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Special case: Frequently changing pages

Your site might contain URLs that are updated more than once per month - example: a page with a daily article, or a daily comic strip. Unfortunately, Ipaya considers multiple visits to the same URL in one month as only one single visit. While this rule is actually fair in most cases - every piece of information only gets counted once - it is unfair for sites that contain often changing content, which is why we have designed a workaround for these sites.

How to use this workaround: for every update you publish, you need an additional, unique URL. Example: for daily articles, this could be the archive where every article can be found as well. So while an article is published today at http://www.example.com/daily/, it can also be accessed at http://www.example.com/archive/2003-02-15/. This second URL would be your unique URL.

To implement the workaround, you present users the same page as you would always do, but you report us back the unique URL, which is of course different for every article.

Since Holmes would find a difference between what you provide and what you report back, you need to tell every visitor that you are using the workaround. To do this, add the following meta-tag to the <head> portion of your site:

<meta name="ipaya.reported_as" content="unique URL you will report back">

Example:

<meta name="ipaya.reported_as" content="http://www.example.com/archive/2003-02-15/">