I have noticed some things happening recently that lead me to ask some questions.
1a. If you are subscribed to follow WUWT via email, where you get emails advising you of new posts, are you still getting those emails? For example, a notice of this post?
1b. If you aren’t receiving those emails, are they in your SPAM filter?
2. If you are subscribed to WUWT via RSS feed, are you still able to read it in the reader of your choice?
3. Are you getting any sorts of SPAM, phishing, or “unsafe” website notices for any links that might be embedded in those emails or feeds?
Please leave answers yes/no in comments.
The reason I ask is that WordPress recently flagged WUWT as a high traffic site, and added extra advertising, for which I get a few cents per click. But, at the same time I’m wondering if that has come with a penalty in the form of a raised SPAM score due to that extra advertising.
As always, thanks for visiting and thanks for your support. – Anthony
1a. Yes, including notice of my Cheap gas post (more below)
1b. NA
2. Yes
3. No
One thing that’s odd. I’m getting notices on Facebook for new posts, but didn’t see one for my Cheap Gas post. Possibilities include it was a post from not you, FB didn’t like punctuation, didn’t like the word “Cheap,” or FaceBook is behaving normally. You get what you pay for!
1a. Yes, all OK
1b. N/A
2. N/A
3. No.
HTH
Expanding my pop-in:
I do not get email or RSS feeds from you.
Good luck with diagnosis.
– more ads means more risk of goofs by Google or the ad source, which could create repeat requests to load an ad when the first request fails.
– timeouts due slow servers or broken Internet paths (as can occur with DNS cache problems) might generate repeat requests but not in rapid succession, though slow response might motivate users to click repeatedly on an ad. (Southwest Airlines botched their code a few weeks ago – people repeated their request when the web page appeared to not respond, the system booked another flight each time. No excuse for that – someone failed to learn from history.)
– typically ads are targeted based on page content and perhaps cookies (hopefully you are not dumb enough to use them). I suspect WUWT is classified by Google as of a certain political stripe given what I call the “rude t-shirts” web site advertised by the woman wearing a blood-stained t-shirt (I’ve seen that several times, from well before the extra ads appeared.)
– many people are stiffening their defenses against Malware because of recent widespread attacks. Thus repeat attacks are more likely to be blocked now. (Cache poisoning attempts tend to go in salvos for several minutes, but I don’t know how they work – they are targeting cached DNS databases on local servers, but ESET detects them as an incoming threat to my computer.
– thus there is probability of more rejections of requests from odd and badly run domains that people might have email on. I’d avoid HotMail because it has been extensively used by bad people trying to hide themselves (Microsoft have alternative email domains), there are far worse domains out there.
Good luck figuring out terms of service and options from WordPress/Google, neither of whom IMJ have adequate quality of coding. Churning of code without thorough testing is a common problem in the industry, including at Google.
I doubt this can be blamed on MSIE, though it has shown inability to cope with defective code (your font case a few months back, and a recent case of graphics display I found on CA pages). Conceivably MSIE could respond badly to defective advertising code (IIRC Google was a suspect for complicity in your case of MSIE and WordPress interacting inappropriately). Beware Google is dropping support for MSIE8, thus for some people Windows XP (as MSIE9 will not run on XP).
And keep in mind that many many people do not consider Google trustworthy. There are alternatives such as Microsoft/Yahoo, but I don’t have a high opinion of their competence either.
Email notices coming through fine. No spam. Works fine.
All is fine on my side. No problems.
1a – Yes.
1b n/a
2 n/a
3 no
No problems with mail receipts.
Reading ok on tablet, pc and phone.
No spam
Keep posting Anthony
Best regards
Geof
No problems here. All working and no spam.
1a. If you are subscribed to follow WUWT via email, where you get emails advising you of new posts, are you still getting those emails? For example, a notice of this post? YES
1b. If you aren’t receiving those emails, are they in your SPAM filter? N/A
2. If you are subscribed to WUWT via RSS feed, are you still able to read it in the reader of your choice? N/A
3. Are you getting any sorts of SPAM, phishing, or “unsafe” website notices for any links that might be embedded in those emails or feeds? Not that I’ve noticed.
The hangs — after four hours of debugging, I wrongly laid it on Google, it is not. Is has to do with Facebook.
2. If you are subscribed to WUWT via RSS feed, are you still able to read it in the reader of your choice? Yes, no change.
3. Are you getting any sorts of SPAM, phishing, or “unsafe” website notices for any links that might be embedded in those emails or feeds? No, not at all.
Hi Anthony,
I do get your emails OK, but a few weeks ago, some went to Spam, and I opened them and said not spam when they kept reappearing rather than move directly to inbox. As far as other comments I don’t know. My policy if I don’t know the sender I delete, some keep reappearing and I don’t read them such as anti-nuclear and the get bigger than you were type spam. I enjoy your emails keep sending them.
1a. Yes
1b. N/A
2. N/A
3. No
1a – yes
1b – N/A
2 – N/A
3 – No
1a. N/A
1b. N/A
2. WUWT RSS feed has worked for a long, long time, but stopped working a couple of days ago (Firefox 15 on Windows and Kubuntu). Same problem with Bishop Hill RSS btw., RSS problem might be unrelated to WUWT feed?
3. N/A
Same problem as Carsten Arnholm. WUWT RSS “feed cannot be displayed (…)” since Friday 5 Oct. evening.
All my other feeds are working fine (I’m not subscribed to Bishop Hill RSS), so I’m just wondering….
Don’t know if any action was taken but the problem seems to be solved now.
Thanks to whatever/whoever fixed it.