Link Not found but it's been added, troubleshooting tips.

Post by **jdoughs** » Tue May 03, 2011 11:53 pm

Sometimes you may get Link Not Found errors but you know the link is live (you've added it, or you've saw the link with your own eyes). There is a few things that could cause this that is not a spider mistake, but another error that you may be able to fix yourself.

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:
Code: Select all
```
<a href="http://www.SomeHtmlNotClosed.com/">Anchor Text 1<a>
<a href="http://theTradeUrl.com/">Anchor Text 2</a>
```
So it skips past our link and anchor, to close the a tag it's already on.
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 would estimate that a little over half the errors are one of the above factors, and if it isn't in there, it's quite possibly the spider or our boxes DNS.

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!

webdanger · Post by **webdanger** » Wed May 04, 2011 5:05 am

69778

Thanks JD

Post by **jdoughs** » Wed May 04, 2011 6:14 am

webdanger wrote:69778

Thanks JD

That is a Shakey trade, I think he was gone for awhile and lots of people mentioned the sites being down, I think they've just recently came back up, and out of all the trade/spider errors posted here, his sites are the only ones left erroring.

I posted in another thread that I was going to wait until tomorrow incase they were down, and just came back up, if so, I think our spider is still seeing the old dns/cache of them. I'll be checking in the AM tomorrow.

Axcel1 · Post by **Axcel1** » Tue May 10, 2011 10:07 am

Hello.

The trades get errors.
347238
327455
315561
296363

Axcel1 · Post by **Axcel1** » Wed May 11, 2011 5:04 am

Pls, look into my account Axcel1. I have a lot of link errors after moving to new server though all my links are up.

melisa · Post by **melisa** » Wed May 11, 2011 12:50 pm

Hello,
Pls, look into my account: melisa
I have 12 links error, all the trades are up.
this are the trades link error:
I can reach my site, and the cache is not installed.

344158
318846
308034
307854
288610
288600
288591
288572
288567

thx.

Post by **jdoughs** » Wed May 11, 2011 4:59 pm

Axcel1 wrote:Pls, look into my account Axcel1. I have a lot of link errors after moving to new server though all my links are up.

If you moved servers it will take a day or two (possibly) to update global DNS, it's most likely seeing the old server still.

Axcel1 · Post by **Axcel1** » Wed May 11, 2011 11:54 pm

jdoughs wrote:If you moved servers it will take a day or two (possibly) to update global DNS, it's most likely seeing the old server still.

I moved to new server week ago. Pls, fix the error.

z4r4z4 · Post by **z4r4z4** » Wed May 18, 2011 6:15 pm

Showing that links are not inserted (but I added them)

368812
368810
368235

diablom · Post by **diablom** » Thu May 19, 2011 11:12 am

Hi,

I have some errors with thumblogger blogs. All links are up, just linkspun somehow does nor understand them. Tried everything I know to solve this. Please help.

Trades:
332027
278362
228710
210838
44203

Thanks

withme · Post by **withme** » Fri May 20, 2011 5:24 am

Hi, check please my account
i have 46 link errors
my id: withme

Post by **jdoughs** » Fri May 20, 2011 9:45 am

withme wrote:Hi, check please my account
i have 46 link errors
my id: withme

Having some issues with thumblogger sites, there is a few threads here about it.

filthmedia · Post by **filthmedia** » Sat May 21, 2011 1:06 am

27275
21822

venril · Post by **venril** » Fri May 27, 2011 9:54 am

diablom wrote:Hi,

I have some errors with thumblogger blogs. All links are up, just linkspun somehow does nor understand them. Tried everything I know to solve this. Please help.

Trades:
332027
278362
228710
210838
44203

Thanks

This is an issue with Thumblogger not Linkspun, more on that here: http://www.linkspun.com/forum/viewtopic ... 6&start=20

Vesta1 · Post by **Vesta1** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:41 pm

Please check, all links are in place. thanks in advance.
368546
338681
224752
208180
108265
104093
14148
336

Vesta1 · Post by **Vesta1** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:15 am

Same story. Some people start stopping trades. Please Help!!

