Google To Drop Support For Sitemaps Ping Endpoints In 6-Months
Google announced it would end support for Sitemaps ping endpoints in six months. Google said this is because they are “not very useful” and the “vast majority of the submissions lead to spam.”
Google said when this is officially deprecated the “HTTP requests (“pings”) to the deprecated REST endpoint will result in a 404 error.” For those historians, Google supported sitemaps pings in 2007.
This comes several months after Google said pinging sitemaps helps get new content discovered by Google sooner. But a couple years ago, Google had to tell SEOs that pinging sitemaps do still work – well, it won’t at the end of this year.
Google also references how Bing stopped supporting anonymous sitemap submissions due to spammers.