Google Will Disable The Ping Endpoint In Sitemaps In 2023 - Amigoways
Google Will Disable The Ping Endpoint In Sitemaps Later This Year Google is ending support for sitemap ping and the endpoint will stop working by the end of this year. Google has announced that it is announcing a “disabling of the sitemap ping endpoint.” This means that HTTP ping requests will result in a 404 error. Google said the Web Protocol defines an unauthenticated REST method for submitting sitemaps to search engines. This is a way to “ping” or tell search engines that the sitemap has been updated. Google said that both “internal research” and “other search engines like Bing” say that these unverified sitemaps are not particularly useful at this time. Google said that most submissions lead to spam. Google said you can still submit your sitemap through the Google Search Console as well as robots.txt files. Google said that you should also use the lastmod element in your sitemap file if you are sure that the date listed is the actual date the page was...