sitemap url for Yahoo and MSN?

[digitalfilm]

does anyone know the correct URLs to enter to the wonderful sitemap plugin to also ping Yahoo and MSN? Many thanks

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Do Yahoo and MSN have a sitemap indexer like google has? I thought only google offered this.

Regards,
Garvin

[digitalfilm]

i got the idea of checking form the plugin. the manual submission url for Yahoo is:

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

and for MSN:
http://beta.search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=WSUT

[digitalfilm]

i deleted the plugin using the admin interface. i toggled between netmirror and s9y and back and that fixed spartacus.

but still have no luck with the sorting. I haven't edited the plugin or php as it is beyond the scope of my talents unless i have a cookbook of do this, then that, then this, etc.

thank you for helping me figure this out.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Uh, those URLs do not deal with sitemap submission. It's something completely different than what the google sitemap API supports and what the sitemap plugin is for.

Please check https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools ... about.html to see what the google sitemap does!

A plugin for the sites you listed cannot be created, because they do not allow submissions from bots/plugins. There's a captcha that cannot be passed by a serendipity plugin, so you need to do that manually. Unlike Google sitemap, which is explicitly for automatted submission.

Best regards,
Garvin

[digitalfilm]

but i read something about an api in beta, as well as support for the format of the map format from the plugin. when i find those references i will post them here. in the meantime, thank you for Serendipity. It rocks!

[mattsches]

Well, there has been news last year that Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! joined forces in creating a sitemap standard. Haven't heard anything about this since then, but a quick search returned this page at Yahoo!. Maybe this helps.

- Mattsches

[pickle]

AFAIK, Microsoft support sitemaps, but don't yet support sitemaps: They agree to the standard, but haven't fully implemented it yet.

Both Yahoo's and MSN's automatic sitemap ping URLs seem to be broken, but anyway, here's the information I found a while ago, since it might get you closer to what you're looking for..

The URL for MSN/Live search is supposedly "http://search.live.com/ping?sitemap=<your sitemap url>" but this doesn't seem to work.

Yahoo's seems to be "https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/s ... emap=<your sitemap url>", but I can't confirm this (I don't get a confirmation, I get a login page).

If these are correct, then you should be able to ping properly using the plugin in Serendipity with this setting for your ping URL list: "http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ ... sitemap=%s".