Ask.com is changing or How plugin for wordpress generated sitemap
It took me to update sitemap.xml after I updated our site. The site works on Wordpress, so even during the installation of Wordpress, the XML Sitemap plugin was installed and activated. I go into the parameters of the plugin, start the generation Sitemap, and what do I see?
There is really no submissions.ask.com site, I'm going to look for what happened to it: earlier it was useful to notify about a new sitemap, otherwise why would a plug-in a month ago be able to do it?
I find the answer of some Eric from Ask.com:
It turns out that the ask.com robot stopped using sitemaps, well, the subdomain was quietly turned off. It must be that ask.com means so little to promote sites on the Runet that news of this in two weeks did not appear on Habré (please correct it if I didn’t find it after all).
Contrary to the promise to update the FAQ, the news about submissions.ask.com on the site ask.com is not searched, and the mention of the problem is found in the comments to the instructions on how to use the sitemap.
However, this is not a problem, of course: in the settings of the plug-in, you can simply disable reporting information to ask.com, and it will work as before - without error messages.
Ping test
Trying to ping: submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2F <censorship deleted site address>% 2Fsitemap.xml. Sections of whats going on.
Errors, Warnings, Notices:
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Notice: WP HTTP API Web Request failed: Couldn't resolve host 'submissions.ask.com' in / home / <censorship deleted site address> /wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap-core.php on line 2364
There is really no submissions.ask.com site, I'm going to look for what happened to it: earlier it was useful to notify about a new sitemap, otherwise why would a plug-in a month ago be able to do it?
I find the answer of some Eric from Ask.com:
We now use a crawling method. This is a subdomain that you’re referring to just over the weekend
It turns out that the ask.com robot stopped using sitemaps, well, the subdomain was quietly turned off. It must be that ask.com means so little to promote sites on the Runet that news of this in two weeks did not appear on Habré (please correct it if I didn’t find it after all).
Contrary to the promise to update the FAQ, the news about submissions.ask.com on the site ask.com is not searched, and the mention of the problem is found in the comments to the instructions on how to use the sitemap.
However, this is not a problem, of course: in the settings of the plug-in, you can simply disable reporting information to ask.com, and it will work as before - without error messages.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/147139/
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