Here's a few ways you can check if it is an error outside of Linkspuns control.
- CACHE: Many sites (especially blogs) will use a cache system to display their pages. When you update a blog as admin, you'll often see changes instantly, but surfers (AND OUT BOT) will see the cached version of pages, ensure you've deleted or refreshed your cache. If it's the other user, you can view his source and see what day/time his cache was last updated and either let them know to refresh it, or wait a day or two for it to happen naturally.
- HTML ERRORS: Often a Not Found will occur from a HTML error. And often it is exactly like this. The link ABOVE the trade url/anchor is not closed properly, so the spider starts following the above link (which isn't closed) and finds the NEXT closing a tag, and basically skips over the added link. For example, this:
So it skips past our link and anchor, to close the a tag it's already on.
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<a href="http://www.SomeHtmlNotClosed.com/">Anchor Text 1<a> <a href="http://theTradeUrl.com/">Anchor Text 2</a>
- DNS ISSUES: Sometimes you may see your site, or the other traders site, but there may be an issue with our server seeing the site. You can check dns at sites like this - http://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/ and http://www.kloth.net/services/nslookup.php to see if there is errors loading your/their site from other places in the world.
- HTML REDIRECTS: If you got a link in the system that is meant to be found on http://www.findmehere.com and your www's redirect to http://findmehere.com, the bot will throw an error. I wouldn't recommend switching your redirect, but stop the trade and add the url properly.
I check and look into all trades posted here as Spider errors, if you think you have an error that is our spider please start a thread and give us the trade ID url. It is this url, you can get it by clicking View Trade, or the magnifying glass in trade list.
http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=2423
I'll check all posted, and lock ones that work (sometimes I don't respond but just fix/lock).
Thanks all and Happy Trading!