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Is there a benefit to ping your URL's from websites like this ?

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Short answer: third‑party “ping this URL” sites rarely help the way people expect. They won’t raise rankings, and Google has explicitly stopped relying on unauthenticated sitemap pings because they produced a lot of spam. For discovery and timely crawling, use search‑engine‑provided channels instead — this reconciles the useful intent behind comments from and with ’s recommendation to use official webmaster tools. Google: sitemaps ping endpoint is going away.

Practical steps for Google: verify your property in Google Search Console, submit an XML sitemap (or list it in robots.txt), and use the URL Inspection / “Request indexing” for a few priority pages when needed. Keep your sitemap’s lastmod accurate (Google uses it); don’t rely on changefreq/priority. If a ping service returns errors, troubleshoot the page first (HTTP status, robots, noindex, canonical) and then re-submit via Search Console. · Sitemaps overview.

For Bing and other IndexNow participants: enable IndexNow or use Bing’s URL/Content Submission APIs — these are designed to push updates quickly and are widely supported by CMS plugins (WordPress, Shopify, etc.). Example single‑URL notify (replace key and URL):

curl "https://www.bing.com/indexnow?url=https://example.com/page.html&key=YOUR_KEY"

IndexNow docs · Bing Webmaster URL Submission / IndexNow guidance.

Troubleshooting & cautions (for and others): avoid mass/automated re‑pings for every tiny edit (it can look like spam). If pings fail, check server response codes and logs, confirm pages return 200, ensure robots.txt and meta tags allow crawling, and monitor Search Console / Bing Webmaster coverage and crawl stats. Review how HTTP 4xx/5xx and network errors affect crawling and indexing when pages are unreachable. How HTTP status & network errors affect Google Search · Bing Webmaster tools guidance.

Summary: use sitemaps + Search Console for Google, IndexNow / Bing APIs for Bing/participants, and only use third‑party ping lists as a last resort after confirming basics (status codes, robots, sitemaps) are correct.

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Member Avatar for Kelly Burby

Well, Pinging doesn't adds any value to website's rank-ability in Search Engines but it does help search engine Web crawlers to discover content quicker that is required to attract traffic.

Member Avatar for davijhon

its benefitial for the websites and SEO. Google know about the updates on the site due to the ping. The main goal is to increase the probability of your website getting index by bing , Google and the likes.

Member Avatar for almostbob

the best way to submit to a search engine, is via the search engine's webmaster utilities.
google (important) bing (useful) ask (ok) and yahoo (who gives a f###) have webmaster pages

second best, is infinitely better than not at all

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Member Avatar for robertlaar

Thanks guys

Member Avatar for Bala_2

URL pings means sometime website not showing and display error also that need to finging error.

Member Avatar for bijutoha

Kelly Burby! First thanks so much... Second, I just want to get a clear conception about this brief

"Using the Ping services is a way for you to inform the search engines to Index your newly added or updated Blog post pages into their database.
As a result of all this search engines are able to count your blog back-links quickly, which in turn is useful to your site ranking; besides Ping is also helpful to your blog SEO. Pinging sites are used to complete your blog indexing process quickly."

Is it contradicts from what you thought?

Member Avatar for sumoncpk

Useful and informative discussion . Thank to all .

Member Avatar for Gennry

Pinging doesn't adds any value to website's rank-ability in Search Engines but it does help search engine Web crawlers to discover content quicker that is required to attract traffic.

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