Sitemaps ping endpoint is going away Google, Monday, June 26, 2023 The Sitemaps Protocol was introduced in 2005 to help search engines with the discovery of new URLs, and also to help with scheduling new crawls of already discovered URLs. It’s a wildly popular protocol that hasn’t changed for over 15 years. While the general … Continue reading Google To Deprecate Sitemaps ‘Ping’ Endpoint Later This Year →