Title: [Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] There was a problem while notifying Ask.com
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] There was a problem while notifying Ask.com

 *  [Art2010](https://wordpress.org/support/users/art2010/)
 * (@art2010)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-there-was-a-problem-while-notifying-askcom-1/)
 * I receive this error:
 * Ping Test
 * Trying to ping: [http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Ffiresafetylabs.com%2Fsitemap.xml.gz](http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Ffiresafetylabs.com%2Fsitemap.xml.gz).
   The sections below should give you an idea whats going on.
    Errors, Warnings,
   Notices: WP_DEBUG was set to false somewhere before. You might not see all debug
   information until you remove this declaration!
 * Notice: WP HTTP API Web Request failed: connect() timed out! in /hermes/bosweb/
   web083/b832/ipg.macready/wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap-
   core.php on line 2373
    Result (text only): Result (HTML):
 * Please help!
 * Thanks
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/)

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 * Last reply from: [Art2010](https://wordpress.org/support/users/art2010/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-there-was-a-problem-while-notifying-askcom-1/)
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