305622
232473
158640
118851
65147
49846
49846
43633
43014
38262
35195
24135
19881
10476
2823
302253
7661
261425

Thanks in Advance!

nccsite · Post by **nccsite** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 11:14 am

hi,

could you please check what is wrong with this one
390925

any trades from this my domain are not working and also domain shows zero in/out links in the links manager. I can not see what is wrong, please help.

Thanks,
Martin

webcamsex · Post by **webcamsex** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 3:00 pm

had in morning also some link errors, but after i clicked the green checkmark, it worked again.

besides this some other problem there is:
what i have seen is i requested a link
for anchor "sexcam", he did "sexcams" but was ok! why?

diablom · Post by **diablom** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:22 pm

366971

incorrect anchor, but it seems to be correct.

Thanks

juicylinks · Post by **juicylinks** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:08 pm

443534

Incorrect anchor but all fine...

lmk

cyberdog · Post by **cyberdog** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:37 am

Hello!

Could you please check this trade : 444660
Although my partner added my link on his site, linkspun bot seems not to find it.
Could you please check what is going wrong?

Thanks!

cucumber · Post by **cucumber** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:20 am

The same problem with incorrect anchor...

Trade id: 323576

juicylinks · Post by **juicylinks** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 11:34 pm

tradeID=443534

Incorrect anchor issue

AJNetwork · Post by **AJNetwork** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:26 am

http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=450308

blandos · Post by **blandos** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 9:32 am

Trade 454932 and 417143 seems ok, but the spider can't finde the links

greenguy · Post by **greenguy** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:33 am

I've got 5 of these right now:

554017
553985
550552
550172
548135

All on the same domain - link-o-rama.com - but I've had MANY other trades on that domain that are fine, so I'm not sure what's causing these 5 to not be found

Any help would be greatly appreciated - thanks!

wanknews · Post by **wanknews** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 9:51 am

Hello
This trades worked good, but now Not Found Link
Please Check this trades :
409582
409586
409587
416699

Thanks

wanknews · Post by **wanknews** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 10:42 am

Some more such trades :
436311
394225
409516
383642
295948
188055
187382
187287
411082
149750
147379
144927
144925
144533
136031
125440
124822
124820
122407
121421
121420
119160
49307

Post by **drocd** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:30 pm

wanknews wrote:Hello
This trades worked good, but now Not Found Link
Please Check this trades :
409582
409586
409587
416699

Thanks

You have errors in your links, you are not closing the <a> tag. This will cause problems.

Code: Select all

<li><a href="/blog/babes/" class="cat_item"><b>Babes </b>Brazzers</li>

Post by **drocd** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:30 pm

greenguy wrote:I've got 5 of these right now:

554017
553985
550552
550172
548135

All on the same domain - link-o-rama.com - but I've had MANY other trades on that domain that are fine, so I'm not sure what's causing these 5 to not be found

Any help would be greatly appreciated - thanks!

These are working fine it looks like.

wanknews · Post by **wanknews** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:41 am

drocd wrote:
You have errors in your links, you are not closing the <a> tag. This will cause problems.
Code: Select all
<li><a href="/blog/babes/" class="cat_item"><b>Babes </b>Brazzers</li>

OMG Thanks you.

Mindoro · Post by **Mindoro** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:59 pm

Having small problems with this trade:
Link seems online and fine for a long time already, but LS don't 'like' it.

http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=459800
http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=405619
http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=405607

Would be nice if it could be checked.
Regards

john1936 · Post by **john1936** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 2:44 pm

Hi

This is John1936. I have eight links that say they can not be found, however I went onto my site and saw the links. Nonetheless, this site is still saying the links can not be found. How do we fix this? Thank you very much for your help with this matter.

