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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Joe, I’m not seeing any ads showing up on your feeds in Google Reader. Maybe with your next post …
Belle
Input by WorkingBlogger | May 21, 2007 @ 3:01 pm
Hey Belle,
I just updated the plug-in a few minutes ago as Patrick Gavin suggested. It may or may not be the Poll plugin, but whatever works is fine by me.
Thanks for letting me know where it stands presently. Hopefully, it will show on tomorrow’s post.
Input by Joe | May 21, 2007 @ 3:11 pm
I had the similar problem recently, and it does work again now
It’s good though, I do love text link ads. It gives me beer money.
Input by Rhys | May 22, 2007 @ 6:58 am
Hey Rhys,
Sorry, you got caught up in Akismet, You’re clear now…
I really do like TLA myself, and the income has been steadily increasing for me as well.
I like the fact that Patrick took a personal interest in fixing my problem, too. It adds a lot of credibility to the service.
Input by Joe | May 22, 2007 @ 7:59 am
Have they just released a new version of the plugin then? In which case I’m going to head on over to TLA and update because I have the same problem. I thought that perhaps it was something to do with using Feedburner but I see you do too.
Thanks for the heads up, Joe!
Input by Mike | May 22, 2007 @ 9:54 am
Hey Mike,
Yeah, as far as I know they just released the new version as a result of some problems people (including me) have been having.
It seems to be working now on my feeds. Hope it works as well for you.
We gotta look out for each other, right?
Input by Joe | May 22, 2007 @ 11:14 am
Just written a new post so fingers crossed the new plug in works!
Input by Mike | May 22, 2007 @ 5:40 pm
Mike,
I think you should be Ok. It works fine for me, so you shouldn’t have any problems.
X (fingers crossed)
Let me know either way.
Input by Joe | May 22, 2007 @ 7:08 pm
Yep - all works OK now. Thanks again for the heads up, Joe. I was starting to wonder what I’d done wrong!
Input by Mike | May 23, 2007 @ 11:37 am
Mike, I’m glad to hear it.
No problem for the heads up, that’s what I try to do, tell people about what I have found to help them out.
Input by Joe | May 23, 2007 @ 12:26 pm
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