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WE HAVE MOVED!!!!!
The downtime is over, and we have relocated to http://vs-ten.com, on our new, dedicated
server. Currently, outgoing URLs to the old domain are being relayed
(not redirected) from the new location.
All data except historical views has moved successfully. Credits for outgoing views during the
downtime should be posted to accounts on the new server by about midnight
eastern time. I will get
some of the historical (old views) data moved up, The only thing we lost was the
vs-ten-alert mailing list. We may add that back in, but I’m actually
thinking of another news-type section for hot topics and known bad
sites. Keep your eyes open, as we are
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Please change your URLs
I posted this in the news section,
but figured I should put it in the pipeline as well: It’s time to change your URLs to vs-ten.com
instead of vs-ten.varisearch.com. I
have code-redirectors running on the old server for now, so that the move
didn’t leave a lot of folks with broken links or empty interfaces. The sooner you change to the new domain,
the sooner you will see the bulk of the performance improvements. Main
site/on the net links VS-TrEx owners: Your edge-based ‘on
the net’ ads will change automatically during this week’s updates. Others: Please change every occurrence of http://vs-ten.varisearch.com.....
To http://vs-ten.com.... Outgoing
Interface URLs Right now, most of you have at least
a few outgoing URLs pointing to vs-ten.varisearch.com/Beta/Exg/Site.php… These need to be changed to vs-ten.com/Beta/Exg/Site.php… I have posted some SQL which will
work for VS-TrEx sites, and make the changes in the Site/Banner table
automatically: update SBTable SET
URL="http://vs-ten.com"+substring(SBTable.URL, locate('.com',
SBTable.URL )+4) where URL Like "http://vs-ten.varisearch.com/%" If you run this piece of sql
(either through the ‘DirectDb’ function, or using phpMyAdmin), all your
vs-ten references will be straightened out. If you don’t run VS-TrEx as your
traffic exchange, you can use this, but need to change the table and field
name: ·
SBTable should be replaced with
the name of the table that
has user site URLs in it ·
URL should be replaced with the
name of the field that
holds site URLs So if your database had a table
called usersites, for instance, with a field called adpage, the script would
read: update usersites SET adpage="http://vs-ten.com"+substring(usersites.adpage,
locate('.com', usersites.adpage )+4) where adpage Like
"http://vs-ten.varisearch.com/%" |
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Things coming up:
Now that we’re on the new server (and even with 250K volume, the cpu
has been steady below 0.3), we have room for some new experiments. Here’s what’s coming:
·
Better
report feature. We think we can add a table that will allow
us to provide surfers with the last few sites they saw on a given
interface. We will be experimenting
with that this week, to try and get more accurate reports. Better reports=better filtering to keep
junk out of the rotation.
·
Back-scanning. We will be
trying to add a scanner that reviews URLs being shown, to auto detect
flaggable things: Live agent, for example, can be detected most of the time,
as can auto-start audio/video, dead sites/404’s, and some redirection. I’m going to put a little cron job in to
look at sites in the past, and see if we can add some automation to the
filtering. We will be adding similar
code to our site tester, to see how much we can detect without tripping into ‘false
positives’.
·
Rapid-react
pausing. If an exchange goes down, and we can’t pull
pages, we will be putting in code that auto-pauses their interfaces, and
re-checks every hour or two for a response.
That keeps the network from showing sites that are down, and saves the
webmaster some credits.
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Very Important: Exchange
owners do your data entry!
We’ve had the downline builder and surf-reminder systems running
for a few weeks now, but I see that most of the exchange owners have NOT
edited their site information yet. Log in, go to ‘exchange owners/my exchanges’, click the edit
link on each interface line, scroll to the bottom and fill in the 4 new
fields: ·
Inner Desc.: Describes your exchange to other vs-ten members. ·
DLB Desc: Description for others to promote your site with on
their downline builder pages. HTML is
allowed. ·
Surf URL: If your site has auto/regular surfing, and your site
does NOT require a login: Enter the non-domain part of the surf URL for your
site. o
If you surf with http://mysite.com/surf.php?ID=1, you would put
in /surf.php?ID= o
If you surf with http://mysite.com/members/surf.php?usr=3 you
would put in /members/surf.php?usr= ·
Man Surf URL: Same as surf URL, but for a manual-surfing link. The sooner you put in your info, the sooner this can start
working for your exchange! Get to
typing! |
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Online classes/webinars
We have started a weekly series of
online classes for VS-TEN. They are at
4pm Saturday and Sunday. There is no
cost to attend, and we limit the total time to less than 90 minutes. The classes have 15-30 minutes of
presentation, and the rest of the time is Q&A. You do not HAVE to have a microphone to
attend, but it does help. ·
Saturdays:
4pm EST (New York, USA time): Intro to VS-TEN ·
Sundays:
4pm EST: VS-TEN Advanced information To participate in the
conference, you MUST get the conference software. It is available here. We have found out that Vista users are having problems getting
the software installed. You must choose "run as
administrator" to get the software to install and run correctly. This conference room is
managed by Xtreme
Marketing Resources and My Traffic Plan |
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Changes to the Pipeline
Yep, I have to repeat this one… we haven’t gotten the new logo
right yet. I’m going to try and get
this done before or during the server move.
We finally got the new logo done, but we’re still working on the new
format for the newsletters.
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