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Hi,

We are currently running S9Y but ran into a snag it seems if trying to use Yahoo! ads on our site, here is the response I recevied about it, is anyone else running into issues as well?

Thanks.

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Hello,

In order to use our RSS feature you will need to have an .XML version of your web site. Note that it typically ends in .xml or .rdf, and is not the URL of the HTML or PHP version of your web site.

It appears that you do have a XML version however, you will also need to use either WordPress or Movable Type because these are the only two platforms that are currently compatible with ads in RSS.

If all of the criteria described above is met, then you should simply be able to place the RSS code into the XML version of your web site.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if we can be of any further assistance.

Sincerely,

Customer Solutions
Yahoo! Publisher Network

i tried with Yahoo ads and they work,
but this ads in RSS is a different thing. can u tell me the site where the i can chek the RSS ads from yahoo

u could try to get ur feeds from feedburner like i do, and then use that. that might work. where u specify ur rss feed you could instead the one u get from feedburner.

Our feed is located here ...

http://www.pspdrive.com/v1.0/feeds/index.rss2

If you peek it you will notice them:

<!-- begin(Yahoo ad) --><a href="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/30308/457/click/"><img src="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/30308/4 ... 5496438820" alt="Ads by Yahoo!" border="0"/></a><!-- end(Yahoo ad) -->

To accomplish what they were looking for I modified this in printEntries_rss:
$ext = '<br/><br/> <!-- begin(Yahoo ad) --><a href="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/30308/' . $entry['id'] . '/click/"><img src="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/30308/' . $entry['id'] . '/img/?url=' . $entryLink . '&pid=5496438820" alt="Ads by Yahoo!" border="0"/></a><!-- end(Yahoo ad) -->';

The part I don't get is that a straight forward HTTP request will yield the correct ad yet my RSS reader (NetNewsWire) will give a generic Yahoo! ad, which makes no sense.

I too can also get regular web ads, Id just like to get the RSS feed going as well but when it says we only "support" WordPress or MT but they are only looking for the article ID and GUID what would cause Serendipity to not be a supported blog setup?

Thanks!

The reason your RSS reader shows different results is that RSS Readers do not submit cookies or javascript runtime data to other servers, like your browser may do when you load an image.

I also do not think that there is a reason why Serendipity would not be compatible or work here. All RSS blogs use the same means. BTW, the current Serendipity nightlies allow you to create Smarty Templates for RSS feeds, which might be an easy solution for you to integrate ads. You could also add a non-Yahoo ad version by creating a new RSS-Feed template and using ?version=my-rss2 links to rss.php for example.

Best regards,
Garvin

i have seen google ads in feedburner feeds. (works inside browser and google reader) here is an example
guess u can get ur feed from feedburner, yahoo ads might work in that.