Thanks Estiven, but you didn't really get the details of my problem:
- Perhaps it is not stated in the xml file as [category="category"]
- It is. category="lifestyle"
- just because it is gone from your dashboard it doesnt mean it is gone
from the directory
- I never said it was gone from the dashboard. Its in the dashboard and
it's in the directory IF you search but not browse.
- the remaining users will still have the gadget and will be able to
use it without problems
- True, but not having it in the directory means that new people don't
find it which is more of a problem than you might thing. There is a lot
of
churn with Gadgets and net result has been 400,000 fewer installs over
time.
- Sometimes there is a delay servers which would explain why your
gadget's stats changed
- This has been going on for almost a year so I doubt it's server delay
at this point. It's a bug.
- A lot of spam gadgets are messing up the order, i think google should
remove those gadgets or ban the "developers" of those gadgets.
- Also true, but it doesn't explain why spam gadgets show up when
browsing/sorting and others, like ours, do not.
On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 9:58:46 PM UTC-4, Estiven Guerrero wrote:
>
> Perhaps it is not stated in the xml file as [category="category"] just the
> fact that your gadget is first in 2 categories is impressive and just
> because it is gone from your dashboard it doesnt mean it is gone from the
> directory. Even if it is, the remaining users will still have the gadget
> and will be able to use it without problems. Sometimes there is a delay
> servers which would explain why your gadget's stats changed. A lot of spam
> gadgets are messing up the order, i think google should remove those
> gadgets or ban the "developers" of those gadgets.
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Dave Pitman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Like it or not the gadget directory is still the single best place for
>> people to find gadgets. So it's really frustrating that I can't get an
>> answer to my questions about why it doesn't work.
>>
>> At one time, our gadget had 850,000 users. But about a year ago, it
>> disappeared from the directory UNLESS you do a very specific search using
>> keywords. You can't browse the directory and find it even though you should
>> be able to. Nothing changed on our end but one day you couldn't browse and
>> find it anymore.
>>
>> Here is what I mean:
>>
>> - Search for "artist",
>> http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=artist&dpos=top&root=%2Fig. You
>> see our gadget Artist a day at the top. 438,000 users.
>> - Now, do that same search in the lifestyle category,
>>
>> http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=artist&dpos=top&root=/ig&cat=lifestyle.
>> We still show up. So that means it's in the lifestyle category.
>> - Without a search, just browse the lifestyle category and sort by
>> most users,
>>
>> http://www.google.com/ig/directory?dpos=top&root=/ig&cat=lifestyle&sort=users.
>>
>> With 438,000 we should be third, but we are no where to be found.
>>
>> I only complain about this because without the ability to browse for
>> gadgets, which is how most people find them I suspect, our install based
>> has dwindled from 850,000 to less than 450,000 in a year. There may be
>> other factors in play, but for sure this doesn't help and it's clearly not
>> working properly. Can someone give me a reply to let me know if there is
>> something I'm doing wrong here or are we truly own our own?
>>
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