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The links are already tagged with rel=”nofollow”. Google does not pay attention to this directive any further than stopping PageRank from being passed. The robot still “clicks” through the link anyway, following it’s relentless quest to catalog every page on the internet.

However, Google’s and Yahoo’s spiders identify themselves as “GoogleBot” and “Slurp,” respectively. It probably would be possible to implement a user-agent check that would disable the hit counter when Google or Yahoo visit.

It’s very likely the case, but the question is: how can it be stopped? Google generally doesn’t pay attention to any attempts to not follow a link.

Perhaps I could implement some logic to detect Googlebot and not increment the counter if it follows an ad link? I might be able to do that sometime in a future release.

If I get around to it, I may add a note about this in the readme file.

I’ve seen this problem before. (A few people here and there not being able to add new ads.) I figured it was something with the DB permissions…

What you probably want to do is fix the permissions so new tables can be added, then search the options table for the row storing the database version number for WP125 (something like WP125_db_version). Delete the row then reactivate the plugin. This *should* force the installer function to run again.

I’m currently looking into it. There’s been a whole mess of problems with the 1.3.x line, and I’m still trying to sort things out. It *may* be a PHP4 thing, a specific server configuration thing, or something else entirely.

If 1.3.0 works for you, stick with it until 1.3.3 comes out, which will *hopefully* work for pretty much everyone once I manage to find out what’s going wrong. (You’re not missing anything anyway, ~.1 and ~.2 were attempts at fixing the plugin for some of the people having issues.)

Theoretically, it’s not required. Once in awhile I forget that and don’t put in logic to account for older versions.

I’ll put a fix in the next minor release.

Interesting.

Could either of you temporarily replace your copy of GoCodes with this debugging version? https://www.box.net/shared/iullul5pzb

It will output some debugging info every time a page is loaded. Just install it, type a redirect URL into your browser, and save the output. (Then remove the modified plugin, otherwise your blog will have debugging information outputted at the top.

If you could post the information here, it would help with my debugging.

Do you know what version of PHP you’re running? Also, what version of WordPress?

This bug is being investigated. It seems to be specific to certain server configurations though.

Just fixed the error. Upgrade to WP125 1.3.5 and everything should be fine.

Well, I went ahead and made your suggested changes myself. Look for them in 1.2.7.

That would likely be the problem…

Any chance of you upgrading to 2.7, or am I going to have to code logic for 2.6…?

See here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/245855?replies=3

It’s not an available feature at the moment, due to the way the plugin is structured. It may be possible to enable a second widget in a later version.

Sadly I do… It’s a bug that appeared in the 1.3.x line, and I have been having trouble killing it. I thought I had finally fixed it, but apparently I hadn’t. (The bug doesn’t affect everyone either, it seems to depend on the server configuration.)

If you put one active ad in the error should disappear. That’s my quick, temporary fix for you until it gets sorted.

You’re running WP125 version 1.3.3, right?