Yahoo sitemap ping URL?

Question

We recently used the URL:

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

To ping Yahoo about sitemap changes. This URL turned out to time out and is not reachable.

Then I googled and on the Yahoo site I found a different URL which also times out:

http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=....

What is the correct address to ping Yahoo about sitemap changes?

Yahoo displays results from Bing, why do you want to ping Yahoo for sitemap changes? — Zistoloen, Commented Jul 9, 2014 at 8:21
@Zistoloen wow I didn't know that. Such information :-O Thanks!! — Daniel W., Commented Jul 9, 2014 at 8:27
@Zistoloen Do you have a working URL for ask? http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap= gives 404 — Daniel W., Commented Jul 9, 2014 at 8:29
Sorry, Ask has so few users than I only optimize SEO of my sites for Google and Bing. — Zistoloen, Commented Jul 9, 2014 at 8:41
For Ask see: Ask.com sitemap crawler down (for good)? -- It is down for good because they "utilize a crawling method of adding new content to our search index". — Stephen Ostermiller, Commented Jul 9, 2014 at 20:02

Stephen Ostermiller · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-09 20:01:27Z

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Here is Yahoo's documentation for their sitemap ping. At the top there is a prominent notification that Yahoo webmaster tools have moved to Bing webmaster tools.

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That is why the ping times out. It is no longer supported and you should use Bing webmaster tools instead.

http://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com/sitemap.xml

answered Jul 9, 2014 at 20:01

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