Nastydollars - 30% of your new iframe links are 404

**SmokeyTheBear** · 12-17-2007, 01:48 AM

i suppose thats not so bad , if i throw up banners for your new promo i will lose 30% of my sales but i will get a 30% bonus.. thus breaking even kinda

, as long as i dont run the banners for longer than the promo or im getting stiffed

**SmokeyTheBear** · 12-17-2007, 01:50 AM

cmon people i know this isnt nearly as interesting as a contest thread that got me to throw up banners that lost me sales all day but show me some bump love.

**WiredGuy** · 12-17-2007, 01:58 AM

Yikes, thats not good.
WG

**SmokeyTheBear** · 12-17-2007, 02:12 AM

i think the problem is not all models have video trailers and the new iframe tool they built assumes that all the model pages have corresponding video trailers and they dont.

**SmokeyTheBear** · 12-17-2007, 02:16 AM

i realise its not a pressing issue for you guys but it means i will likely miss the promo because i won't know when it's fixed, but that brings me to another point..

i realise this is a stretch but....

how about just passing along ref codes to your 404

that would solve alot of hassles with this sort of thing

**SmokeyTheBear** · 12-17-2007, 08:49 AM

as usual nothing gets fixed.

if the 404 had my ref code i bet it would be fixed in like 5 seconds

**Lace** · 12-17-2007, 09:24 AM

Forwarded the message. Thanks, Smokey.

**nastyman** · 12-17-2007, 09:47 AM

workin on it

thanks smokey, you found a bug that is currently being addresed. send me your affiliate id to webmaster at nastydollars dot com and i will credit you for the help

also, as we speak 404s are being updated to track affiliate ids

thanks for the help

**SmokeyTheBear** · 12-17-2007, 10:34 AM

Originally posted by nastyman

thanks smokey, you found a bug that is currently being addresed. send me your affiliate id to webmaster at nastydollars dot com and i will credit you for the help

also, as we speak 404s are being updated to track affiliate ids

thanks for the help

awesome better than expected results... will do.

sorry to be so cranky i hadnt had my coffee

**xxxice** · 12-17-2007, 10:52 AM

Originally posted by nastyman

thanks smokey, you found a bug that is currently being addresed. send me your affiliate id to webmaster at nastydollars dot com and i will credit you for the help

also, as we speak 404s are being updated to track affiliate ids

thanks for the help

Great news I wish all programs would track 404's with affiliate ids :-)

There have been many programs that have said it is impossible to do this, but I never believed it.

**xxxice** · 12-17-2007, 11:02 AM

On a side note is the 404 carrying over the affiliate ids the same as if someone clicks the members link on sites. Not sure if this is still 404 or 403 or something. Anyways maybe that was the transfer of affiliate code that people were saying was very hard to do.

**The Sultan Of Smut** · 12-17-2007, 11:10 AM

Originally posted by nastyman

thanks smokey, you found a bug that is currently being addresed. send me your affiliate id to webmaster at nastydollars dot com and i will credit you for the help

also, as we speak 404s are being updated to track affiliate ids

thanks for the help

Nice touch!

**onno** · 12-17-2007, 07:01 PM

just for curiosity... are you going to credit all the other webmasters that didn't realized that problem, and got their traffic redirected to the 404 pages?

**onno** · 12-19-2007, 09:08 AM

hmmm i suppose no

**SmokeyTheBear** · 12-19-2007, 09:53 AM

Originally posted by onno

just for curiosity... are you going to credit all the other webmasters that didn't realized that problem, and got their traffic redirected to the 404 pages?

the nd crew are pretty fair guys.. there were quite a few 404's but in hindsight it looks like it prob didnt affect everyone the same , it was only if you were using the new iframe tool and only if you chose the option to link straight to the video trailers for each model.

If you were using this tool and got some sales just contact nd support and let them know and im positive they will credit your account for any suspected lost sales.

obviously most people weren't using this tool yet because it was brand new so it wouldnt really be a case for crediting "everyone" like when processing goes down or something, but i'm sure if you felt your missing sales they would make up for it.

**RobertD** · 12-19-2007, 10:00 AM

lol, that's funny. I'd just finished putting up a bunch of these when I saw this thead.

**onno** · 12-19-2007, 12:11 PM

Originally posted by SmokeyTheBear

the nd crew are pretty fair guys.. there were quite a few 404's but in hindsight it looks like it prob didnt affect everyone the same , it was only if you were using the new iframe tool and only if you chose the option to link straight to the video trailers for each model.

If you were using this tool and got some sales just contact nd support and let them know and im positive they will credit your account for any suspected lost sales.

obviously most people weren't using this tool yet because it was brand new so it wouldnt really be a case for crediting "everyone" like when processing goes down or something, but i'm sure if you felt your missing sales they would make up for it.

well, i dont mean credit all the affiliates, just the ones like you, that tried the iframes with errors... im sure there are more guys aside of you, and they didn't noticed it
and for sure the rest of people, that didn't got that problem, they have nothing to do with that :P

**onno** · 12-19-2007, 12:40 PM

Originally posted by nastyman

thanks smokey, you found a bug that is currently being addresed. send me your affiliate id to webmaster at nastydollars dot com and i will credit you for the help

also, as we speak 404s are being updated to track affiliate ids

thanks for the help

hmmm again just out of curiosity... how are you going to track the affiliate ids in the 404? is that possible?

**onno** · 12-20-2007, 12:25 PM

bump

**Rick Ross** · 12-20-2007, 12:28 PM

FAWK!!!!

IT WILL BE FIXeD sOOn, right?

