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    Google ping: FAILED.

    This is the first time that I am aware of that a Google ping failed. I ran it again and got the same result. I haven't changed anything. Can someone give me a clue why it might have happened?

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    Google ping: FAILED.
    Yahoo ping: Successful.
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    Google ping: FAILED.
    Yahoo ping: Successful.
    Thanks for any assistance.

    Jim

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    Hello Jim,

    did you you have pings working correctly before (and when it stopped)?
    Could you please open a support ticket with your vbseo_sitemap/ password to check this.
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    Thank you, Oleg.

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    Thank you for details. It turned out that google has just changed their sitemap ping URL, so code modification is required in vbseo_sitemap_functions.php file.
    FIND:
    PHP Code:
               $gurl 'http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap='.urlencode($url); 
    REPLACE WITH:
    PHP Code:
               $gurl 'http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap='.urlencode($url); 
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    Thank you, Oleg, that did the trick. You might want to remove the 2 trailing spaces at the end of the FIND: code. My first attempt at finding it came up "not found". When I back-spaced twice to the semi-colon and tried again, I found the string.

    Thanks again.

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    You are welcome!
    Thank you for reporting.
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    Where did the Yahoo ping come from?

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    thank you,

    i was on the way to open a thread and found the solution here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk View Post
    Thank you for details. It turned out that google has just changed their sitemap ping URL, so code modification is required in vbseo_sitemap_functions.php file.
    FIND:
    PHP Code:
               $gurl 'http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap='.urlencode($url); 
    REPLACE WITH:
    PHP Code:
               $gurl 'http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap='.urlencode($url); 
    Which folder is this file in please.
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    It's located in vbseo_sitemap/ folder.
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    I dont think I have that folder setup somehow.
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    Did you install vBSEO Sitemap?

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    I think i didnt lol..
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    Just downloading it now. What version shall I use ? 1.7 ?
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