TextLinkAds “Ad Script Not Displaying TLA Ads”
by Sapphire (July 18, 2007)
Is anyone else getting weekly emails from saying their spider can’t detect your ads? I am, and every day I can confirm that I’ve had the same three ads running for quite some time on this site. Obviously their spider is screwy.
What annoys me about this is that:
- They deduct the value of the link from my earnings
- I have to waste my time replying that yep, it’s there
- You’d think after the first two times, maybe they’d flag my account as one that the spider is clearly too stupid to function with, and bother to send a human to look at it so I don’t have to do their work for them
- They don’t put your earnings back in until they’ve gone to the site and confirmed that yep, the links are there
- UPDATE: I totally forgot to mention that the whole time this is happening, which is usually 24 hours, your site is out of the market place, unavailable to people who might want to buy links on it. Not cool.
So if, heaven forbid, I ever take a few days off from this stuff, the spider will undoubtedly visit and report the links as broken, and they won’t bother sending a human to check until I get back and email them? Wow, that’s helpful.
You know, maybe a time when Google is trying very hard to wreck the text link ads market is not the time to be irritating your publishers. Just a thought.
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