Yahoo’s Ping service allows you to notify Yahoo when your blog changes. By sending a small ping to Yahoo you let them know you’ve updated your blog.

How do you ping Yahoo?

To ping Yahoo you use the following address

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=(your blog address)

EX: http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://rosedesrochers.todays-woman.net/wp-rss2.php]

(replace the rosedesrochers.todays-woman.net/wp-rss2.php part with your own blog URL)

Copy and paste the URL (complete with your blog’s address at the end) into your browser and hit enter.

This will automatically ping “My Yahoo” and notify the spider bot that it needs to visit your blog and update your content.

If you use Wordpress you can set your blog software up to ping Yahoo automatically by clicking on options, writing and entering http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping in the update services box.

Get Your RSS Feed Listed Within Yahoo

You can submit your blog to Yahoo here: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request.

You should also add your blog feed to your My Yahoo page. See Submit Your Feed for instructions on how to distribute your content on Yahoo. This will get your blog included in Yahoo’s version of blog search.

Syndicate Your Content on My Yahoo

“Make it really simple for anyone to subscribe to your RSS feed with a single click. Just follow these “Syndicate your blog content on My Yahoo” steps to put an “Add-to-My Yahoo!” button on your site.”

If you have audio, video, or visual content on your blog, you can submit your Media RSS Feed here.

I hope you found this post helpful.