Google XML Sitemap Admin: Yahoo Ping Error

I'm using Zen Cart v1.3.8a and Google XML Sitemap administrator v1.3.19 20.04.2008 17:24.

I just installed Google XML Sitemap administrator on a site that is just getting started. When I go in Tools->Google XML Sitemap and update my sitemap (step 1) and then ping Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and MSN, they all respond with a success message except Yahoo, which gives me the following error (I've substituted "my domain" for the actual domain name):

cURL Error: Error http_code '503 ' reading 'http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.my domain.com%2Fsitemapindex.xml'.

The site is registered and verified with Yahoo.

I've spent a lot of time searching the FAQs, the forums, and the web for a solution, but have come up with nothing other than one guy with a similar problem who hijacked another post to ask about it and hasn't gotten any responses.

How do I get Google XML Sitemap to work with Yahoo?

TIA

Hi, I have exactly the same problem :(

Any help would be greatly appreciated :cool:

I just checked and now pinging Yahoo is working.

I guess it was just a temporary problem on Yahoo's end, because I haven't changed anything. :wacko:

I just had the same error, but when I pinged Yahoo on its own it worked okay.

Ive got the same problem. This is the error that I recieve

cURL Error: Error http_code '403 ' reading 'http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.MYDOMAIN.com%2Fsitemapindex.xml'.

I have tried to ping yahoo alone and it still dont work.

any ideas would be great

I had this same error. It took me several tries but it finally went through. Joy!

I've been trying this repeatedly over the last few weeks and it simply won't ping Yahoo. I just get this:

Google Sitemap Generation (v 1.3.19 20.04.2008 17:24) started

Save path - "/home/limelite/public_html/"
Base URL - "http://www.limelites.co.uk/"
Sitemap location don't specify in robots.txt

Start Pinging ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yahoo! Ping...
cURL Error: Error http_code '403 ' reading 'http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.limelites.co.uk%2Fsitemapindex.xml'.

End Pinging ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Execution Time 0:0.0103

Does anyone know what can be causing this?

I'm having the same issue.... anyone find a solution

new2u:

I'm having the same issue.... anyone find a solution

Not yet... I'm trying a few things from the Yahoo side - but their servers are taking their sweet time with updating/validating.

The 403 error on the site states that 'you don't have access' to that file, or you've gone over your rate limit. Kind of strange since I do manual 'pings' (we're a small shop)

I've verified that the .xml exists and is at the right local access file rights. (the other two MSN/Google work fine)

After reading the yahoo stuff - I've deleted my sitefeed there and have recreated it via the 'ooml' option. Will check it later tonight... and we're not the only ones having the issue - but there's no answers out there on the interweb-thingy just yet.

Stay tuned.

And, of course - if anyone DOES figure it out... hey - can you let us know? :)

Have fun.

try this....put this url in for yahoo ping......worked well for me.....and I couldnt get anything else to work.....http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

put your site in place of yoursite.com

jgiannettict:

try this....put this url in for yahoo ping......worked well for me.....and I couldnt get anything else to work.....http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

put your site in place of yoursite.com
Thanks for sharing!

Questions:

1. Using

http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

with the appid=YahooDemo and not your own (http://developer.yahoo.com/search/siteexplorer/V1/updateNotification.html), this still works?

2. Did you see any increase in Yahoo! Slurp/bot traffic.

Just curious...

jgiannettict:

try this....put this url in for yahoo ping......worked well for me.....and I couldnt get anything else to work.....http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

put your site in place of yoursite.com

Thanks. Worked a treat.

Hi,

I have an odd problem that is mostly self inflicted. My site maps stop working and i uploaded the newest version.
SitemapXML (formerly "Google Sitemap")
Zen Cart™ Version: v1.5.0
Version: 3.0.3
Last Updated: Aug 27 2011
Author: AndrewBerezin
PHP 5.3 Compatible?: Yes

but that version does not seem to work at all. So i deleted all remnants of that version and am now using
Google XML Sitemap Admin
SiteMapXML (3.0.3 27.08.2011 13:11)

Now i get the sitemapcategories file to generate (no EZpages dont have any).

but the sitemap does not generate. i get this error when i run the script

TEXT_HEAD_MAINPAGE

nothing below the above line appears

version numbers
zencart version
You are presently using: v1.3.9h

Google XML Sitemap Admin
SiteMapXML (3.0.3 27.08.2011 13:11)

any help would be greatly appreciated..

Of course, if we actually went to the horses mouth, we'd have seen...

The APIs were scheduled to be shut down on March 2011, but the timeframe for this shut down has been extended for the YDN Site Explorer API's until September 15, 2011.

on: http://developer.yahoo.com/search/siteexplorer/V1/updateNotification.html

:blush:

I've put in about 10 minutes to finding its replacement... but to no avail. Anyone else?!? Anyone?

I still can't figure out how to ping Yahoo. I've read all the suggestions above, none of them work. I gave up pinging Yahoo months ago (last time I replied in this thread)...... Just checked Yahoo and one of our main sarch phrases that gets us in position five on Google is nowhere on Yahoo. Weird!

This mod does not ping Yahoo. Neither do the links like:

http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=http://www.silkblooms.co.uk/sitemapproducts.xml/

This just gives weird errors like:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<Error>
The following errors were detected:
<Message>limit exceeded</Message></Error><!-- ws01.ydn.ac4.yahoo.com uncompressed/chunked Sat Nov 26 10:29:16 PST 2011 -->

Does anyone know how to ping Yahoo?