{"id":391,"date":"2004-09-16T09:38:18","date_gmt":"2004-09-16T13:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2004\/09\/a_request_for_yahoo\/"},"modified":"2004-09-16T09:38:18","modified_gmt":"2004-09-16T13:38:18","slug":"a_request_for_yahoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/16\/a_request_for_yahoo\/","title":{"rendered":"A Request for Yahoo!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just came across a post by Jeremy Zawodny<\/a> which clarifies some alleged issues with Yahoo’s RSS Ping Server<\/a>. That post reminded me of an issue with their ping server that’s been bugging me for weeks now. The problem is that (as far as I can tell) when I ping Yahoo their robot (YahooFeedSeeker) only reads one of my RSS feeds. Apparently the ping only tells the robot to get the first feed that was registered with Yahoo. For example, when I first added my other blog to Yahoo’s RSS service I added my RDF feed (http:\/\/tradermike.net\/index.rdf), so whenever I ping that’s the only feed that Yahoo reads immediately. <\/p>\n

The problem is that people have added my RSS 2.0 feed (http:\/\/tradermike.net\/index.xml) and my Atom feed (http:\/\/tradermike.net\/atom.xml) to their My Yahoo! pages. So unless I explicitly remember to manually ping Yahoo for each of those feeds the people who have added those feeds won’t see my updates until the Yahoo robot comes by for it’s regularly scheduled visit. To manually ping, I have to send these:<\/p>\n

\nhttp:\/\/api.my.yahoo.com\/rss\/ping?u=http:\/\/tradermike.net\/index.xml<\/p>\n

http:\/\/api.my.yahoo.com\/rss\/ping?u=http:\/\/tradermike.net\/atom.xml\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’d be great if Yahoo’s system recognized that it should read all of my feeds when it gets the initial (automatic) ping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Request for what should be a simple change to the way Yahoo’s RSS Ping Server works<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":180,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/05\/turn_your_my_yahoo_into_a_rss_reader\/","url_meta":{"origin":391,"position":0},"title":"Turn Your ‘My Yahoo!’ Into a RSS Reader","date":"September 5, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Yahoo! does it again... You can now add blogs or anything with an RSS feed to your My Yahoo! page. (via Anil's Daily Links)","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":441,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/17\/some_people_just_dont_understand_rss\/","url_meta":{"origin":391,"position":1},"title":"Some People Just don’t Understand RSS","date":"January 17, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night I happened across a post by Martin Schwimmer entitled \"Why I Have Asked Bloglines To Remove My Site From Its 'Service'\". It generally accepted that BlogLines is by far the number one news aggregator so I had to go read that post. Here's Martin's post (emphasis is mine):\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":467,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/18\/is_weblogscom_filtering_out_certain_blogs\/","url_meta":{"origin":391,"position":2},"title":"Is Weblogs.com Filtering Out Certain Blogs?","date":"May 18, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Terry and some other folks have noticed that their weblogs don't seem to ever be listed on weblogs.com any more. That has raised a question of whether certain sites are being targeted. I haven't been to weblogs.com in such a long time that I don't even know if my sites\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":170,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/26\/localfeeds_rss_geourl\/","url_meta":{"origin":391,"position":3},"title":"LocalFeeds = RSS + GeoURL","date":"August 26, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a site I just noticed via my referrer logs -- LocalFeeds. Here's what it does: Localfeeds is a collection of local news services, gathering headlines from over 500 sources every hour and organizing them by city. Feed discovery and processing is entirely automatic. If a publisher supports certain standards,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/29\/googles_pretty_shrewd\/","url_meta":{"origin":391,"position":4},"title":"Google’s Pretty Shrewd","date":"June 29, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Google's starting to remind me of the megalomaniac Brain, from Pinky and the Brain. They're recently made a new push into the advertising game with their AdSense program: Google AdSense is for web publishers who want to make more revenue from advertising on their site while maintaining editorial quality. AdSense\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Internet"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":97,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/21\/pcworld_gets_with_the_rss_program\/","url_meta":{"origin":391,"position":5},"title":"PCWorld Gets with the RSS Program","date":"July 21, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"PCWorld.com has just started providing RSS feeds for some of their content. They have feeds for their latest news, and for the most popular downloads of the week, month, and year.","rel":"","context":"In "Internet"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}