John

P.s. I am very new to this, I just started about a month ago. Sorry for any inconvenience. I am just trying to do everything the right way and I do not know if I made a mistake or not. Thanks again.

vrocks · Post by **vrocks** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:01 pm

Mindoro wrote:Having small problems with this trade:
Link seems online and fine for a long time already, but LS don't 'like' it.

http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=459800
http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=405619
http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=405607

Would be nice if it could be checked.
Regards

Looking into these...

On the first one... Your tubish site has an error on line 49 you have a center tag that isn't closed... Sometimes something like this can trip up the bot because it does massive amount of regex to look for people putting the link in a way that is hidden... Still reviewing it though...

vrocks · Post by **vrocks** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:45 pm

Mindoro wrote:Having small problems with this trade:
Link seems online and fine for a long time already, but LS don't 'like' it.

http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=459800
http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=405619
http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=405607

Would be nice if it could be checked.
Regards

In 99% of cases it is a problem where someone requested double spaces... XXX Porn in two instances above and the other is when you have errors in your code... The offending error on:
http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=459800

Is the banner above the link... MILF Mania... notice your Header for Recommended Link is a LINK to that banner... that is because your banner doesn't close it's anchor tag. Edit that banner. I will remove the spaces in the other two requests...

vrocks · Post by **vrocks** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:58 pm

john1936 wrote:Hi

This is John1936. I have eight links that say they can not be found, however I went onto my site and saw the links. Nonetheless, this site is still saying the links can not be found. How do we fix this? Thank you very much for your help with this matter.

John

P.s. I am very new to this, I just started about a month ago. Sorry for any inconvenience. I am just trying to do everything the right way and I do not know if I made a mistake or not. Thanks again.

I need the trade ID's so I can look them up... Look at examples in posts above for what they are.

Mindoro · Post by **Mindoro** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 1:30 pm

Could you please Check this one? Link Anchor wrong, but check of sourcecode (copy & paste the correct code) seems right.

http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=629559

Thanks

vrocks · Post by **vrocks** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 2:40 am

Special characters rarely end up working correctly even with copy and paste because your computer might not have the language pack and therefor your version looks right, but as far as computers are concerned, it is just a visually alike equivalent. Computers deal with spot on stuff...

Lets see if what he typed shows up here in the forum and you can try copying and pasting...

deutsche Sexchat MÃ¤dels

mzdynamite · Post by **mzdynamite** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:28 pm

This trade is not finding my link for almost a week now. any advice? My only example as others dropped me due to it

http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=618298

the link is in fact here http://www.dynamitexxxcam.com/links

Help?
Thanks

vrocks · Post by **vrocks** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 12:22 pm

mzdynamite wrote:This trade is not finding my link for almost a week now. any advice? My only example as others dropped me due to it
http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=618298

the link is in fact here http://www.dynamitexxxcam.com/links

Help?
Thanks

The link from link on this trade is: http://www.dynamitexxxcam.com/

It cannot therefor be on a /links page. It must be on the index page.

__PMI__ · Post by **__PMI__** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:17 am

please check trades

http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=235645
http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=99522

links are up (and was never down), but spider can't find them.

thanks!

vrocks · Post by **vrocks** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:52 am

http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=99522

I don't see that link up...

http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=235645

The bot doesn't like this IP address for some reason... Will notify the hosts and see if they know why...

__PMI__ · Post by **__PMI__** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:54 am

sorry, 99522 was posted in error, this trade is for dropping.

I meant trades
http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=159843
http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=235645

don't know why the IP is the problem, I have tons of other sites on that server/IP, all of them are passing OK while checking links.

thank you for your reply

vrocks · Post by **vrocks** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 11:57 am

__PMI__ wrote:sorry, 99522 was posted in error, this trade is for dropping.

I meant trades
http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=159843
http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=235645

don't know why the IP is the problem, I have tons of other sites on that server/IP, all of them are passing OK while checking links.

thank you for your reply

I spoke to Amerinoc about these domains and they said it is a domain name problem. That your domains entry in the DNS system is whacked.

