The links below aren't working for me. I've emailed the affilate I'm working with (SunSpotWeb) and they say the links work fine! For me, they either go no where or link to some other affilate URL.
AND... I find that http://linksynergy.com is redirected to Link Share which is different affiliate company.
So... is it me?? Is it my computer... browser... what??? I cleaned out my cookies, temp files, etc and still the link aren't doing what they are supposed to do!
http://linksynergy.com = "Link Share" link........Yes, that is correct. That can mess you up when trying to fix a bad link.
Check your original link, it was synergy not share. I'm not sure they do it that way, but I think it has to do with an old domain name or aquisition or something. Do not really remember.
is supposed to go to a Chase Bank card but when I click on it it goes to a dead "Cannot find server... the page cannot be displayed" page with that linksynergy address.
Why is my computer/browser not processing the link properly???
Try clearing your browser cache if you haven't already.
Also try the link through a proxy service like proxify.com.
It's possible you're having some dns resolution problems.
A server that acts as an intermediary between a user's computer and the computer they want to access. If a user makes a request for a resource from computer "A," this request is directed to the proxy server, which makes the request, gets the response from computer "A," and then forwards the response to the client. Proxy servers are useful for accessing World Wide Web resources from inside a firewall.
Thanks for checking them majinbuu!! At least I know that I'm not loosing my mind!!! I guess I'm not going to be able to use SSW for Chase and BofA. Shrug.
I still wanna know why though! I'm kinda Type A that way!
Do a file search on your main windows drive for a file called HOSTS. It contains hosts that are not allowed by the browser. Certain programs put a list of hosts in there, mostly ads and one of them is linkshare. It will keep from being able to display the ads. I took all them out of the HOSTS file (don't take out 127.0.0.1) and it worked fine after that.
It's usually in c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts At least that is where it in Win2K. You can do a search from your Start Menu for it. I REALLY recommend though that you have somebody that knows computers to do it for you as anything in the system32 drawer should only be messed with by people who know what they are doing...and since I have 2K and not XP, not sure I can tell you what is in the XP file and whether it's different than 2K or not.
But I did get that same 'server not found' problem with Linkshare and others when the host file had those entries in it. Actually I went about a year with that problem, trying all the cookies and temp file fixes and didn't put linkshare up on my site because I couldn't see the ads, and one night I had a virus and I had to edit the hosts file to get rid of the virus and that is when I found all that stuff in it. I took it out and it all worked fine. In fact I just put up some shutterfly banners tonight...
Maybe someone with XP could send you the hosts file to just put into place. That would probably be the easiest...As I said, I'd do it, but mine is win2K, not sure it's the same.
First thing I would do if you are going to try it is to back it up by copying it to a different name (or directory) so that you can restore it in case it doesn't work again. On mine, it was everything lower than the 127.0.0.1 that was in there at the top. It had a header that said added and a date, although some programs probably put different things there and then it had a list that was quite long with things like clicksor, linkshare, yahoo and others. On 2K and PROBABLY the same on XP Pro the only thing that you seemed to need to keep in there was the 127.0.0.1 and above if you don't have anything else like a web server running, or whatever. You could try taking everything out and saving it and see if that fixes your problems, and if not, return to the backup if you have that or other problems. Best I can tell ya. Good luck...
so why might the links not work from my home computer?? 
