Setting up an RSS campaign with Mailchimp, and hit a roadblock. The import seems to work, the design looks great, but we only are able to ever get one post -- the most recent one-- into the email.
The RSS feed is: https://our.news/feed/trending
We have verified that pubDate is included and properly formatted on all items, ie:
<item>
<title>The FBI is warning you to reboot your router to prevent a new attack here’s everything you need to do</title>
<link>https://our.news/2018/05/30/the-fbi-is-warning-you-to-reboot-your-router-to-prevent-a-new-attack-heres-everything-you-need-to-d/</link>
<comments>https://our.news/2018/05/30/the-fbi-is-warning-you-to-reboot-your-router-to-prevent-a-new-attack-heres-everything-you-need-to-d/#comments</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2018 07:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[OurBot]]></dc:creator>
<category><![CDATA[Headlines]]></category>
<guid isPermaLink="false">https://our.news/?p=103857</guid>
<description><![CDATA[BUSINESSINSIDER.COM – On Friday, the FBI said anyone who uses a router to connect to the internet should reboot their routers. That will “temporarily disrupt...]]></description>
<wfw:commentRss>https://our.news/2018/05/30/the-fbi-is-warning-you-to-reboot-your-router-to-prevent-a-new-attack-heres-everything-you-need-to-d/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
<media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://dsezcyjr16rlz.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/30023303/httpsamp.businessinsider.comimages5b0d64001ae66220008b47d5640320.1.jpg.jpg" width="150" height="75" />
</item>
The specific email design template we're using is simple, relevant section is:
*|RSSITEMS:[$count=5]|*
<span style="float:left">*|RSSITEM:IMAGE|* </span>
*|RSSITEM:TITLE|*
*|END:RSSITEMS|*
This happens in Preview Mode, in the Test Email, AND in the actual weekly campaign sends. The campaign is set to send weekly, and when it does, it only includes the first item from the list. Ideally, we'd like this to always just include the most recent 5 items. Anyone have any ideas?
Try using a FeedBlock
*|FEEDBLOCK:https://www.url.com/test.xml|*
*|FEEDITEMS:[$count=5]|*
<span style="float:left">*|FEEDITEM:IMAGE|* </span>
*|FEEDITEM:TITLE|*
*|END:FEEDITEMS|*
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when I checked my google analytics > acquisition > search console > landing page
understand that I have 2 URLs for each blog post.
for example:
blog/429/legal/اسقاط-کافه-خیارات-به-چه-معناست/
and
/blog/429/legal/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B7-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%87-%D8%AE%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D9%87-%DA%86%D9%87-%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA/
Both refer to one blog post.
But the main problem is statistics:
URL #2 have 0 Impressions, clicks and CTR but correct position. Also URL #1 have correct Impressions, clicks and ctr, but incorrect position.
My blog posts have canonical tag and I check all internal link building. I used all linked with same form (for example: example.com/blog/429/legal/اسقاط-کافه-خیارات-به-چه-معناست/)
now
1- what is the source of problem and
2- how to fix it?
This is an issue of Google Search Console. The url is sent to Google Analytics in encoded form and the tool manages to convert it to show ad decoded. When it retrieves it from the search console it shows it as it receives it. I don't think there is an effective solution with the two tools, however you can export data and manage them in another tool, for example with Javascript (i.e. in Spreadsheet and Google Apps Script) you can de decode a URI with only one operation so after that you can build a table (in Spreadsheet) that finds the matches and compare the metrics.
<div id="get_url_encoded">/blog/429/legal/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B7-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%87-%D8%AE%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D9%87-%DA%86%D9%87-%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA/</div>
<br /><br />
<div id="set_url_decoded"></div>
<script>
var uri = document.getElementById("get_url_encoded").innerHTML;
var uri_dec = decodeURIComponent(uri);
document.getElementById("set_url_decoded").innerHTML = uri_dec;
</script>
https://jsfiddle.net/michelepisani/de058c4o/5/
Our domain email address started receiving blank spam emails from our contact form (this is known from the header). They are from seemingly random email addresses and have no content. They are received roughly every 5 minutes with occasional 45 minute breaks. The form works correctly and I've tried both Askimet and Honeypot plugins (both together and separately) to no avail. The contact form (Contact-Form-7) has required fields. I believe Honeypot is failing due to the blank content and the hidden field not being populated. Here is an example of what the email contains:
From: WordPress [mailto:info#domain.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 3:47 PM
To: info#domain.com
Subject: contact form from domain.com
Name: 58f0002d1ad5f 58f0002d1ada9
Email: randomname#random.com
Subject:
Message:
The random name & email services are from various providers (billy#hotmail.com, kelly#yahoo.com, jim#gmail.com, etc). The Name field contains a seemingly random string (58efeaa9252e7 58efeaa92532d, 58efeaaf3099c 58efeaaf309da,58f0002d1ad5f 58f0002d1ada9, etc)
What is responsible for this particular type of spam?
