Title: [Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] A Problem While Notifying Yahoo?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] A Problem While Notifying Yahoo?

 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/megatherion/)
 * (@megatherion)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-a-problem-while-notifying-yahoo/)
 * I am using WordPress 3.2 RC1 and the most recent version of the plugin. I am 
   getting the following “error” from the plugin when it reports that “There was
   a problem while notifying Yahoo”
 * “The following errors were detected: backend fetch error 400”
 * I’m very new to the sitemap stuff and haven’t a clue how to even begin thinking
   about what the problem could be. 🙁

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 *  [Arne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arnee/)
 * (@arnee)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-a-problem-while-notifying-yahoo/#post-2141396)
 * Thats a error on YAHOOs side. Try again later 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/megatherion/)
 * (@megatherion)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-a-problem-while-notifying-yahoo/#post-2141397)
 * Well, it appears to be a permanent error then. I have gotten the same message
   every day since I posted this topic. I wonder if Yahoo has changed something?
 *  [webjunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webjunk/)
 * (@webjunk)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-a-problem-while-notifying-yahoo/#post-2141399)
 * Yahoo has had issues for years usually just a connectivty issue where the error
   is “Cannot contact” with most sitemap generators but not a major issue. You can
   try submitting the sitemap manually to Yahoo. It also will work on occassion 
   only as I just explained.
 * `http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://YourWebsiteName.
   com`

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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/google-sitemap-generator/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2713572)
 * [XML Sitemap Generator for Google](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/)
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 * Last reply from: [webjunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webjunk/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-a-problem-while-notifying-yahoo/#post-2141399)
 * Status: not resolved