I have a site on godaddy that has a section where you can leave your name, email and a message. Since adding this feature, I've gotten a few entries from randomcharacters-sitename#data-backup-store.com. Does anyone know what this is?
I've scoured the internet seeing what it is but haven't found much.
I have been seeing this also in subscriptions at our website since late January. They have been getting past our honeypot robot detection system which up to this point was working well. I don't know if it's related, but we're also seeing a flurry of email addresses with bizarre capitalization. We have been hand-suppressing all email addresses that look suspicious. Very annoying.
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PROBLEM
Visitors that come up to my site for the first time see an error as it didn't exist.
It's weird and makes no sense to me, as I can see and browse it properly. And never seen anything similar.
REPORTED BY GOOGLE BUSINESS
It was pointed out by the sales team of Google My Business. They were attempting to sell me some service but reported they were not getting into my site.
TESTS
I just tested my site at two different services (Pingdom and WebPageTest) in order to ensure that this "1st time visitor" problem was real.
And it seemed to confirm it.
It doesn't make any sense for me; I'm pretty much lost.
I had a really frustrating issue recently with Tweetdeck, a tool to manage multiple twitter accounts. Since we get feedback and support questions on Twitter accounts with our projects, it is MUCH easier to see all the information in one place. That said, I had a recent issue and couldn't find ANY help online. I was able to find and test a workaround though, and have decided since it helped me I should post it here.
First, let me explain the exact issue, so you can see if my solution might work for you (YES, I already have the answer and posted it below)
I know my Tweetdeck was working previously (as I had multiple accounts). Since some of the projects were going away, and new ones were starting, I removed the existing ones and started trying to add the new ones.
The twitter page would come up asking to authenticate, then after typing in the information, I would get a generic "You have been logged into Tweetdeck, please return to the application" in the new window, but when closing it, I would not be logged in on Tweetdeck with the other account (only the original one)
I tried NUMEROUS steps to fix this including some of the following (NONE of these steps worked):
Tried different computers (with different Operating Systems). These included Windows 7 and Linux (Ubuntu 10.04) and more than one browser (Google Chrome, Firefox, etc). I also tried clearing cache, cookies, history, etc.
NOTE: I also tried to contact both Tweetdeck and Twitter support, neither of which have ever responded to any question I have ever had in years.
So the initial question was... "How do I get Tweetdeck to authenticate with other accounts successfully" with the error "You have been logged into Tweetdeck, please return to the application", but the new accounts do not actually authenticate and I cannot use them in Tweetdeck.
After extensive attempts to find a way to make my Tweetdeck work once again, I found a workaround that has worked great for me. I am not sure exactly why this works, but I have a feeling it has to do with the difference between the authentication method of just Tweetdeck online vs. the Google Chrome App.
On a whim, I decided to install the actual Google Chrome App plugin (as I was running out of options). Then, when using the app, it succeeded with no problems.
While I have posted an answer that works for me here, I would appreciate any comments that might give more real information (not guesses) on why this happened. If there is something else I can try so that I am not limited to the Google Chrome App if I want to add new accounts, I would also be happy to try those possible solutions. Please make sure to read my question which covers what I have already done.
NOTE: Since I have a working workaround, if your solution will take substantial effort, I will probably not try it .
I am starting to get a little desperate: a few days (maybe a week or two ago) Yahoo API - YQL that was previously working correctly started returning INKApi error.
Specifically, I am talking about Yahoo Fantasy Sports (baseball) API.
I am definitely not the only one receiving the error. But Yahoo is not reacting to posts on their message boards, see:
https://developer.yahoo.com/forum/YQL/Fantasy-Sports-YQL-Console-returning-INKApi/1399927585884-7008ef4d-0696-4114-b789-1840b0f798ff
https://developer.yahoo.com/forum/YQL/Fantasy-Baseball-All-Star-Break/1405604995092-827c4ff0-8517-4814-825b-222345dc1a16
I tried to contact them through their contact form as well, but no reaction at all.
Does anyone have a solution for this? An idea about when (or if) Yahoo will address this issue? A direct contact to someone at Yahoo who could help?
Thanks.
I think contacting them is the only way so that they can modify their api and give you the developers what they wanted ..In my opinion we dont have anything to do witrh this..You must contact someone at yahoo..
See this link..https://developer.yahoo.com/forum/YQL/Fantasy-Sports-YQL-Console-returning-INKApi/1399927585884-7008ef4d-0696-4114-b789-1840b0f798ff
After more than a month, Yahoo mysteriously woke up and corrected the error. The API is working again (at least for me), so the problem seems to be fixed for now.
However, we should all be aware that their service comes with no guarantee and there is no way to contact them. So all developers should take this into account when trying to work with Yahoo API...
I've searched endlessly for answers, and I just cannot seem to find anything!
I use an app (Mac) called Hyperimage for my Tumblr blog.
Since the developer has completely abandoned this app (not returning any customer service emails, fixing this problem, ignoring a refund request via PayPal until I had to complain, etc.) I cannot figure out how I could possibly fix the API, myself?
I'd be very grateful if I could be pointed in the right direction!
Thank you!
I've been having problems recently with my site and Google. There have been a number of problems (robots.txt etc.) which I fixed and resubmitted my main page & related pages via WMT. that worked fine.
But since then (2 days ago) I've lost most of the links to my site!
We have a major affiliate that had a lot of links to our site and now they don't appear in
WMT "Links to your site".
We haven't received a warning mail about "unnatural links"
the links from the other site are alive (most of them to our home page, is that a problem)
Any ideas on how to fix this or what's causing it?
It's one of two things:
You haven't fixed your indexing/exclusion problems correctly and something is causing that problem. Check again.
If not, remember that Google changes which links it displays and which it does not display basically according to their whim and updates. It's worth remembering the following things:
Just because a link is reported in WMT does not mean it is a good link.
Just because a link is NOT reported in WMT does not mean it is a bad link.
Overall number of links can only be used as a trend. The appearance or disappearance of a site reporting links means very little in the grand scheme of things.
Affiliate links are generally not a Google favourite for passing value. It's possible that your affiliate got hammered by Google.
Have your traffic and positions been affected? Then you're looking at a more major issue. If not, it's just Google being Google.