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Google To Deprecate Sitemaps ‘Ping’ Endpoint Later This Year

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

TechSEO360 Crawler Guide – Sitemaps and Technical SEO Audits

By Ruud Hein May 21st, 2019 For 10 years now, the crawler I use for the technical SEO website audits I do at Search Engine People is what’s nowadays called TechSEO360. A hidden gem; cost-effective, efficient (crawls any site of any size), forward looking (e.g.: had AJAX support before other such crawler tools did). I’ve … Continue reading TechSEO360 Crawler Guide – Sitemaps and Technical SEO Audits