Have a site www.currencytoday.ca, which is essentially a one-page PHP script built earlier this year.
Three Adsense ad slots (big box, skyscraper, leaderboard). Everything worked fine until this week.
Changed my Adsense settings to text-only ads for the skyscraper (160×600) and leaderboard (728×90), and I guess it triggered Adsense to crawl my site.
The issue is that for some reason it’s crawling the HOST’s robots.txt file (web2.royaltyservers.com), not the SITE’s (www.currencytoday.ca). All my other Adsense sites work just fine – crawls the robots.txt file in the folder of the site itself.
It’s probably because of where the Adsense code itself is – it’s in an include folder (e.g., currencytoday.ca/inc/adsensexxx.txt) called from the PHP index file. I believe that Adsense crawls the file it’s called from, and the error message in the Adsense diagnostic claims that it was trying to get to this file when it encountered an error, but it describes the file as starting with web2.royaltyservers.com/webshell4/currencytoday.ca/inc/adsensexxx.txt instead of currencytoday/inc/adsensexxx.txt.
In your bid, please illustrate your expertise with Adsense and PHP – ideally in the bid itself. It’s a pain to look separately at the message board in Scriptlance, but if you feel you must, go ahead. Also it’s very hard to keep track of programmers who use the message board but don’t bid, so please try to bid if this is something you really know about.
Lastly, on this one I’m unlikely to choose a bidder with no previous Scriptlance reviews – sorry about that.