Configuring MovableType to Ping Yahoo: Three Easy Steps

Jeremy,

Kudos on all the hard work.

So, will you guys be creating a changes.xml with the received ping info?

Dave

Why's it called pinging when ping isn't even used?

Ping comes from the sonar "ping" that radar uses to work out if something is there or not. So this, whilst working in the opposite direction, is still a ping.

Not sure if this is important but:
Ping 'http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2' failed: Ping error: Unable to process

SONAR and RADAR are two totally completely different things. Sonar sends sound waves, that are refracted and reflected along a given path until it is returned to the sender (via reflection). This can give you a pattern of change over time. SONAR is the only (between these two) one that uses the term PING" becuase it actually sounds like a ping when ACTIVE SONAR is pulsed against an object.

RADAR does not use sound as a mechanism to detect objects. Hence, no PING return like in SONAR

Sorry had to clarify that.

Also - in SONAR, the PING is heard by both sides of the equation, the sender and the sendee.

jm

Now I'm even more confused! So I need SONAR or RADAR to use Yahoo's new RSS service?

Thanks Jeremy,

I also ping blogrolling.com using the same method. The URL to enter is:

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

Thanks for the tip Jeremy. I always like to find new places to ping when I make a new post. It certainly helps bring in that traffic.

> Hence, no PING return like in SONAR

Isn't it also called PING if something appears on radar?

And since you can also use radar actively, you can even ping other objects (and they can realize they are on radar).

They're called BLIPS on the RADAR screen.

Thanks! This has been a big help and I love this feature of Yahoo.

please send for me the stepes of creating yahoo addres

You might want to check out my post "comprehensive list of places to ping to let the world know you've updated your blog" on my blog about how to blog. The url is http://blogging.typepad.com/how_to_blog/2004/08/ping_services_t.html

Thanks for the walkthrough on pinging yahoo :)

Thanks for your help with pings! I'd just spent a week trying to figure this out and you said it so well.

Getting 403s for the ping URL now.

Everyone is. I pinged the team (no pun intended) and they're working to fix it.

Any update on this? I'm still getting the 403.

according to http://publisher.yahoo.com/rss_guide/submit.php
the new URL is
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=[YOUR RSS URL]

But it does not work for me.

Antony,

I just double-checked http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u= on both my index.xml feed and Feedburner feed urls and it worked fine. What was the error that you were getting?

Ian Kennedy
ikennedy@yahoo-inc.com
Yahoo Publisher Network

I hope someone is still looking at this thread. I get the error: "Refresh failed. Feed not found: http://www.jdvent.com/rss/genRSS_gelsey_abcdefgh.xml"

The feed is definitely there and I can read it using several different readers. On my "My Yahoo" page the feed says no new items in the last three days even though I update it regularly.

I'm pulling my hair out.

- Don

Sorry Don. We've moved the main ping entrypoint to ping.feeds.yahoo.com (instead of api.my). Same path/api as before.

The old entrypoint was supposed to map transparently, but something got messed up. We'll get it fixed asap.

http://ping.feeds.yahoo.com?u= Showing "Sorry, the page you requested was not found."

Great find, I'm updating my wordpress pings now.

Thanks

Avinash: you have to put the "/rss/ping?u=" at the end of the new URL.

Hi! jeremy, i want to know the different between pinging and run, has knowing the difference between the HTML and http. so email me more about the use of ping