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lingmiester
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi all,

I am having problems with my Digging of my wordpress site http://designsojourn.com. It seems when a digg link is submitted from my site it returns an error:

This link does not appear to be a working link. Please check the URL and try again.

I've tried everything, even a non-java script button, and I've even entering my page link manually on the digg submit page. No luck. Some how its not seeing the permalink matching with the wordpress post page.

I would appreciate anyone familar with URLs, permalinks, and wordpress to help?

my site is http://designsojourn.com and you can try digging any post, it comes back with an error. The problem was it worked before but not since i moved to media temple.

Please help and thanks in advance.
Lmr.

lingmiester
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Bump?

lingmiester
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

No body can help? Could i have been banned from digg? Which is strange as I hardly submit anything to digg.

Maryj
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I have exactly the same problem on http://goodlifezen.com and my son who is also a blogger on http://learninghowtosurf.com has reported similar trouble.
Is there anyone out there who has an answer?
cheers
Mary

mobilephones
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi everyone,
I'm a new entrant here and I have the same problem. Whenever I try to submit a post to digg, I get the message "This link does not appear to be a working link. Please check the URL and try again."

Also, my friend's blog has comment luv plugin enabled. When I leave a comment on the blog, the plugin usually traces my latest post and links to it. But the last couple of posts I posted in my site were not traced by the plugin and it linked to an old post.

What could be the problem? I don't have the faintest clue regarding technical stuff so I'd appreciate a detailed explanation. My site is http://www.cellphone-advertising.com/

Thanks very much in advance for your time.

mobilephones
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi guys,
Could anyone help me out? Please refer to my post above.

mobilephones
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi everyone,
I reported about the same problem yesterday. Could someone please help me sort out the issue? I use WP version 2.1. Please refer to my post above. I thank everyone in advance for your valuable time.

seattletravelgal
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I'm having the same issue at http://wanderlustandlipstick.com. Would certainly appreciate any help to get this sorted out!

By the way, I don't think it's a matter of being banned - I think there's something else going on. I also had an issue last week of being banned from the admin area of my own WP and had to make changes in my files in order to get into the admin. Could this be related?

theapparatus
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Some specifics as what you're doing would be helpful. Saying that you have the same problem doesn't give folks here much to go on I'm afraid when no one has menetioned what specific method they're using. Are you using a plugin? Manual? Specific posts that you're digg'ing?

seattletravelgal
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Same issue as in: When I manually add a URL to Submit News on Digg, I get a message that says, "This link does not appear to be a working link. Please check the URL and try again."

Doesn't matter what URL I use from my site, be it a page or a post, none of them work on Digg. I've had a friend try this on another computer and he's getting the same message.

Does that help?

seattletravelgal
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Here's a link to a fix but it's not a very good fix since it means that no one else can digg your stuff.

http://www.joefiro.com/bad-behavior-misbehaved/

mobilephones
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi guys,
I have all the social bookmarking icons present right at the end of every post in my blog. When I try to click that Digg button at the end of a post and try to submit it, I get the message "This link does not appear to be a working link. Please check the URL and try again."

I hope that was specific. I'd appreciate some help. Thanks.

mobilephones
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi guys,
Alright; I'll try one more time - this time, I'll be very specific. I can't submit to digg - when I click the digg button at the end of the post, or when I try to type the URL manually into digg and try to submit it.

A comment luv plugin is something which traces the latest post of the commenter and links to it along with the comment. But when I comment in one such blog which has comment luv plugin, it's not able to trace my post either. It links to an old post.

Hope that's clear. Please help me. I'm a newbie to WordPress and I have no idea how to proceed. I thank everyone in advance for your valuable time.

My URL - http://www.cellphone-advertising.com/

seattletravelgal
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I think we've all been specific enough - I don't think anyone has an answer for this completely annoying issue!

mobilephones
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi everyone,
I finally found out the reason for this annoying problem. It's the bad behavior plugin which causes that problem. If you deactivate that plugin, you can submit to digg. I tried it with my blog and I was able to submit a post after I deactivated the bad behavior plugin. But then, it's not possible to keep that plugin permanently deactivated. Maybe an upgrade would help???

geektek
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

"seattletravelgal" thanks for the link above on bad-behavior. That hit the nail on the head. Problem solved.

deloresdefacto
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I was having the same problem with the "This link does not appear to be a working link. Please check the URL and try again" error when I try to use my Digg It button on my posts.
Thanks for mentioning the Bad Behavior plugin because as many of you know, it was outdated and was causing the blogger to be banned from their own blog. I updated it but now the Digg It problem is still having trouble apparently. I've posted something at the Bad Behavior support forum about the conflict.

