Adsense: ‘We’ve detected an error on your IAB TC string’
KB ID 0001709 Problem A couple of weeks ago I logged into Adsense and saw this; ‘We’ve detected an error on your IAB TC string on one or more of your sites or apps. These errors may affect your ability to serve ads to European users. A detailed report is available for you on the EU user consent page’. Solution Well all of that made no sense to me, so I downloaded the report, which is a spreadsheet and it looked like...
Tracking Affiliate Advertising Clicks in Google Analytics
KB ID 0000632 Problem Google Analytics is great at telling you what’s coming into your site, but it’s not designed to tell you what’s going out. For the most part that’s OK, but what if you have affiliate adverts, and you want to track if your visitors are clicking on them, or you want to find out which ones are NOT getting clicked on so you can drop them. Solution 1. First you need to delay the result of the...
Google Analytics – Redundant Hostnames
(Redirecting non www URL’s to www URL’s) KB ID 0001016 Problem I noticed this a while back, apparently Google Analytics started flagging this for many users on October 14th 2014. But I’ve only just got round to sorting it out. If you are seeing this error its because your site is ‘addressable’ in more than one way, in my case you could get to me via http://petenetlive and http://www.petenetlive.com. I...
Migrate your Facebook friends to Google+
KB ID 0000483 Problem I like Google+ it’s clean and free of junk. There are no annoying applications, and unlike Facebook (which gets thousands of pieces of Malware a day posted to it), It’s gaining new users at an alarming rate. However migrating your friends is not a simple task, most posts on the web involve creating a Yahoo mail account and using that to drag the people across, this method is much easier and works a...
Google Chrome – Cannot play embedded .wmw or .mpg/.mpeg
KB ID 0000184 Problem I’m a big fan of Google Chrome, i’ts fast, and clean, and it does exactly what it says on the tin! I had noticed, I had a problem playing embedded video though. As I use this format on PeteNetLive it was my only gripe, (well that and syncing bookmarks, but I cured that with Xmarks). Took me a bit of searching but I got it fixed in the end. Solution 1. Download THIS (Yes I know it says Firefox –...