Holy crap..

Discussion in 'Co-op Advertising Network' started by Josh, Jan 27, 2005.

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  1. #1
    Alright, this is just stupid.. it wants me to put the ads on my RSS feed! How the heck am I supposed to do that :p


    This is to let you know that during a revalidation process of your site, co-op ad network ads were not found on the following page:
    http://www.thejosher.com/archives/2004/12/31/free-internet-voicemail/feed/

    Your ads have been taken out of the rotation until it has been corrected. You can revalidate your site manually by logging into http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/ad-network/

    If you need any assistance, you can visit the forum at http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34 (do not reply to this email, as it is not read by anyone).


    There is no way for me to put the ads on my XML feeds..


    Shaw?!?!?


    Josh
     
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  2. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    #2
    Three options.

    1) Get ads on the page mentioned.
    2) Get page mentioned out of the Google index.
    3) Get page mentioned out of the base-url tree.
     
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  3. Josh

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    #3
    1 is impossible, the page mentioned is an RSS feed, and there is no way I could put the HTML ads on it without making it compltely unusable for RSS readers.

    2 is also pretty much impossible, since I think I would have to deny each pages feed using robots.txt, and that would be silly since I would have to add one for each blog entry.

    (3) Base URL is thejosher.com/ so I can't it out of base ;)


    I think what would be better would be for shawn to code it so that files sent as text/rss wont be included.


    Josh
     
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  4. Josh

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    So, any chance Shawn can fix this, or I am just stuck out of the coop :(


    Josh
     
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  5. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #5
    The problem is there is nothing unique within your URL that it could key on.
     
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  6. Josh

    Josh Peon

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    So what would you suggest I do?

    Is there some way for you to set it so it would ignore all /feed/ directorys, since they are the standard for RSS in Wordpress.


    Josh
     
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  7. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    No, sorry... it's possible, but it would then remove anything that contains the word "feed" in any site. If you make it something that shows it's an RSS feed, then it would be possible... like use "RSS2" or something instead of "feed".
     
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  8. nevetS

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    so for future reference a file called rss2.xml, index.rdf, atom.xml, rsd.xml, or index.xml would not be a problem?

    These are the default Movable Type names... (and they are all in the root directory)
     
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  9. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #9
    Yeah, those are fine.
     
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    Just validate your site manually and if it doesn't validate click it again. It looks for random pages in your site and will likely pick a page that does have the ads on it.
     
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    actually, when it finds a page that doesn't validate, it keeps on trying to validate that page before moving forward. It's random pages until it finds one that doesn't work.
     
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