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Are you using an ad blocker? What pages does it happen on?

I had no idea. Thanks for letting me know. Should be fixed now :)

I was attempting to fix the problem that Firefox is randomly crashing for people and I guess I screwed this up in the process. It's soooo hard to diagnose a problem that I can't replicate!

It closes the first time you load the site and then it works after that? How often does it happen? Is it random? Please help me debug this since I am not able to duplicate it on my end.

Also ... it only happens when you're not logged in?

Almostbob: Are you using an ad blocker?
LastMitch: Windows or Mac?

I want to start running contests to increase participation in the forums. Anyone have a good idea?

Yes, so I see. I am able to duplicate this with IE7/IE8. Seems to work fine with IE9.

This is happening because we use jQuery's text() function to fetch the plaintext version. According to http://api.jquery.com/text/,

Due to variations in the HTML parsers in different browsers, the text returned may vary in newlines and other white space.

Does anyone know of a workaround?

Does it continuously happen or it only happened once?

Oooh I see what you mean. I am able to duplicate this problem in IE8 although it works fine in IE9. Looking into it ...

I've gotten a couple of reports lately that DaniWeb is crashing web browsers, but I can't duplicate this and don't know which browsers are involved. Can anyone confirm?

As far as I know, as of a year or so ago, the FF ad blocker does contact the ad server and just suppresses its output.

Quick way to test ...

Browse a handful of DaniWeb pages with our ad blocker enabled in your control panel. Then, reenable ads and browse DaniWeb with the FF ad blocker, and see if there's a noticeable increase in page load times.

Hi,

Thank you for your feedback :) Firstly, however, what "purple line" do you keep referring to?

What a lot of people fail to realize is that advertisers and publishers don't mind most ad blockers.

Most advertisers pay either each time someone clicks on their ad or each time someone views their ad. If you are the type of person who hates ads with a passion, and there's no way you would be interested in looking at it or clicking on it, advertisers paying per view would rather you use an ad blocker so they don't have to waste money on showing it to you if there's no way you would turn into a customer for them. They'd rather save all of the ad views they paid for to only be seen by people who would be swayed by them.

From the publishers side, an important statistic for us is click-thru rate, which is the percentage of people who click on an ad out of all those who have viewed it. This is a performance statistic that is used as a metric to determine the quality of advertising on the publisher's site. Of course, every publisher wants to be able to boast high performing ad units to their advertisers, especially when those advertisers are paying per view. For us publishers, showing ads to people who wouldn't ever click on them is just going to lower our overall performance statistics, and make our ad inventory worth less.

Now here is the …

The system has to think you're on a mobile device, in which the bottom toolbar is disabled since it doesn't display correctly on the iPhone, iPad, and other devices. We're built on the CodeIgniter PHP framework and use CI's built in mobile detection based on user agents:

$mobiles = array(
                    // legacy array, old values commented out
                    'mobileexplorer'    => 'Mobile Explorer',
//                  'openwave'          => 'Open Wave',
//                  'opera mini'        => 'Opera Mini',
//                  'operamini'         => 'Opera Mini',
//                  'elaine'            => 'Palm',
                    'palmsource'        => 'Palm',
//                  'digital paths'     => 'Palm',
//                  'avantgo'           => 'Avantgo',
//                  'xiino'             => 'Xiino',
                    'palmscape'         => 'Palmscape',
//                  'nokia'             => 'Nokia',
//                  'ericsson'          => 'Ericsson',
//                  'blackberry'        => 'BlackBerry',
//                  'motorola'          => 'Motorola'

                    // Phones and Manufacturers
                    'motorola'          => "Motorola",
                    'nokia'             => "Nokia",
                    'palm'              => "Palm",
                    'iphone'            => "Apple iPhone",
                    'ipad'              => "iPad",
                    'ipod'              => "Apple iPod Touch",
                    'sony'              => "Sony Ericsson",
                    'ericsson'          => "Sony Ericsson",
                    'blackberry'        => "BlackBerry",
                    'cocoon'            => "O2 Cocoon",
                    'blazer'            => "Treo",
                    'lg'                => "LG",
                    'amoi'              => "Amoi",
                    'xda'               => "XDA",
                    'mda'               => "MDA",
                    'vario'             => "Vario",
                    'htc'               => "HTC",
                    'samsung'           => "Samsung",
                    'sharp'             => "Sharp",
                    'sie-'              => "Siemens",
                    'alcatel'           => "Alcatel",
                    'benq'              => "BenQ",
                    'ipaq'              => "HP iPaq",
                    'mot-'              => "Motorola",
                    'playstation portable'  => "PlayStation Portable",
                    'hiptop'            => "Danger Hiptop",
                    'nec-'              => "NEC",
                    'panasonic'         => "Panasonic",
                    'philips'           => "Philips",
                    'sagem'             => "Sagem",
                    'sanyo'             => "Sanyo",
                    'spv'               => "SPV",
                    'zte'               => "ZTE",
                    'sendo'             => "Sendo",

                    // Operating Systems
                    'symbian'               => "Symbian",
                    'SymbianOS'             => "SymbianOS",
                    'elaine'                => "Palm",
                    'palm'                  => "Palm",
                    'series60'              => "Symbian …

Jake,

I think the best thing that you could possibly do (that would be incredibly appreciated) would be to report this as a bug to Kaspersky.

It's really that unintuitive?

