Weird...PSA all of a sudden on forum/ but not forum/index.php

[fish04]

http://gossip.bluelaundry.com/forum/ - PSAs

http://gossip.bluelaundry.com/forum/index.php - Working ads

what gives?

[fish04]

Strange thing......

[fish04]

yeah...it's got me completely boffed. i guess i'll wait 'til tommorow to see if it's straightened out? doesn't look like i've had any visits from google today

[koop673]

The media partners bot will spider those pages individually - once without the index.php and once with. I would be willing to bet that when the bot came by and last spidered the root, that there was something listed in a thread title in that top ten recent thread list that tripped the stop word filter, because each of those titles appears in the html that the bot would have "read" for targeting.

Unfortunately, it could be a few weeks before the mediabot stops by again for reindexing.

[fish04]

damn...looking in my logs look like google bot made a visit sometime around 3 today. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

bah!!! is there any way to 'hide' them? hmm...it hasn't affected gossip.bluelaundry.com and the top 5 are displayed there as well

[fish04]

You could try the new section targeting and ignore that part of the page - but it only will de-emphasize it, and I would think that a stop word issue would probably still be triggered regardless of section targeting being used.

The trouble with stop words is that it can be a combination of things - ie. two threads and a word used in a forum title could have tripped it... or it might have been just a single thread that was enough to do it.

If the media bot had visited both the index and non-index version of the page at the same time, you probably would have seen PSAs on both.

[fish04]

OK I tried to get around it with a .htaccess in the subdomain folder (i dunno about other hosts...but each subdomain xxxx.site.com is in a folder) so i put an .htaccess in that folder with this





RedirectMatch temp ^/forum$ http://gossip.bluelaundry.com/forum/index.php"]http://gossip.bluelaundry.com/forum/index.php[/URL]
RedirectMatch temp ^/forum/$ http://gossip.bluelaundry.com/forum/index.php"]http://gossip.bluelaundry.com/forum/index.php[/URL]

forwarding the forum/ to forum/index.php and it seems to work for now?

[fish04]

OK I tried to get around it with a .htaccess in the subdomain folder (i dunno about other hosts...but each subdomain xxxx.site.com is in a folder) so i put an .htaccess in that folder with this





RedirectMatch temp ^/forum$ http://gossip.bluelaundry.com/forum/index.php"]http://gossip.bluelaundry.com/forum/index.php[/URL]
RedirectMatch temp ^/forum/$ http://gossip.bluelaundry.com/forum/index.php"]http://gossip.bluelaundry.com/forum/index.php[/URL]

forwarding the forum/ to forum/index.php and it seems to work for now?