**onno** · 12-21-2007, 06:36 AM

ya Rick, i think they fixed the bad iframes, they just not answering my two questions...

if they are going to credit all the people that used the iframes with errors and didn't noticed about it?

and how are you going to track the affiliate ids in the 404? and if that possible?

i feel ignored

**SmokeyTheBear** · 12-21-2007, 07:51 AM

Originally posted by onno

ya Rick, i think they fixed the bad iframes, they just not answering my two questions...

if they are going to credit all the people that used the iframes with errors and didn't noticed about it?

how would they know who to credit ?

Originally posted by onno

and how are you going to track the affiliate ids in the 404? and if that possible?

its indeed possible . i tested it myself to check , if anyone needs the code let me know

**xxxice** · 12-21-2007, 07:55 AM

Originally posted by SmokeyTheBear

how would they know who to credit ?

its indeed possible . i tested it myself to check , if anyone needs the code let me know

I would be interested in the code

**onno** · 12-21-2007, 09:20 AM

Originally posted by SmokeyTheBear

how would they know who to credit ?

I dunno, the code in the iframes is exactly the same as the normal codes? im sure the have something to track if traffic come from iframes or not, if not, anybody can claim they sent traffic to those iframes and they lost joins, no?

Originally posted by SmokeyTheBear

its indeed possible . i tested it myself to check , if anyone needs the code let me know

Im not sure about it yet, i thought that at the moment you send the codes to 404 they loose the ref code, if they found a way to do it let us know how it works, that would help a lot

**V_RocKs** · 12-21-2007, 10:03 AM

I smoke cocaine... and therefor I am far superior to all of you.

Carry on.

**onno** · 01-02-2008, 02:01 PM

Originally posted by V_RocKs

I smoke cocaine... and therefor I am far superior to all of you.

Carry on.

cool, im happy to see you enjoy smoking

**notoldschool** · 01-02-2008, 02:29 PM

Originally posted by nastyman

thanks smokey, you found a bug that is currently being addresed. send me your affiliate id to webmaster at nastydollars dot com and i will credit you for the help

also, as we speak 404s are being updated to track affiliate ids

thanks for the help

Nice.

**onno** · 01-03-2008, 06:21 AM

Originally posted by notoldschool

Nice.

yes it is nice, but they don't say nothing about the other people that used the iframes and didn't realize about the 404 errors... if they talk about that would be nicer, no?

**onno** · 01-08-2008, 07:40 AM

*cough* Bump

**SmokeyTheBear** · 01-08-2008, 07:47 AM

Originally posted by onno

*cough* Bump

not sure why you keep bumping this. as i mentioned if anyone is missing sales nd always makes good.

The iframes were only up for a day or 2 i believe before they fixed it , and the problem wasnt with every iframe . I can't imagine anyone lost more than a sale or 2.

It would be pretty hard to reverse track down who sent traffic to those particular iframes using that particular NON default setting ( problem only occured on the individual video page if selected )

nastydollars is one of the only sponsors i have seen that credits webmaster for sales during downtime several times per year, mind you not all sponsors have serious downtime , but not all sponsors are as big as nd.

**onno** · 01-08-2008, 07:53 AM

well, they can say that... its not that hard

**SmokeyTheBear** · 01-08-2008, 07:54 AM

Originally posted by onno

Im not sure about it yet, i thought that at the moment you send the codes to 404 they loose the ref code, if they found a way to do it let us know how it works, that would help a lot

p.s. i forgot to mention how the 404 thing works.

this is just an example but here goes..

first you drop this as your .htaccess

Code:

ErrorDocument 404 /404/four04.php

that will send your 404's to the php file.

this is the code for the php file that will detect the refid of the 404 , and record the broken url inot a database that can be checked to fix the error

Code:

<?php
$r = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$d = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$url = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
$broken = "http://$url$r";
echo "You were looking for this - $broken<br>";
$er = explode("id=",$r);
$se = explode("&",$er[1]);
$refcode = "$se[0]";
if ($refcode == ""){

echo "No ref code detected";
} else {

echo "Refcode is: $refcode";
}
$towrite = "$broken\n";
$yfil = "brokenlist.txt";
$gs = file_get_contents("$yfil");
$ne = explode($broken,$gs);
if ($ne[1] == "") {
echo "<br>This broken page has now been recorded to a database so it wont happen again, sorry for the inconvenience<br><br><br>";
$fh2 = fopen($yfil, 'a+');
fwrite($fh2, $towrite);
fclose($fh2);
} else {
echo "<br>This broken page has already been recorded to a database , it will be fixed shortly, sorry for the inconvenience<br><br><br>";
}
?>

**SmokeyTheBear** · 01-08-2008, 07:56 AM

ideally you would sen the customer to the main page with your ref code on it.

but for the example i just made it display an error message indicating the 404 has been recorded

**SmokeyTheBear** · 01-08-2008, 08:01 AM

Originally posted by onno

well, they can say that... its not that hard

actually i think tracking down who sent traffic to those particular galleries with that particular non-default setting would be damn near impossible. not impossible , but pretty hard to do.

**onno** · 01-08-2008, 08:23 AM

Hey Smokey thanks for the 404 code, thats pretty cool

about why i keep bumping... i asked something in a really nice way and they totally ignored and omitted the answer... so i just trying to see if at least someone from nd wants to say something like you said... but well, seems that they wont

so i suppose you (as an affiliate) are lot more helpfully than they are. Thanks man

Nastydollars - 30% of your new iframe links are 404

Nastydollars - 30% of your new iframe links are 404

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