Otto42
Moderator
Posted 1 year ago #

How to fix this:

In the Bad Behavior plugin folder, you'll find a bad-behavior subfolder as well. Inside that, you'll find a file called "whitelist.inc.php".

Edit the whitelist file with a text editor. In there it provides two ways to whitelist a site: by IP Address and by User Agent string. We're going to whitelist Digg's crawler IP address.

Digg's crawler IP is 64.191.203.34. So to whitelist it, change the IP addresses at the top of the file to include that one. Like so:

// Includes four examples of whitelisting by IP address and netblock.
	$bb2_whitelist_ip_ranges = array(
		"10.0.0.0/8",
		"172.16.0.0/12",
		"192.168.0.0/16",
		"64.191.203.34",
//		"127.0.0.1",
	);

Save the file to your site, and you're done. Digg submissions should work again, instantly.

Bad Behavior's author recommends this as a temporary workaround until Digg fixes their systems to work properly.

deloresdefacto
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Thanks and sorry for "breaking the rules" by starting a new topic. How was I to know? I was trying to discuss this in the Bad Behavior's topic forums instead so that the author would be notified and people with the exact same problem could reply. I figured that organizationally it will be simpler than going off topic and discussing Bad Behavior in the Digg It topic forum. Oh well.

Anyway, that worked fine. Thanks again for your help.

error
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

This has been worked around in the latest version of Bad Behavior. Though I still recommend that you contact digg and report the problem, as it's their fault.

Anonymous
Unregistered
Posted 1 year ago #

I have exactly the same problem on http://www.goldtip.net.Is there anyone out there who has an answer?
please tell me the reason.
thanks!
DCM.

seattletravelgal
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I've upgraded to the latest version of BB and I still can't get my Diggs to work. I've even made sure that the Digg is on the whitelist. Anybody?

error
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Again, you should contact digg and ask them to fix their code.

6piston
Member
Posted 12 months ago #

here's what i got when i asked Digg.

They offered a workaround the bug i think.
I hope they'll fix it soon

anyway,

here's what they said when i emailed them

Please try using this link to submit your story: http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.zerotohundred.com/2008/auto-features/got-good-car-use-good-products-meguiars-feature/

-Digg Support
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Page:
Description: apparently this is a very common error many wordpress publishers are facing.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/146375

Whenever i try submitting a digg post from my wordpress site, this error always appear

"This link does not appear to be a working link. Please check the URL and try again."
What could be wrong with my url?
here it is:
http://www.zerotohundred.com/2008/auto-features/got-good-car-use-good-products-meguiars-feature/

OS: Windows XP

Browser: Firefox / IE

quintano_media
Member
Posted 11 months ago #

has someone come up with a solution. I dont have a bad behavior plugin or anything like that. my site is http://www.quintanomedia.com and I even try to manually enter my url's into digg and still get the same error. how hard is this to solve???

algarvegolf
Member
Posted 11 months ago #

just check that you have got the spelling right in your link , if you have copy/paste check you got all the url

boosey12
Member
Posted 11 months ago #

I really need to figure this out!!, it's been happening to me for a while now!!...

I might just change my whole template sometime soon, and away with Social bookmarking

[sig moderated]

chiahau
Member
Posted 11 months ago #

My site is letscooktoday.com and I am also having the same problem as the other guys.

CristianRa
Member
Posted 11 months ago #

Hey ppl,

after reading this whole thread I was hoping to get some answers for my site foamboardinsulation.net but it seems I'm in no luck :(

I'll just have to keep an eye on this thread and hope somebody will be able to solve it.

Ashpool
Member
Posted 11 months ago #

Hey guys.

I had the same problem with Digg and I think I have found a possible solution for it.

You may have your Custom Permalinks Box set to something like this:
http://example.com/%category%/%postname%/

What this does is submit to a social site something that looks like:
http://example.com/http://example.com/category/somepost

The problem is that it's picking up the entire string, so it's adding it on top of the URL that's being submitted already.

To fix this make sure that you set the custom permalink only to:
/%category%/%postname%/

Now it should work with Digg.

Hope this helps!

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