Google search correct ping url

[unlimit]

Hi!
Accordingly to https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/build-sitemap, correct ping url for google is https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=FULL_URL_OF_SITEMAP, but this gem uses http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=%s.

sitemap_generator/lib/sitemap_generator/link_set.rb

Line 128 in 28dd22c

:google => "http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=%s",

What is the correct url?

[davidpan]

I tested it and both addresses work fine.
If you want to use the address you mentioned, you can refer to

SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.ping_search_engines(newengine: 'http://newengine.com/ping?url=%s')

[nanego]

We can certainly close this issue as pings to Google have been deprecated and all requests to these endpoints will result in a 404 error:
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/06/sitemaps-lastmod-ping