Getting YPN to target ads on pages with GET parameters

[Setec]

I'm having a hell of a time getting YPN to shop showing Run-of-Network ads on my pages like

http://www.mysite.com/my-topic-name.php?source=MSN

. The regular URL

http://www.mysite.com/my-topic-name.php

targets fine, but the one with a parameter keeps showing RON ads.

This is giving me big problems as I try to add and track new PPC sources.

I thought it was just forgetting its targeting on pages that hadn't been visited for a while, so I wrote a script to visit all my pages once a day and load my ads, prompting Yahoo to re-spider them. That doesn't seem to have worked at all.

Anyone have any ideas? Has anyone else run into this problem?

The next thing I'll try is using mod_rewrite to make the pages look like plain HTML... I'll post how it goes.

 

[shaggz]

Do the mod_rewrite to work with urls like:

[URL]http://www.mysite.com/MSN/my-topic-name.php[/URL]

 

[Setec]

Thanks! That works perfectly.

For anyone else wondering about the specifics, here's the code to stick in the .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(MSN|YSM|ADW|LookSmart)/([A-Za-z\-]*\.php)$ $2?source=$1

That'll send /MSN/your-page-name.php to your-page-name.php?source=MSN (or YSM or ADW, etc).