Hi Jay, there is no DNS record on our side, however our resolvers cannot resolve it. Google @8.8.8.8 will, but with some additional flags in dig I see what is likely the problem:
dig lesbianpussylicking.org +nssearch @8.8.8.8
dig: couldn't get address for 'orange.a1websolutions.com': not found

That host isn't resolving, so our request to it to obtain the IP can't proceed. If they correct this I suspect we will be able to resolve it. I'm not sure if the error is reproducible but our bind resolving configuration is nothing special, and they are proper resolving nameservers, meaning, they do lookups as any other nameserver would, they do not have a preference to our authorative nameservers.

Not sure if this was one of your domains specifically, but the problem is the same with all of them that don't resolve correctly.

__PMI__ · Post by **__PMI__** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 3:59 pm

thank you for your reposnse.

however, my sites are not on amerinoc or a1websolutions, they are on a dedicated server at CertifiedHosting, along with 300+ other domains.

If "domain name problem. That your domains entry in the DNS system is whacked" is about my site, could you please explain a little bit, I don't know much details about DNS.

My site is tickletied.net.

Sorry for asking more details.

thanks

vrocks wrote:
__PMI__ wrote:sorry, 99522 was posted in error, this trade is for dropping.

I meant trades
http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=159843
http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=235645

don't know why the IP is the problem, I have tons of other sites on that server/IP, all of them are passing OK while checking links.

thank you for your reply
I spoke to Amerinoc about these domains and they said it is a domain name problem. That your domains entry in the DNS system is whacked.

Hi Jay, there is no DNS record on our side, however our resolvers cannot resolve it. Google @8.8.8.8 will, but with some additional flags in dig I see what is likely the problem:
dig lesbianpussylicking.org +nssearch @8.8.8.8
dig: couldn't get address for 'orange.a1websolutions.com': not found

That host isn't resolving, so our request to it to obtain the IP can't proceed. If they correct this I suspect we will be able to resolve it. I'm not sure if the error is reproducible but our bind resolving configuration is nothing special, and they are proper resolving nameservers, meaning, they do lookups as any other nameserver would, they do not have a preference to our authorative nameservers.
Not sure if this was one of your domains specifically, but the problem is the same with all of them that don't resolve correctly.

blandos · Post by **blandos** » Sat Dec 31, 2011 8:17 am

Please check this trade:

http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=652265

Link status is "Incorrect anchor".
I think it's a problem with the german "ä" im that anchor?

vrocks · Post by **vrocks** » Sat Dec 31, 2011 5:54 pm

blandos wrote:Please check this trade:

http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=652265

Link status is "Incorrect anchor".
I think it's a problem with the german "ä" im that anchor?

I fixed it by verbatim copying your own text from the source... However, this is not going to help him... You need to copy the text correctly for the anchor he wants because German keyboards are going to type it into Google that way.

ä
¤
The second star looking want is what I think he wants...

The Ã¤ is MYSQL interpretation of it.

cucumber · Post by **cucumber** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:07 am

Both showing me "Incorrect anchor".
www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=598741
www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=598716

vrocks · Post by **vrocks** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:53 am

cucumber wrote:Both showing me "Incorrect anchor".
http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=598741
http://www.linkspun.com/trade_view.php?tradeID=598716

fixed.. your trading partners keyboard uses a non-standard space character

RickDiculous · Post by **RickDiculous** » Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:15 am

I have about 40 new trade errors that have appeared in the last 2 weeks. All links are up, by they are not being tracked. Some idiots don`t bother checking if the trades are really there or not and deny stop the trades.

I'm too lazy to read the 5 pages. Is there a plan to have this issue fixed?