[Recommendation] Sitemaps ping endpoint is going away | Google SEO

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Sitemaps ping has ponged! We're announcing the deprecation of the sitemaps 'ping' endpoint (effective end of year), and providing some recommendations for the use of the lastmod element:

Pinging the Google sitemap will no longer be possible.

Article from yesterday: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/06/sitemaps-lastmod-ping