{
  "schema_version": "1.1",
  "id": "ping-google-with-your-sitemap",
  "slug": "ping-google-with-your-sitemap",
  "url": "https://groundedkit.com/claims/ping-google-with-your-sitemap/",
  "api_url": "https://groundedkit.com/api/claims/ping-google-with-your-sitemap.json",
  "claim": "Ping Google's sitemap endpoint (google.com/ping?sitemap=) after every update to get pages crawled faster",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"Ping Google when you update your sitemap\"",
  "verdict": "outdated",
  "verdict_definition": "Source found and quoted correctly, but old enough that the market has changed.",
  "confidence": "high",
  "rating": {
    "value": 3,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "Google Search Central Blog",
    "title": "Sitemaps ping endpoint is going away (June 26, 2023)",
    "year": "Deprecated 2023"
  },
  "quote": "To wit, we're deprecating our support for sitemaps ping and the endpoint will stop functioning in 6 months. You can still submit your sitemaps through robots.txt and Search Console , but the HTTP requests (\"pings\") to the deprecated REST endpoint will result in a 404 error.",
  "method": "Official Google Search Central blog announcement.",
  "drift": [
    "Superseded: Google retired the ping endpoint; submit sitemaps via robots.txt or Search Console",
    "Many SEO plugins and checklists still describe pinging"
  ],
  "interest": "Google operates Google Search and documents its own systems.",
  "safe_rephrasing": "Google retired its sitemap ping endpoint after a June 2023 announcement; pings now return 404, so submit sitemaps through robots.txt or Search Console instead.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Google Search Central Blog — Sitemaps ping endpoint is going away",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/06/sitemaps-lastmod-ping",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "stat_check",
  "as_of": "Endpoint retired about six months after June 26, 2023",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-17",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-17",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}