The Mysterious Missing TLA Ads
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Some of you who have been subscribed to my RSS Feed (subscribe) for a while now may have noticed that I had some Advertisements running at the bottom of the feed. They were personal ads, leading to the Forum, an affiliate program and lastly for my Hire Me page. They were all part of the Text Link Ads Feedvertising (advertise on feed) feature.
Since April 4th None of the ads have shown on the feed and I didn’t have any idea why they just stopped showing. I had contacted the support people at Text Link Ads (aff) as soon as I realized there was a problem and got no response. I finally contacted Patrick Gavin, President of TLA, to explain my situation and how disappointed I was with the lack of response to my queries.
Patrick did respond personally within 2 days that they were researching the problem, but didn’t have any answers yet. We communicated back and forth a few times, and the answer was that they had no answer. It seems that no one else had reported such a problem, but they would continue to research it.
It has been over a month since this problem started and I still haven’t gotten any satisfaction or answers on how to fix it. I decided to research it myself, looking for any clue as to what was causing the disappearance of my RSS Ads.
As I mentioned, the Ads showed until 4/4 and then stopped abruptly. What I did was load all my feeds in my RSS Reader. I went back to when they showed and started looking. Everything for TLA was downloaded and installed properly, ads show in the sidebar as they should and I even had an ad that was sold for an individual post showing.
Still nothing in the Feed showed. But, I think I found the answer.
Shortly after the ads stopped showing (actually the next day) I had installed the WP-Polls Plug-in. It uses Ajax for polls. For whatever reason, that seems to be interfering with the function of the TLA Plug-in that governs the RSS Ads.
I have deactivated the Polls Plug-in, I don’t really need it that badly. Hopefully, That is the Answer.
So, if all you RSS Subscribers would do me a favor and keep an eye out to see if the Ads start showing at the bottom of the Feed and drop me a comment or an eMail, I would be very grateful. Thanks.
Tip: Watch your Plug-ins, they may cause some unseen and unwanted problems.
Update: I just received an eMail from Patrick Gavin, President of TLA, and they upgraded the plug-in for this type of situation. He thinks it will solve the problem. I uploaded the new version right after his mail, so let’s hope it works. Keep an eye open please. And Patrick, thanks for responding to an affiliates needs, it is very much appreciated and shows how professional you and your company are.
Update II: IT WORKS!!! I just rechecked my Feed and it shows one of my Ads at the bottom. THANKS Patrick and team…
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