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Hi Uwe,
I suspect it’s caching when a bot visits the site. I’m not familiar with these plugins, but could you see if there’s a setting in cache enabler to disable the caching if a bot visits the site?
Ah!
I think we’ve sorted the issue.
Not sure what’s the issue is, but can you switch to the dedicated ebay block please (entitled “ebay feed”)? It doesn’t convert
&to&.&is the ASCII code for&. It converts it to this because&can cause issues being saved to the database (which is what you’re seeing). The ebay feed block stores the URL in another location so doesn’t need to be converted.Hi Jay,
For some reason you have links with & amp in them. The next character in that link is ;. What happens after that is that nothing else is being sent. I’m not sure which site is having the issues though, but it may be the site(s) that not generating any commissions.
You definitely have the paid account. If you’re generating commissions from some sites, then you will be able to generate commissions from all your sites, we don’t switch it off by a site by site basis.
Bah, sorry. It didn’t display correctly.
One had
uid=Auc5efb0a61c6c0&Another had
uid=Auc5efb0a61c6c0&You may want to do a search on your site for that one, as the ampersand is rendering incorrectly and throwing some errors.
Hi Jay,
We may have spotted something.
We’ve spotted a number of URLs from you that were malformed in some way, in that they had uid=Auc5efb0a61c6c0&, rather than uid=Auc5efb0a61c6c0& in them, which was causing errors on our end.
How are you trying to display the site URLs?
It may be that on some pages that these URLs are not displaying correctly. It doesn’t appear to be a plugin issue, but it’d be great to diagnose it!
We’re taking a look. We don’t expect anything to cause it (I’ve largely been on the same level, for what it’s worth), but if we spot anything I’ll let you know.
So, we do put a small amount of caching on the feeds. It’s about 5 minutes in total.
The latest version of the plugin – 3.0.2 – does also introduce it’s own internal caching (again, 5 minutes). So that’s what we see.
The answer to this, is – unfortunately – “it depends”. If you use a page level cache (which is fairly standard with WordPress), then yes it’ll cache the feed, as effectively you’re taking a snapshot of the page and storing it for a length of time. If you use object caching, then that only caches part of the pages.
I don’t really understand object caching as a concept, so cannot help you more there!
Morning Jay,
Sorry for the slight delay in getting back to you, I’ll let you know where we are upto with it.
The feed uses tool 10039, I believe, which identifies as the RSS feed. So yes it does show RSS feed as the tool.
We’re currently investigating if anything at our end has caused the earnings to drop off. I am fairly sure it hasn’t (link cloaking is pretty much a simple redirect). But we’ll let you know.
