Moody Validator NEEDS Stroking???????

Discussion in 'Co-op Advertising Network' started by allthingstrendy, Jan 24, 2006.

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    The validator keep taking my banners out of rotation because it says my site is not validating. The URL it provides is http://www.allthingstrendy.com/catalog . I have had the banners deployed on my site for months. I have not changed my site in many months.

    I continually click the "Validate/Calculate Weight Now" button and finally I get "Ads appear to be live on your site". Please don't say "google has cached....". My site has not changed layout in months. I can not find a cached page in google the does not have the banners.

    Every time I return to check my status (once a week or so), I am deactivated again. I am getting a little bothered about providing free ad space. Something is wrong... any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks,
    David
     
    allthingstrendy, Jan 24, 2006 IP
  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #2
    I just ran the validator about 10 times on your domain and it went through fine each time, so I'm not sure...
     
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    Thanks for trying.... however, I'm running it now and I'm getting the persistent "Account not not yet activated" on the same URL: http://www.allthingstrendy.com/catalog/

    David
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #4
    Yeah, I see it now too. Is your catalog generating static HTML by chance (rather than generating the page dynamically)?
     
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    My site is an OSCommerce PHP site. My limited knowledge is that it is all dynamic. Does that answer your question?

    David
     
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    Try adding this to the end of the ad_network PHP script (before the closing PHP tag): 
    echo '<!--- testing - ' . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] . ' --->';
    PHP:
    That will tell us at least...
     
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    That came through with a link. Let me confirm what I am adding:
    echo '<!--- testing - ' . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] . ' --->'
     
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    OK. I added: echo '<!--- testing - ' . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] . ' --->'

    as requested.
     
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    #9
    Hmmm... something weird is definitely going on with it. Although it seems to be validating now again, so can't really look at it until it stops again (for whatever reason).
     
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    OK. Do I leave that code there? Will it hurt anything?
     
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    #11
    It won't hurt anything... go ahead and leave it there and let me know if it starts being weird again as far as validation goes.
     
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    OK. THANKS! I appreciate your help.

    David
     
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    Me again.............. this problem is back. :-(
     
    allthingstrendy, Feb 6, 2006 IP
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    #14
    Look in the osCommerce back-end... I think it's under configuration. Do you have the caching enabled?
     
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    Since this problem is back... can you tell me when my validation failed (it shows today... but, that's because it validates when I log in). Is there a way to get an email when your site fails validation?

    David
     
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    #16
    The system automatically emails you when it fails validation (no way to turn it off).
     
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    Yes I do have caching enabled. Please don't tell me I have disable... I can't afford to do so.
     
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    This problem is back... things were going so well the past 2 months.

    Once again, the problem has disappeared. After many many tries. Guess I'll keep my fingers crossed.
     
    allthingstrendy, Apr 4, 2006 IP