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Name: Myriam Ghent, Belgium (Zone 8a)            bonitin Jan 13, 2012 7:59 AM CST |
Dave, I went to the plant Consolida ambigua in the database to move it to Consolida ajacis which is the correct name as Consoiida ambigua is a synonym but got this irritating flickering spam ad on the screen! |
Name: Myriam Ghent, Belgium (Zone 8a) bonitin Jan 13, 2012 8:02 AM CST |
Eeek, got another one!   |
Name: Dave Whitinger Jacksonville, Texas (Zone 8b)           |
| Hideous! I removed those an hour ago but didn't get a chance to reply yet. I assume you're not seeing them anymore? |
Name: Myriam Ghent, Belgium (Zone 8a) bonitin Jan 13, 2012 9:41 AM CST |
| I haven't tried yet Dave, I just got back from the shop. I'll try it now! Thanks!  |
Name: Myriam Ghent, Belgium (Zone 8a) bonitin Jan 13, 2012 9:43 AM CST |
It is still going on Dave!  |
Name: Dave Whitinger Jacksonville, Texas (Zone 8b) |
Could you do a shift-refresh? It really ought to be gone by now.  |
Name: Myriam Ghent, Belgium (Zone 8a) bonitin Jan 13, 2012 10:00 AM CST |
It doesn't help Dave with refreshing, it seems to be another each time! |
Name: Myriam Ghent, Belgium (Zone 8a) bonitin Jan 13, 2012 10:03 AM CST |
It is the same with other plants in the database..I wonder if I am the only one? |
Name: Dave Whitinger Jacksonville, Texas (Zone 8b) |
| The ads really should be gardening related but I'm also seeing some that aren't directly related to gardening. I'm looking into this some more right now. |
Name: Myriam Ghent, Belgium (Zone 8a) bonitin Jan 13, 2012 11:15 AM CST |
| Thanks Dave, the last two ones apart from not being gardening related were not flickering but normally ads should be on the side bar not right into the plant file? |
Name: Dave Whitinger Jacksonville, Texas (Zone 8b) |
| Some time ago (a week maybe?) I started experimenting with allowing ads that are the same size as the image. I think it looks really good under the main image, especially when it's a nice pretty ad for something like Annie's Annuals (which often shows for me). I looked into this a bit more and I can block ads based on categories. So I just went through and blocked a whole bunch of categories and that should help a lot. It may take an hour or two for the block to take effect, though. |
Name: Dave Whitinger Jacksonville, Texas (Zone 8b) |
Here's what it looks like when there is what I would consider to be the perfect ad for the site: |
Name: Myriam Ghent, Belgium (Zone 8a) bonitin Jan 13, 2012 1:11 PM CST |
| Thanks Dave! I'll have a look at it later. The adds appearing in the middle of the page only happen in the plant data base, not in the forums, there they are on the side bar like they should be, but are rarely plant related in my case, maybe it has to do with me being in Belgium? It would be lovely to get only the plant related ones like in your example! |
Name: Dave Whitinger Jacksonville, Texas (Zone 8b) |
| I do know that advertisers can restrict their ads to only certain countries. That is likely why you're not seeing as many of the gardening ads. |
Name: Myriam Ghent, Belgium (Zone 8a) bonitin Jan 14, 2012 4:15 AM CST |
I think the problem is solved! Today I only get plant related ads in the plant data base!  Thanks for solving the problem! |
Name: Dave Whitinger Jacksonville, Texas (Zone 8b) |
| Excellent!! |
Name: Sharon Calvert City, KY (Zone 7a)        Sharon Jan 14, 2012 11:21 PM CST |
| The only time it's annoying is if there is not yet a photo of the plant in place. In that instance the ad appears in the slot where the photo normally is and if is a plant related ad, it gets a little confusing. I'm not sure if this will show for you but here's one example of a plant without a photo, not sure what you might see but here's the link: Cumberland false rosemary (Conradina verticillata) (can't do a screen shot with this iMac) |
Name: Horseshoe Griffin Efland, NC (Zone 7a) And in the end...a happy beginning!        Horseshoe Jan 14, 2012 11:48 PM CST |
| the link worked for me, Sharon. I see what you mean. I was taken aback earlier, too, when I was looking at "Old Man Cactus" and the pic underneath was a picture of a sliced tomato (the pic in the example Dave showed above from the "perfect ad" screen shot). It made it look like that cactus produced tomatoes. I'm sure Dave can fine tune things. Shoe |
Name: Sharon Calvert City, KY (Zone 7a) Sharon Jan 15, 2012 12:36 AM CST |
| I think every time you click on the link you get a different ad, but it made me a little nuts when it was an ad for a lemon tree where the Cumberland Rosemary should be. |
Name: Myriam Ghent, Belgium (Zone 8a) bonitin Jan 15, 2012 2:25 AM CST |
I was too soon to think I only get plant-related ads  But at least the horrible aggressive flickering ones don't show up again.. I agree that it must be confusing to see a picture that suggests a tomato producing Cactus, Shoe!  Sharon this is what I got clicking on your link;  |
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