Quote Originally Posted by lloyd_borrett View Post
Actually there is no point including pings to ask.com and yahoo anymore. Ask.com no longer accepts submissions, which is why the ping would fail. Ask.com expects to locate your sitemap file via the appropriate information in your robots.txt file. Yahoo no longer accepts pings. It uses Microsoft/Bing now.
Sorry, I did not understand this remark. This is an old well-known information. In sitemapXML these systems not ping a long time.