Info panel not showing your information
If you see the above picture on your heart info link then it will be because you are using Feedburner to display your feed and you have item click tracking enabled. What this does is replace the links that point to your posts within your feed and instead, point them to Feedburners own site so they can track how many clicks you get on your feeds post titles.
The problem with this is, even though they say it doesn’t affect your Google juice, it will not associate your title keywords with the URL that the link forwards to unless the link is followed. It also has the disadvantage of making your luvlinks look just like most other feedburner links. If the ComLuv API can’t recognize your link then it can’t send back all the lovely info you typed into your profile.
Solution
Switch off item click tracking…
1. Visit Feedburner.com and login to your account.
2. Choose the feed you want to change the settings on.
3. Click “configure stats”
4. Deselect the checkbox marked “Item link clicks”
5. Click “Save”
That’s it, you’ve configured your Feedburner feed to not forward your feed links and instead, point them direct to your site so you can have an awesome info panel like this one.
Twitter: barbaraling
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Not only that – Feedburner also steals away link love too. I wrote about that at Danger Will Robinson! ttp://tinyurl.com/5e3blq
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Twitter: commentluv
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I think the only reason many people use feedburner is so they can see how many readers they have! I find the wordpress built in feeds so much more powerful. Guess I’ll have to find a way to add stats to the feeds so people can get a good idea of how they’re being served.. one more for the todoodlist!
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Twitter: oims
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I think if it’s possible that’s a great idea. I’m using Feedburner (because of the Google connection), but hate the idea that the domain name gets lost in the process. So I’ll be watching to see if your wizard-like talents figure out a way around Feedburner
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Andy, I use Feedburner because when I first started my blog it was on Blogspot, then WordPress.com, and now it is self-hosted. I simply want an easy way for people to subscribe; I’m not too interested in SEO.
So what makes WordPress’ built-in feeds more powerful than FeedBurner’s?
(Thanks for the tutorial, btw…while I’m not *too* interested in SEO, I still want more luv coming my way than Google/Feedburner’s!)
Twitter: commentluv
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I prefer wordpress own feed handling because you can have separate feeds for any category so if you write about a particular niche subject on your site, you can specify a feed link that allows users to subscribe only to that subject. Feedburner will redirect any feed request just to your main feed.
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Is there a comluv member list? How can you go about finding other blogs that use comluv to better support the network?
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Twitter: commentluv
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I have been working hard behind the scenes writing the classes and functions for putting in a top list and active sites list in the near future. I should have it on the site sometime soon!
Twitter: lavenderuses
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Yippee that will be soooooo good when that comes out Andy. I trawl through Twitter each day looking for good posts to read and comment on. Also visit here couple of times a day to see who is commenting, who are top commenters etc. There is already heaps of really good information here but that will be mega
Appreciate all that you do to make this community such an amazing one to be part of. Thanks Andy. You really are appreciated.
Patricia Perth Australia
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I like Feedburnder for all the info it provides, but I may have to revert back to the WordPress blog after learning about the link redirect.
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Twitter: commentluv
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you can switch the link redirects off if you want but it still leaves you having to manually burn a feed for each category if you want separate feeds for each one. WordPress does it automatically
Twitter: wwginger
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I’ve followed your instructions here, and turned off all feedburner plugins… but I just registered my domain with your site today. Is there a lag between registering and our links showing up correctly?
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Twitter: coreyaustin
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Genius, I love feedburner and the functionality it gives me, but I love commentluv more. Thanks for the help!
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Twitter: SoftwareCritics
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You’re awesome Andy! I’ve never thought of that until I’ve read your post.
Thank you for this tip.
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Twitter: commentluv
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glad to help!
Is there a way to make the heart icon and link show up retroactively? I posted a comment on a commentluv site before I knew what commentluv was all about…
Or specifically for this topic, will the links that already exist on other people’s blogs change once I follow this advice?
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Twitter: commentluv
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only comments made after commentluv has been installed will have the link. There’s no way to retroactively add them.
Twitter: DaneBlogger
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Thanks, I think it works. I just changed it, but doesn’t work, so I let the site point to /feed/
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Twitter: commentluv
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looks like its working fine for you now. Sometimes all it takes is a trailing slash
Twitter: ejendomsservice
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This works. Thank you. I was looking for that tip
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Twitter: ejendomsservice
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Wrong username. Its fixed now.
Im now a part of your community. Looking good..
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Twitter: mmangen
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I do have my stats configured as indicated above in Feedburner but I am still getting an error message when I post on blogs (such as this one) that has CommentLuv enabled.
Any other suggestions on how to get my feed to work?
Twitter: commentluv
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it will show you as a member on links made after you registered and have switched off redirects. Old links will still point to feedburner.
Cool, didn’t know this.
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Great heads up Andy. Also thanks to my friend Lean Life Coach for highlighting this post!
Best,
Sam
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Twitter: commentluv
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I think feedburner are able to use your own blog url in the feed items now. I will have to check, I stopped using them to do my feeds a long time ago.