It doesn't exist. Maybe it should. Low on the list of things to do ........ sooooo much to do! So little time!!!!

Welcome to DaniWeb! :)

It's just you who is saying something. But it's possible lots of non-registered members are experiencing the same thing, so that makes it a priority issue for me.

Can you open the page with ads disabled in your member profile?

Hi and welcome to DaniWeb :)

A lot of people blame the forums for taking too long to receive replies. The biggest factor, however, is how well you phrase your questions. We're a community of members helping members, and everyone here volunteers their time. So if you don't show any effort asking a question, people aren't going to be encouraged to waste their time responding to you. Long story short: the more in-depth the question and the more effort put into it, the better the responses you'll usually receive.

On average, it takes a couple of hours to receive a reply around here. Sometimes it can take a matter of a few minutes. Sometimes a question will go unanswered for some reason. It also depends on how active the specific forum is that you're posting in ... we have more experts in some sections as opposed to others.

Posts never get deleted. They remain on the site forever where they will hopefully help many future people as well.

What happens if you're logged out?

So where am I supposed to share some intersting stuff, for example I do have in bio list of books that I read and communities that I participate in, or recommend others to do so.

In the forums? In fact, there are already a number of threads here where members are sharing and discussing interesting books they've read.

LastMitch, what browser/OS is crashing? I'll look into it.

Does it just happen with one post? Maybe the poster typed it in as one massive line?

That's why it's called a short bio.

Does it work now, by any chance?

Double-click on the code as if you were doing a Select All to copy and paste it.

Oh, also, can you visit the page when logged out?

Hmm ... seems like an Apache 500 error. I can't duplicate it, so it's probably that you triggered some weird uncaught exception. The problem is I had error reporting disabled in production ... I just went and enabled it. Can you try again?

What do you mean you can't get to the second page? What exactly happens when you click the link?

Well, no, because we have less traffic due entirely to SEO issues. Getting traffic from the search engines is the problem. Once they're ON the site, the conversion rate of registering and posting is actually better than it used to be.

Yes, I'm not sure what Nick means. Waiting for an explanation ...

Simply, there's less activity with so much less traffic. Communities like DaniWeb flourish because of constant new blood being injected into the community. We don't have that right now.

Sanjay, members can disable ads in their member profile. No javascript for loading the ads is sent. The ad servers aren't contacted. Nothing.

With ad blockers, often the ad servers are still contacted, and the browser just prevents the display/loading of the ads.

You shouldn't be seeing the fading effect with ads disabled in your member profile? Are you sure??

They enabled ads just to see what I was talking about.

Hey guys,

Thanks for your feedback. Looks like they're not annoying at all so I'm pleasantly surprised :)

The only people who find them annoying it seems are those who already despise ads to begin with, and consequently have been keeping ads disabled in their profiles.

Those who don't mind ads in the first place and don't disable them seem to not have a big issue with the change.

So good :)

You should always be continuing your seo work.

I'm confused by your question. You're saying you lost ranking and want to know if you should work harder? The answer is yes. Always yes. Even if you are #1 it can always get better.

In the advertising industry, an impression is a view of an ad, and a click is a click of the ad. The CTR (or click-thru rate), is the ratio of clicks to impressions.

What do you mean by DaniWeb being "dofollow"? Not only do we nofollow all external links within posts, but signatures do not show up at all to guests (or googlebot).

I'm not sure ... when did Google Penguin go live?

Hi Techite,

Thank you for your response. I think you misunderstood my question though. I have multiple channels set up and they are set to enable placement targeting. My question is whether there is a way of knowing whether an AdWords advertiser is targeting an individual channel.

I can pull a report showing how many placement-targeted ads run in a channel, but I can't tell whether or not it was because the advertiser selected the individual channel, or selected to run their ads ROS and, consequently, started displaying in the channel.

Also, I know this was definitely true awhile back, but I'm not sure if it still holds true. If you change certain information associated with a targetable channel, all AdWords advertisers currently targeting that channel are automatically lost. They will need to reenable targeting the modified channel.

You need to uniquely identify the record ID in order to distinguish loading record 3 from record 4. Or, do you want to just go to findanagent_details.php and have record 4 automatically load 100% of the time?

AdSense is the best place to start because, firstly, they tap into a lot of other ad networks, and secondly, they are pretty good about filling 100% of the impressions you have, meaning that you can work with JUST them and be fine.

CPM rates (cost per thousand ad impressions) varies based on niche, but can vary anywhere from about $0.25 CPM up to $50 CPM. Expect to be towards the lower end of that spectrum. Then again, I don't know your site's niche and every category is widely different.

At an average CPM rate of $2, you'd need about 2 million ad views in order to make $4,000. On the other hand, at an average CPM rate of $10, you'd only need about 400,000 ad views.

Hi there! Welcome to DaniWeb :)

This should be fixed as of yesterday.

Since the day of migration, we lost half our traffic. It's had affects throughout our community.

You need an unbiased opinion from those visitors just passing by

Their "opinions" are gathered by closely monitoring site usage and statistics.

Hi,

Is it possible to tell how many AdWords impressions are doing placement-targeting (aka site-targeting) to a particular channel? I know that I can pull up an AdSense report which shows a cross section of a particular channel with placement targeting, but it's possible the advertiser is targeting the entire site and not just the individual channel. I'd like to know whether I can disable or modify a particular targetable channel without it impacting my revenue.

But it doesn't last for a few seconds?