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Log in free →Google killed the ping — your sitemap needs lastmod dates now
0:26Google deprecated the indexing ping everyone relied on. What it reads now: the lastmod date in your sitemap. If your pages don't carry one, your updates are invisible.
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If your website is not getting indexed, you need to make sure to do this. I was using Google Ping, which was a suggested solution by a lot of sources, but it's not working anymore. Google has deprecated this source and what Google is relying upon is the sitemap last mod. So basically, if you even have a sitemap, it doesn't matter that Google is going to make sure to index. You need to make sure that your sitemap includes a last modified date for all the pages which you have on your website.