering ad settings on your site (e.g. adding more ads on the page) easier because you can see the results of it much quicker.
     
    blueuniverse, Nov 27, 2004 IP
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    Shawn why when doing this would my weight shift between 9k, 27k and 42k.

    Between say 10 revalidations 27k will come out 50% of the time, 9k 30% of the time and 42k 20% of the time.

    I assume this is because it picks on a page and validates based on that page? Why would it differ so drastically?
     
    Sven, Nov 28, 2004 IP
  9. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Maybe the main page has multiple ads, and the page it picks to validate does not have the same number of ads. It will base it on the least number of ads found. For example, if you have 5 on the main and 2 on the one it happened to validate, you get credit for 2.
     
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    Well just did self val and got the above message and know have no weight the site has never failed before

    Think I need a little help as now at 0

    www.fishing-forum.info
     
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  11. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Does it say what page it can't find ads on when you try to validate?
     
    digitalpoint, Nov 28, 2004 IP
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    Sorry Shawn did it a couple of more time and got my weight back :p

    But as a sided note it did not say any pages - thanks
     
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  13. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    The ads are not in those pages, because those pages are redirecting to a different (login) page.
     
    digitalpoint, Nov 28, 2004 IP
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    Same thing happened to me. I got really strange results with the manual validate. One click it display "error - ads not on page..." 0 weight, next click it validated and all my weight is back?! One click again "error -ads not on page.." 0 weight, few more clicks, it validated just fine all my weight is back again!? I checked the error pages and it does show the ads, so I don't understand what's going on...

    I think I'll just leave leave the manual validate alone for now on.. :D
     
    maha, Nov 28, 2004 IP
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    Isn't that kind of a flaw if people can not pass validation, then keep revalidating until it passes? It would indicate that people don't have ads on all of their pages, but are getting credit for all of them...
     
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    My site have been validated and has passed every validation since I signed up 2 month ago.
     
    maha, Nov 28, 2004 IP
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    I would imagine that Shawn will still be doing intermittent spot checks and it would be fairly easy to programmatically flag those sites who revalidate until it hits their 'five ad' page. As always though there will be someone who tries it!

    Mick
     
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    How do I solve this problem then? I have a couple of pages that have no ads as they are printer friendly pages. If the random validation happens to pick up those pages, that does mean my weight gets set to 0 until the next validation? Does that mean I have to do manual validation myself every couple of days?
     
    mudnik, Dec 6, 2004 IP
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Yes since in order to be in the ad network, you would need ads on all pages that Google knows about.
     
    digitalpoint, Dec 6, 2004 IP
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    hmmm.. would such revalidation be illegal?
    I have some printer friendly pages in google index that does not have the footer; thus the ads are not shown.
     
    mudnik, Dec 8, 2004 IP
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