What is the actual goal of blank spam email?
Is there another plugin or workaround that could filter the spam besides captcha?
Honeypot will not catch blank email spam as noted above. Invisible reCaptcha will prevent this particular type of spam.
As far as possible motivation(s)/reason(s):
1.The spammers send the e-mail, along with a million others. Some bounce, some don't. They now know which e-mail addresses are still current.
2.Some people, amazingly, actually reply, even if it's just to say "Unsubscribe me!". Bingo, the e-mail address is current and there's a person behind it, and that person actually opens e-mails sent by the particular send address they've used.
3.Sometimes the content isn't as empty as it seems. For instance, many spam messages contain a one-pixel-by-one-pixel image with a trackback url; as soon as you view the message, they get pinged that this particular pixel was viewed - Bingo as above. That's the reason many modern mail clients warn you about images in messages and suggest you don't view the images unless you trust the source.
You could use invisible reCAPTCHA or use Contact Form's build in quiz/question.
I'm having the same issue with this bot/spammer. Honeypot doesn't work for me either. Would be interested to know the source and goal of this spammer.
I have this log on a Wordpress database (wp_postmeta, if it's relevant), which is the inputs sent via a webform and that I receive as e-mail. This is serialized as follows.
s:859:"a:11:{s:10:"Producent*";a:1:{i:0;s:4:"Test";}s:8:"Adresse*";a:1:{i:0;s:4:"Test";}s:7:"Postnr*";a:1:{i:0;s:4:"1111";}s:3:"By*";a:1:{i:0;s:4:"Test";}s:8:"Telefon*";a:1:{i:0;s:8:"12345678";}s:7:"E-mail*";a:1:{i:0;s:12:"test#test.dk";}s:14:"Kontaktperson*";a:1:{i:0;s:3:"LOC";}s:13:"Bemærkninger";a:1:{i:0;s:2:"Yo";}s:9:"_log_time";a:1:{i:0;i:1453898700;}s:12:"_log_form_id";s:4:"1939";s:10:"_log_mails";a:1:{s:7:"Webform";s:247:"<p>Ny besked fra *URL* </p>
<p>Producent<br />
Test</p>
<p>Adresse<br />
Test</p>
<p>Postnr<br />
1111</p>
<p>By<br />Test</p>
<p>Telefon<br />
12345678</p>
<p>E-mail<br />test#test.dk</p>
<p>Kontaktperson<br />
LOC</p>
<p>Bemærkninger<br />
Yo</p>
<p> </p>
";}}";
My question is if I can extract a log time from s:9:"_log_time";a:1:{i:0;i:1453898700;} in the form of dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm or something to that effect? If not:
(1) How can I do that from this data (there's no other data saved)?
(2) What is this _log_time supposed to be?
Many thanks in advance for helping us newbies learn more!
PS: if this question has already been posted somewhere, please point me to the right direction, as my Google search and search here has given me nothing useful.
Running a:1:{i:0;i:1453898700;} through unserialize() results in:
array (
0 => 1453898700,
)
(Well, we could've guessed that from just looking at the serialized data.)
Using PHP's date function, we find out this particular Unix timestamp (i.e. 1453898700) is equivalent to Wednesday, 27-Jan-16 12:45:00 UTC.
What that date/time is supposed to mean, exactly, I can't help you with. The time the form data was submitted?
I am trying to use PHP to fire hits at Google to track newsletter opens and clickthroughs. I want to use the same technique for both clickthroughs and opens since the clickthroughs will go to sites outside of my own control - I want to be able to report on the clickthrough rates of the newsletters regardless of where the clicks go to. I was thinking of trying code.google.com/p/php-ga/ but there is little in the way of example code/support docs to start with so I am hesitant.
