@hexathane
Was the lucky guy who received the 3rd of 3 double up offers much earlier today, but he is the unlucky guy who gets his report last and i owe him an apology.
I had some headaches with this article and basically none his fault. There was 2 issues that caused the delay, and i would like to explain so all know about it and the actions taken to ensure it does not happen again.
There were 2 issues, as follow:
- characters in the title
- error in the HTML code for the link.
The article that i scrapped for him had a question mark at the end of the title.[FONT="] This resulted in most of the submissions getting rejected and we could not figure out why. Furst i thought it is because the article is to long 1,954 words, but nope that was not it. So after much head scratching and swearing we figured out that Media Wiki's and most directories do not permit special characters like : ", ', !, @ ,# ,$ ,%,?, *,( , ) ,+, = ,/ , \, | ,~ to be in the title.
Action taken:
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- [FONT="]I removed the ? from his tittle[/FONT]
- [FONT="]We recoded the WPSYNIT plugin to automatically remove these ", ', !, @ ,# ,$ ,%,?, *,( , ) ,+, = ,/ , \, | ,~ from any article that is being submitted[/FONT]
Next the HTML error:
Well that was my fault because i had 50 cups of coffee and when i copied his url to use for the anchor text i did not notice it was just www. and the http was missing. so his anchor text looked like this :
Code:
<a href="www.hisdomain.com">{His anchor text 1|His anchor text 2}</a>
when it should have been
Code:
<a href="http://www.hisdomain.com">{His anchor text 1|His anchor text 2}</a>
so naturally none of his backlinks stuck.
Action taken:
I stopped drinking 50 cups of coffee and had to go walk around the neighborhood for an hour to think about my dumb mistake.
The developer @Wickedguy gave me a earful for sending him 50 messages complaining about my problem.
In the end
In the end all worked out ok, and @hexathane received his report in good order with all the correct backlinks.
For the inconvienance i am giving @hexathane another 2 free submissions to use when he want.
I also thank @hexathane as the problem with the characters lead to a code update to avoid it from happening again and thus WPSynIT comes out better than before.
Also need to say thanks to @Wickedguy my fellow South African for the patience and help.
We all make mistakes, but learning from our mistakes is what will make us great.
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