Twitter: mcdpoker
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very cool indeed, ive been a member of comluv for less than a few hrs and I have learnt a lot already. Thanks, hope it works, will soon see when i click on submit.
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Twitter: commentluv
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yup, it worked for you fine!
Twitter: ZenMoments
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Ahhh, someone above has just answered my question regarding if there was a lag time between links showing after registering the URL.
I thought though that if the URL was registered, that I would get a drop-down list on a commentLuv enabled site to select from a list of articles instead of just having the latest one show. Perhaps I misunderstood something?
John
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Twitter: commentluv
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once you have registered your main url at http://comluv.com/member/ then when you comment using that exact url, it will show you the 10 last posts.
Make sure you haven’t registered your site with www and are commenting without the www in your url.
Twitter: ZenMoments
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Hi Andy,
In reference to my problem of not seeing the 10 posts to choose from, yes I am using the same format for the URL here and on comment forms (always with the http:// prefix and the www). I noticed just now however that when I checked my registered URL after setting it yesterday with all the details, that today the details were gone (only the address remained but without the http:// prefix as I had set it). Because the details (title, description, feed address, keywords) had disappeared though, I removed the address and began again just now so everything is there again. We’ll see if I get the 10 choices now.
Thanks for caring
John
PS: I notice I am not getting the choices here on this comment
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Twitter: commentluv
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you wont be getting 10 choices because you don’t have that many posts on your site, it will only show up to 10 from whatever is on your feed.
Twitter: ZenMoments
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Actually I have 40 posts on my site and they are all in the feed.
John
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Twitter: commentluv
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when I browse to your feed (http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Zen-moments) by clicking on the rss icon in the address bar it only shows only 5 items but when I click the link, it shows the full feed. how strange! there might be some forwarding error somewhere.
you can try it yourself. click the link and also copy the link and paste it into a new window and see if both pages look the same.
Twitter: ZenMoments
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I don’t know why would be. I get varying results myself. My site points to the updated feed address since Google took over FeedBurner (they added a “2″ after “feeds” in the address). Somewhere in feedburner I seem to recall a setting that sets the number of items to show in a feed, but I can’t find it anymore.
Regardless, shouldn’t commentluv recognize that I have more items to choose from, even if it can only access 5?
John
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Twitter: commentluv
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It can only show what it gets given. It must be seeing the one with 5 on it. have you set your feed url in the member page? try setting it to http://www.zen-moments.com/feed/ to see if the forwarding option works better than the direct access via feeds2.feedburner
Twitter: ZenMoments
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Thanks, but when I navigate to http://www.zen-moments.com/feed/ it redirects to the same feeds2 address and still only shows the last 5 posts. I’m surprised that I don’t get a choice in a drop box for at least those last 5 posts. I get no drop box at all with any choices.
I think I’ll let it go now. Perhaps in a week or so I’ll look at this again. It’s too much of a time sink right now. I appreciate your efforts and quick responses.
Best,
John
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thanks. great tips! just want to test here, whether it work or not ^_^
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Twitter: yullian
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I turned off “Item link clicks” but info panel wit my profile doesn’t appear at all. :/
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Twitter: commentluv
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once you turn that option off, it will only show you as a member on links that are added AFTER you switch it off
Twitter: webduck
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Thanks for the great tips Andy. I think I have my feeds updated now so I can have more SEO juice. :::crossing fingers::::
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Twitter: commentluv
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yup, your feed is working fine to show the proper links.
If you use feedblitz, their system can use the item tracking and when commentluv asks, it sends back the normal link so you get maximum SEO
OK, so I edited my Feedburner account and yet when I enter the URL in the website CommentLuv still pulls the feedburner address – is there a period of time that must pass before the the settings propagate through?
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Twitter: commentluv
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your posts or settings will probably be cached by feedburner or comluv for a day. If it’s still doing it after 48 hours then let me know.
Starting to feel the Luv now – didn’t even know it wasn’t configured right. As a bonus, I found out some people had subscribed to feedburner, magical!
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Twitter: commentluv
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glad it helped!
Twitter: rtwdave
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Thanks for the great tip, I just made the update.
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Twitter: commentluv
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and it worked!
Twitter: MetacomCreative
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I just updated the settings in my FeedBurner account. Let’s see if this works!
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Twitter: commentluv
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it’s still showing as using feedproxy . might be cached, give it 24 hours and try again
Twitter: ganapathymsa
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Like the linkluv concept. Thanks.
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Why did my name suddenly start saying “no last blog posts to return?”
Twitter: commentluv
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please submit a support ticket.
Twitter: TechChunks
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Okay, I’ve changed the FeedBurner settings. NO CHANGE!
As a test I’ve changed the CommentLuv feed URL to point at my blog’s feed URL. Still no change? Please help!
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Twitter: commentluv
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please submit a support ticket with all the relevant details so I can track down the problem for you.
Twitter: TechChunks
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Looks like it is working, finally.
But I guess I had changed the feed URL to my blog URL. Need to change it to Feedburner URL to be sure all are really fine now. Will keep you posted. Thanks.