Here is my url to __utm.gif broken up over the lines for clarity:
utm.gif?utmac=MO-xxx31982-1">http://www.google-analytics.com/_utm.gif?utmac=MO-xxx31982-1
&utmhn=myfake.com
&utmcc=_utma%3D7042858245.1436153422.1214501708.1340117181.1340117181.1%3B%2B_utmz%3D1.1340117181.1.1.utmcsr%3D%28direct%29%7Cutmccn%3D%28direct%29%7Cutmcmd%3D%28none%29%3B
&utmwv=1
&utmr=click
&utm_source=Emails
&utm_medium=Newsletter
&utm_campaign=tet+2012-06-19+10%3A41%3A30
&utmp=%2FMYZZ%2FNEWSLETTERS
&uservar=16430
Does the utmhn need to be a legit URL or one associated with the account? What about utmr? I was using that to contain 'click' or 'open' so I could differentiate.
When I click a link in the newsletter I get the expected pixel image returned so Google is getting something anyway even if ignoring my querystring. In my Google Analytics account where should I see the data relating the the __utm.gif hits? So far I see none when using this technique.
P.S. I got this technique from here
Follow up:
I changed a few things and my url now looks like so:
utm.gif?utmwv=1">http://www.google-analytics.com/_utm.gif?utmwv=1
&utmn=8391432847
&utmsr=click
&utmsc=-
&utmul=-
&utmje=0
&utmfl=-
&utmdt=-
&utmhn=myfake.com
&utm_source=my_newsletter
&utm_medium=Emails
&utm_campaign=tet 2012-06-19 10:41:30
&utmr=my_newsletter
&utmp=images/google/click
&utmac=MO-xxx31982-1
&utmcc=_utma%3D24820632.1925394567.1340121629.1340121629.1340121629.2%3B%2B_utmb%3D24820632%3B%2B_utmc%3D24820632%3B%2B_utmz%3D24820632.1340121629.2.2.utmccn%3D(direct)%7Cutmcsr%3D(direct)%7Cutmcmd%3D(none)%3B%2B__utmv%3D24820632.6430%3B
and nothing happens except when I paste that link into my browser then Google gets it, so why does it not work when called from the PHP line $handle = fopen ($urchinUrl1, "r");?
ok, nevermind. I changed my app around so the utm.gif is just included in the email and in a redirect page rather than called from the script. Should have done it that way but got caught up in the fancier idea of calling the url from php.
Even though this question is over a year old...the GA measurement protocol can be used to send hits back to GA for newsletter opens and clickthroughs.
To answer your initial question, it looks like you're missing the utmhid and utmn parameters.
I started building a app that will automatically download my delicious bookmarks, and save to a database, so they I can view them on my own website in my favoured format.
I am forced to use oAuth, as I have a yahoo id to login to delicious. The problem is I am stuck at the point where oAuth requires a user to manually go and authenticate.
Is there a code/ guidelines available anywhere I can follow? All I want is a way to automatically save my bookmarks to my database.
Any help is appreciated. I can work on java, .net and php. Thanks.
Delicious Provides an API for this already:
https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all?
Returns all posts. Please use sparingly. Call the update function to see if you need to fetch this at all.
Arguments
&tag={TAG}
(optional) Filter by this tag.
&start={#}
(optional) Start returning posts this many results into the set.
&results={#}
(optional) Return this many results.
&fromdt={CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ}
(optional) Filter for posts on this date or later
&todt={CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ}
(optional) Filter for posts on this date or earlier
&meta=yes
(optional) Include change detection signatures on each item in a 'meta' attribute. Clients wishing to maintain a synchronized local store of bookmarks should retain the value of this attribute - its value will change when any significant field of the bookmark changes.
Example
$ curl https://user:passwd#api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all
<posts tag="" user="user">
<post href="http://www.weather.com/" description="weather.com"
hash="6cfedbe75f413c56b6ce79e6fa102aba" tag="weather reference"
time="2005-11-29T20:30:47Z" />
...
<post href="http://www.nytimes.com/"
description="The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia"
extended="requires login" hash="ca1e6357399774951eed4628d69eb84b"
tag="news media" time="2005-11-29T20:30:05Z" />
</posts>
There are also public and private RSS feeds for bookmarks, so if you can read and parse XML you don't necessarily need to use the API.
Note however that if you registered with Delicious after December, and therefore use your Yahoo account, the above will not work and you'll need to use OAuth.
There are a number of full examples on the Delicious support site, see for example: http://support.delicious.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=3698