So Yahoo no longer works with sitemap? How do I send to Bing with VBSEO 3.3?

All of a sudden on September 16th 2011 all my Yahoo site map submissions failed. It appears the URL that I've been sending to all these years no longer exists?

Where should we be sending our Yahoo sitemaps?

On a side note, is there a way to setup sitemap 2.5 and VBSEO 3.3 to send out to Bing?

Yahoo has discontinued the ping service. There is nothing we can do. Yahoo uses the Bing engine now anyway, so it's not really something to worry about.

You should upgrade to sitemap 3.0 as it has provisions for Bing in it already.

Is there a way to stop the ping to Yahoo... or is that worth worrying about?

You can take the line out of the code in sitemap_functions file, but it really doesn't do any harm to leave it. The ping just gets a 404 almost immediately and continues on with the ping list.

Originally Posted by verbs

All of a sudden on September 16th 2011 all my Yahoo site map submissions failed. It appears the URL that I've been sending to all these years no longer exists?

Yeah, I've had the same issue and although I realize that Yahoo discontinued the ping itself- it's Definitely NOT picking up Bings submissions.

When I typed in site:mydomain.com - only 12 of my 254,000 urls show in the yahoo search engine now. I'm not quite sure why that's happening!

Originally Posted by Budget101

Yeah, I've had the same issue and although I realize that Yahoo discontinued the ping itself- it's Definitely NOT picking up Bings submissions.

When I typed in site:mydomain.com - only 12 of my 254,000 urls show in the yahoo search engine now. I'm not quite sure why that's happening!

I just checked Bing and Yahoo, they both have similar results.

33,400 results and I also get the Yahoo Ping Error.

Originally Posted by gedsta

I just checked Bing and Yahoo, they both have similar results.

33,400 results and I also get the Yahoo Ping Error.

Yeah- very sad considering that google returns the following:

About 238,000 results (0.26 seconds)