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Testing Entrecard and this blog for glitch

Posted By admin on April 24, 2009

Ok, I got Matt Oxley’s attention with my last post. He and I have exchanged a couple of e-mail communications and I’m agreeing to re-test the Entrecard widget to see if indeed, Entrecard is still awarding credits for blog posts.

Here are the texts of both messages. I am reprinting them because they don’t contain anything that is confidential, and could be extremely beneficial to other Entrecard members.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Shari Thomas wrote:
Hello Matt,

As you can see, I’ve become incredibly frustrated with Entrecard. I’ve been a long-time member and feel I was treated very unfairly by the current team in charge.

I really believe y’all are on the wrong track, but until more mature leadership appears, you’re basically doomed.

I just checked my feed (which hasn’t changed since I burned it) and it validated just fine.

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/LetsDoBusinessWithRealOnlineCompanies

Please provide a screenshot for the past 60 days. Zip it up and send it to this email address as an attachment.

I wish you the best of success and I enjoy the banter on your blog. I often read it when I am checking out my Adgitize advertisers.

Shari Thomas
Beryl, UT

I found your problem shari…the issue is with the header of your site..it was not some big crazy conspiracy theory…

if you look at the header of your website you will see this line:
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" 
href="http://choicebusinessblog.com/feed/rss/" />
it should be changed to
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92"
 http://feeds2.feedburner.com/LetsDoBusinessWithRealOnlineCompanies" />
after you do that save the file and give it about 3 or
 4 days and you should see your credits come back from
 your blog posts.
this usually happens if you add in some weird plugins or
change themes or something in your wordpress.
let me know how that works.

Matt

As you can see, Matt chose to investigate the issue from another direction. He feels the issue is the link in my header is the problem. Well Matt, I just ran that very feed through feedvalidator.org and once again, it validates just fine, too.

Since I have about 10 years of electronics hardware troubleshooting and several years of building web sites, blogs, and analyzing scripts, I generally check things out pretty closely. In the interest of isolating the problem and perhaps finding a solution I am taking the following steps.

I am reinstalling the Entrecard widget so I am in compliance with the Entrecard TOS.
I will accept a very limited number of ads, none of which will be paid ads.
I will apply for membership into the Entrecard VIP Forum. I’ve purchased 1742 ads, more than the minimum 400 ad requirement.
I will continue to post to this blog (it’s the only one left on Entrecard) and track my credits.
I will report back with the results of this test, and I expect to see the powers-that-be, make clear instructions to their new members regarding RSS feeds, if needing a particular form of RSS feed is necessary.

Check back for results soon.