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Twitter: AMater
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Followed these steps, but the link still redirects to Feedburner, as you can see. I sent a support ticket about it, but maybe you can reply here and see if we can figure something out.
Thanks, Andy!
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Twitter: commentluv
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maybe it hasn’t updated your feed yet. See if there’s an option to reburn your feed.. (or use feedblitz which is 100% compatible and wont show proxy urls if it detects it’s a commentluv link)
Twitter: AMater
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Something interesting I noticed is that “Original Feed” is showing this: http://feedproxy.google.com/WorkFromHomeResourcesBlog. If I’m correct, shouldn’t it be my actual blog feed URL instead? Could this be causing it?
As far as updating, I can’t imagine it would have taken a whole month to update. As I mentioned in my ticket, I did this about a month ago, but I still have this problem.
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Twitter: commentluv
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make sure that the feed url you have set in feedburner is pointing to your wordpress feed and go over your settings again.
If it wont change, try feedburner support, I don’t use them and haven’t for over 2 years because of all the issues I had with them so I’m not familiar with their setup any more.
Twitter: AMater
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I got it working, but something definitely got messed up with Feedburner. For some reason I have two burned feeds for my blog, and the one does point to my actual blog feed. I unticked the box for that feed also, and all is working now. Must have been when everything got transferred over to Google after they took over.
Thanks for your help, Andy!
Oh sorry lol, it’s working now. I guess it needed some time to refresh or whatever
. Thank you very much for this tip, i was afraid im stuck with feedproxy links. Tnx
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Twitter: azuanrazi
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I’m already adjust this setting.. now its working.. great..
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Boy am I glad I found this article! I checked a comment I had left, and sure enough, Feedburner was redirecting my link. I turned it off, made another comment, and everything looked fine. I checked another old comment and it still showed the redirect, so I guess I lost the link luv for all my comments up till now. Something about this should probably be very prominently posted on the home page and somewhere in the sign-up process.
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Twitter: sonlinebiz
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Saw this same info @ Mavis Nong’s blog and immediately rectified the error. All that’s left is for me to start building my dofollow minks from scratch again.
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Twitter: geekbabe
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just made the feedburner corrections, posting here hoping it works:)
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Twitter: commentluv
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perfect!
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how to enabled xx last blog in my blog??
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Twitter: commentluv
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please do not use the comments to ask for support. Use the support tickets in the dashboard.
Im having a bit of a problem .. I dont get the option to add my URL, after I click link add URL the page is just blank with a little text on it, but no form to fill out my information. Do anyone know why that is ?
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Twitter: commentluv
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please could you submit a support ticket with the url you are trying and the page you are trying it on. copy and paste the text you are seeing into the ticket too so it will be easier to track down what the problem is.
I use both Comment Luv and Keyword Luv. Both are great.
However to get my feed to appear I have to enter http://www.example.com/feed/ in the website address, then when I fill in my name: Fitness 21 @ Winter Running – Keyword Luv links my keywords to my feed rather than my site. Is there away arounf this?
Thanks in advance
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Twitter: commentluv
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this site is using comluv gold so it wont allow keywordluv type names, it already adds the site name from the comluv users account.
if you visit the member page at http://comluv.com/member/ , you can specify your feed url and site name there so you wont need to use /feed/ in your url or @ Winter Running in your name.
I am talking about general sites that use both comment luv and keyword luv. Unless I specify both my feed url and site url as http://www.example.com/feed/ I only get one post to chose from but if I add /feed/ to both url’s I get the full list of ten posts to choose from.
Thanks
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Twitter: commentluv
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visit the member page at http://comluv.com/member/ and make sure your site details are correct.
please use the support tickets for futher help. the comments section is not a good place to track issues.
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Andy,
You’re asking people to submit support tickets, but I click on the support link and there’s nothing there about a support ticket. And trust me, I need to submit a support ticket right now. The link about to show as mine isn’t even something I’ve written; now it’s really weird.
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Twitter: commentluv
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can you tell me what you put in the url field to get it to fire off the commentluv plugin to fetch a post? it isn’t coded to fire if there is nothing in the url field
It came up with the domain name of my blog, http://www.imjustsharing.com. It was already there, so I didn’t put anything new in. And notice, this time nothing’s coming up at all.
Twitter: commentluv
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looks like it might have been a temporary glitch. I put your url in the unban page at http://comluv.com/member/unban-url/ and afterwards it worked for your url.
the support tickets are in the dashboard of this site at the top left if you need them
Twitter: Jajodia_Saket
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Thanks for the info but is there no other workaround instead of turning the feedburner tacker off???
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Dang! It’s still not working! What’s the problem? I’m at http://TheBusinessCoachforMom.com
Twitter: commentluv
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you should submit a support ticket in the dashboard if you’re having a problem with commentluv
Twitter: GizmosHub
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Thanks for this great tutorial. I was just looking for this, hopefully it works now.
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Twitter: cruisesurfing
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thank you very much for the help!
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