Here's an update regarding what's going on here at coRank.
- We have added the possibility to add stories automatically to a site from a RSS or ATOM feed. This functionality is still pre-beta. It works pretty well for English feeds, but there are still a few unresolved issues with non-English feeds.
Because this feature may be easily abused - say, creating a coRank site, adding a feed from a popular blog, and let it run collecting someone else's content and whatever revenue may come from adSense or other ads - for now adding feeds to a coRank site has to be requested manually, and if the feed is from a source that carries someone else's content, we'd like you to add a brief comment explaining why the feed should be added.
- We found a formatting bug for sites using the Bligg or coDigg templates, when a story was submitted along with a picture. To fix it, please do as follows:
- Edit your style.css file
- Look for the class vSBox
- In that class, delete this: position: absolute;
- Add this: float:left;
- Now, find the class vSubBigBox
- If present, remove the "position", "top" and "left" attributes
- Modify the margin attribute to: margin: 0 70px 20px 70px;
- Now find * html img.vAva { ...} and remove completely that block.
- Related to the previous fix, we moved the adSense block, so instead of appearing at the very right of the screen when viewing a story, it now appears at the top, right below the View Story heading. The main reason for moving the adSense was that by placing it on the right, some people were having formatting problems that weren't easily resolved by tweaking the CSS. By moving it to the top, now the block containing the story has plenty of room and no formatting errors should happen.
So it isn't a move to obtain a higher click ratio on ads, honestly. Keep in mind anyway that this adSense block alternates our ads with your own adSense (if you entered your own adSense code), so from that point of view, the move might also be advantageous for you. If you have any suggestions, please speak up :-)
That's it for now! We have some really cook features coming up soon, so stay tuned!