As the title says I have hundreds of pages that don't have ads on them but my site still validates with weight. The pages that don't have ads on them are contained in a folder like www. site .com/folder/whatever.htm These pages have just been added, but when they get indexed I'm sure I will get tons of extra weight. I am an honest person, so I don't want to take advantage of the situation. Any help would be appretiated.
Your weight is calculated by the number of indexed pages so you aren't actually getting credit for them The way it validates is by picking a random indexed page using the API, if there are no ads on it, you get the email and your account isn't active. Long term, you can't get weight without ads on all pages.
Your validation will fail the next a spot-check is done on any of those pages. Nothing to do with honesty or whatever. You'll be out automatically. If you want to be in this prgram, you will need ads on all pages within the base url.
I was asking for a way to resolve the problem, not can I get away without ads on my site or will my site get banned for not having ads. I want to have ads on the site and was asking for input.
Why didn't you say so in the first place? Would be handy to know whether it's html/asp/php etc. (seems to be htm from your post but not explicitly mentioned as such). And those pages that do have the ads, what type are they?
Thanks Tops! my site is .htm based. The pages that don't have ads are in a folder are created from .php
Then you will need the htaccess from the HTML Setup and the passthru.php file as well and it should be up in no time. Change the passthru code if you want more ads.
I have a seperate .htaccess file in the /folder that changes .php pages to .htm if I ad the passthru RewriteRule command to that .htaccess the pages turn up blank. on / .htaccess AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .htm .html <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^(.*).htm [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^(.*).html [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*) /passthru.php?file=$1 ErrorDocument 404 /custom404.htm </IfModule> RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.myfloridahomesforsale\.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.myfloridahomesforsale.com/$1 [L,R=301] RewriteRule ^index.htm$ http://www.myfloridahomesforsale.com [L,R=301] Code (markup): on the /folder AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm .html RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /mls RewriteRule ^listing([0-9]*)\.htm$ listing.php?id=$1 RewriteRule ^search-([0-9A-Z]*)\.htm$ search2.php?id=$1 Code (markup):
Same thing happened to me and I got the same canned answer "Your validation will fail the next a spot-check is done on any of those pages."
What are you on about? That's not a canned answer, I just typed that myself (not even a Co-op moderator) and never typed that before. What are you trying to say with this post? I can't see how it has helped this guy out...
Well, I don't see any solution, those pages aren't detected by the coop, so I didn't bother messing around with them. Take a deep breath, tops, what's your problem? I'm just saying that I have seen that reply many times before.
You're lying because that's the first time that reply was ever typed. About the pages; As soon as G knows about them, the Co-op will know about them. If they're not on there then you're out real soon. Yes you get away with them not being there for as long as G hasn't indexed them. But that also means you don't get credit for them so it's a system that can't be conned. If you want more weight, get them indexed with ads on there. If you don't want ads on them, keep them out of the index (robots.txt). Nothing canned from me.
Don't take it so personal, man! I had a similar problem a while ago. My site, www.mysite.com has the coop on it. However, I have a folder with many pages on it, www.mysite.com/folder I thought it was strange that even though I didn't have any ads on the folder I would still be able to validate without problems, so I tried to open another account seeing if I could get some new weight from there, but I got a message saying that the domain was already in use. So, I am still baffled. I still don't know if those pages are being counted or not when I have my current weight calculated.
If they (/folder/) show up when doing a site:www.yourdomain.com search (API) then you do get weight for it. But that also means that any time now, the Co-op validation bot can boot you out. If they don't show then you don't get weight from them. Nothing to be baffled about.
You know what is weird, if I close the tags like it should be I get some weird message saying "this page has reached it's redirect limit" or something like that. This was the only way I could work around that error message. I know that .htacces should look like this. AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .htm .html <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / # this condition pevents looping RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} passthru\.php\?file=([^&]+) RewriteRule ^passthru\.php$ http://www.myfloridahomesforsale.com/%1? [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^index.htm$ http://www.myfloridahomesforsale.com [L,R=301] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.myfloridahomesforsale\.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.myfloridahomesforsale.com/$1 [L,R=301] RewriteRule ^(.+\.html?) /passthru.php?file=$1 [L] ErrorDocument 404 /custom404.htm </IfModule> Code (markup): But, like I said I get error messages if it's done right. LOL P.S. I still have not found a solution to my ads problem. If anyone has a big heart? HELP me!