Does the javascript code pass referrer? I am worried that ebay might ban the account if referrer data is not passed.
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All of my accounts were reinstated at $0.02 EPC yesterday. I'm optimistically hoping that goes up a little further for today's clicks...
Can't decide if I'm happy that they're paying anything at all, so I know I haven't been totally cut off, or if I'm still pissed for my EPC dropping 86%, but I'm leaning towards the latter.
Can't decide if I'm happy that they're paying anything at all, so I know I haven't been totally cut off, or if I'm still pissed for my EPC dropping 86%, but I'm leaning towards the latter.
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Enigma's solution to this is pretty elegant. One of my sites is using the Arthemia theme and any time an excerpt was being used the tags were being stripped. The excerpt showed the javascript itself but the post showed the corrected link.
After emailing with Enigma he figured out the problem. The Wordpress function the_excerpt() was stripping the proper tags out.
To fix this in Arthemia go to the theme editor and open functions.php. In the function named "custom_trim_excerpt" you want to find this line:
Change it to this:
If you're using a different theme and having trouble with the_excerpt() doing this I THINK you just add this to your functions.php file:
Enigma's solution to this is pretty elegant. One of my sites is using the Arthemia theme and any time an excerpt was being used the tags were being stripped. The excerpt showed the javascript itself but the post showed the corrected link.
After emailing with Enigma he figured out the problem. The Wordpress function the_excerpt() was stripping the proper tags out.
To fix this in Arthemia go to the theme editor and open functions.php. In the function named "custom_trim_excerpt" you want to find this line:
Code:
$text = strip_tags($text);Change it to this:
Code:
$text = strip_tags($text,'<script><a>');If you're using a different theme and having trouble with the_excerpt() doing this I THINK you just add this to your functions.php file:
Code:
remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'custom_trim_excerpt');
function custom_trim_excerpt($text) { // Fakes an excerpt if needed
global $post;
if ( '' == $text ) {
$text = get_the_content('');
$text = strip_shortcodes( $text );
$text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
$text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
$text = strip_tags($text,'<script><a>');
$excerpt_length = apply_filters('excerpt_length', 90);
$words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {
array_pop($words);
array_push($words, '...');
$text = implode(' ', $words);
}
}
return $text;
}Wow Sharksfan. Nice save. I was having this problem and was just going to change themes, this is way better, two second fix. Nice work.
Buy auction2post, install Amazon machine tags, use some other plugin to pull amazon reviews (I think there's multiple floating around here). Edit a2p template. Continue on...
Edit: Should be more in-depth instructions in the auction2post forums once you've purchased it, radio had a good how-to for amazon machine tags.
I have found myself wondering numerous times today why I am even bothering....
But it did work out nicely.
The mysteries continue....
Even after blocking bots (admittedly only from Asia) I was getting a few hundred clicks a day at a $0.01 CPC, I said fuck it, decided to let it go on autopilot till they banned me since I haven't put much into eBay aside from buying a2p. As of yesterday I got 350+ clicks but my CPC jumped (if you can call it a jump) to $0.06 for around $22 bucks for the day.
I also noticed that my reported clicks has dropped significantly, a day after their notice that they were going to try and address the bot issue. It's so retardedly unpredictable at this point that I'm not even going to waste the time to check the logs to see if the bots/scrapers buggered off or if eBay started filtering, just gonna roll with it.
I'm going to give it another week to see if maybe they can "average out" these problems. But as of right now, there is no reason at all to promote eBay because quite simply: there is no way to correlate work with reward. Work your ass off, get 0.00 EPC. Do nothing, get a .72 EPC. IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!
Yeah I can't agree anymore. It's bloody mad... and I'm not English.
This is actually one of those rare times when I suspect the surveys they sent out will show a very, very clear picture of the results they are getting and how many publishers they are losing.
Whether they'll be smart enough to do anything about it is of course an entirely different issue.
Whether they'll be smart enough to do anything about it is of course an entirely different issue.
Thanks for pointing out the survey. I just searched through my email and found it.
after a shitty OCT im on track to have one of my best months ever for this site.. some days at .67 EPC!! fing nuts.. it wont last though and it hasn't it dropped to .45 then down to the .2X range.. i think much like the days of varied ACRU the best i can do at this point is try to get targeted traffic and hope for the best..
Can you post the questions they sent? I didn't get one. I just heard about it from Radio's post and a few other posts I saw when I was Googling about this.