Problems with keywords for Inline Contextual Ads

Discussion in 'Digital Point Ads' started by cyman, Jan 2, 2012.

  1. #1
    Hi there,

    A week ago I created my first contextual ad here and added some keywords like psd to xhtml/css, psd to html/css etc. The problem is that the software automatically trims out the slash "/" character, so after I click save I see the kwds change to *testing - psdtohtmlcss* etc. I'd need psd to html/css as many people type in this phrase. Is there any hack around it? Like HTML entities or similar?

    Thanks in advance!
     
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    cyman, Jan 2, 2012 IP
  2. cyman

    cyman Peon

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    OK, now you can see it in action above, I dont' want "psd-to-htmlcss" appear as link, but "psd to html/css".
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #3
    Have you tried using a space instead of a slash by chance?
     
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    Not yet, thanks for advice, I'll try it right away!
     
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    I'll use this post for testing, ok?

    PSD to HTML/CSS

    It seems it doesn't work.
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #6
    Hmmm... in that case, it's not going to work in it's current form. I suspect the regex is stripping out punctuation... Otherwise if someone wanted to link a word, it would not link if it was at the end of a sentence (if it was followed by a period). Or in the case of the previous sentence if someone wanted to highlight "period", but it was adjacent to ")" it wouldn't highlight.

    I'll see if it might be possible in a future version to allow an advertiser to override that behavior so it doesn't strip punctuation for them.
     
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    Ok, thank you for answering. Anyhow, the regex should strip out just punctuations related to senteces - ,.!?;
    Other characters should be allowed: -/() etc.
     
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