Limit exceeded on sitemap submission to Yahoo.

Question

I'm getting an error saying, "Limit exceeded" when I am submitting my sitemap to Yahoo.

Can anyone explain what the error means?

Possible problems: 1. Too many submissions: we certainly don't send the sitemap 5000 times in a day. 2. The sitemap is too big: Our sitemap is a mere 40k file and gzipped.

Thanks.

Answer 1

It plainly says on the Yahoo website that it is caused by exceeding 5000 requests in a 24 hour period. http://developer.yahoo.com/search/rate.html

So, it would seem that it is caused by your program making more than 5,000 requests (perhaps you have a bug)

NOTE: It is 5000 requests in 24hours for that specific IP. So if you have shared hosting, and someone else is making requests, they will be adding to your limit.

Answer 2

www.sitemapwriter.com will give this error on yahoo. Jut submit the sitemap directly from yahoo's website.