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LI regex pattern? (14)

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Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to bid on a URL in LI. Here's the scenario:

1. domainone.com/SomeSlug
2. abcdefg.com/SomeSlug
3. xyz123.com/SomeSlug

I want to target the SomeSlug part, but I only want it for the first one. Would the entry:

*on*SomeSlug

work to target it? Or do the wildcard modifiers only affect one character?

And I can't just use the fully qualified path, because LI considers it to be a POS page for some reason.

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

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is LI support regex pattern?

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I think your example would work.

They do support wildcards.

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let me ask this, does TV support wildcards then? If so, whats the syntax for wildcards

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I don't know about TrafficVance , will ask my rep and post back here.

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I've read somewhere here in this forum that the asterisk (*) is not a real wildcard, but just a single character replacement.

So "photo*editor" would trigger phrases such as: "Photo/editor", "Photo+editor", "Photo_editor", "Photo&editor" and whatever character you can place inside.

If that's true, then you should target something like "none.com/SomeSlug". Of course, you should have to find the safest amount of characters in the domain that won't make it rejected, but also that doesn't trigger unwanted domains.

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Im trying to figure out how this works myself right now. I could swear I read a post on here where one of the mods explained it, but I can't find it now

Anyway here is what is posted in LI's FAQ:

"The asterisk (*) is used with two-word keywords as a wild card and can represent ANY one character. The plus (+) is used between three or more keyword combinations and represents a space. A (+) is not a valid wild card. Our system will automatically insert these once the keywords have been added."

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Thanks Johnc, I was looking for that paragraph at LI's FAQ and couldn't find it. And it is a quite small faq!!!

Then there seems to be nothing much to discuss. Anyway, if you bid for "Photo*editor" you will cover mostly any string concatenation in urls. But if you bid for "Photo-editor", "Photo|editor", "Photo/editor" and so on, you will have much more precise data on the urls that are generating the popups.

Now... if I bid for "Photo*editor" and some other variations, what keyword will the %KEYWORD% variable return?
and if I bid 0.03 of "Photo*editor" and 0.015 for "Photo|Editor" what bid will I be charged?

I guess I will have to ask LI for the answer.

Anybody?

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does anyone know if there is a wildcard for MORE than 1 character on LI?

from above example
1. domainone.com/SomeSlug
2. abcdefg.com/SomeSlug
3. xyz123.com/SomeSlug

what if i want to bid on a string that is

1. domainone.com/whatever-thing-here-is-random-SomeSlug

can i do domainone.com/*SomeSlug to get to target the above url?

thanks!

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as far as I know there is no wildcard for more then 1 character on LI

no

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got this from LI:

so... i "think" the multiple stars work?!

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might do!
Worth a test.

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Trying to get a straight answer from a LI rep is about as hard as trying to get a liberal politician to explain how taxing wealthy people is going to help poor people.

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+1

I agree with both sides of this.

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