Earlier today we put our new ad checking spider into production. The much needed upgrade is using up to date technologies along with verifying code and text of the ad. What this means is, if you publish an ad using the wrong anchor text or the wrong code, the ad is not going to be validated until it is published correctly.
Another advantage to our new spider is the advanced level of communication. Rather than just telling you the ad is not found, we’ll be communicating the reason why our spider was unable to validate the ad. We do expect a period of a few weeks to get the communication feature completely finished.
We do encourage you to let us know if you notice any unusual activity or messages being sent. What I mean by this is if we’re sending incorrect information or something repetitive, or just out of the ordinary, then contact support. This doesn’t relate to messages about ads not being found. If you are receiving an ad not found message, we request that you hold off contacting us until you have received more than one consecutive messages regarding the same ad.
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constant innovation!
Will the new spider also be able to id nofollow and dofollow attributes? Just curious.
Thx
MegaD
Nice job, NEO!
I hope the spider can actually find all the links on Mambo/Joomla & Similiar PHP Based CMS Based sites.
It has often been an ongoing problem with some of the links on my sites. It has often required manual checking to verify the existence of the link.
As long as the links are sidebar, they should be picked up like any other HTML link when using Joomla/Mambo or other CMS.
The spider’s ‘hickuping’ on my two blogs and still shows ‘publishing’, even though the links were put up within minutes of accepting the offer. I made sure to use strictly the HTML generated by Linkworth in case there was a need for ‘matchup’ like this.
Sounds like someone needs to train the spider better.
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