A Sitemap "ping" is when you send a special signal to Google (or Yahoo or Bing) that lets them know that you've made a change to your sitemap. It's faster and easier for Google to accept "Ping" messages because responsible webmasters will let Google know when they've made changes to their sitemaps.
In our experience you'll need to first create your webmaster account before trying to Ping. Your account lets you make your first sitemap submission manually. After that the ping interface will handle it. To make your first manual submission, create accounts with each search engine:
- Google: http://www.google.com/webmasters/
- Yahoo: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
- Bing: http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmasters/
Once you're verified and your sitemap was successfully submitted and accepted the first time, you're ready to use the Ping interface. To ping all you need to do is load up the following URLs in your browser:
- http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A//www.example.com/sitemap.xml
- http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?url=http%3A//www.example.com/sitemap.xml
- http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.example.com/sitemap.xml
You can automate this whole process using sitemap software, including Inspyder Sitemap Creator. Inspyder Sitemap Creator can automatically crawl, upload and ping Google for you, making the entire process fast and easy.
Pinging won't force Google to read your sitemap file. It still may take a few hours for them to come around and check for changes. Remember, a lot of webmasters are submitting sitemaps all the time so you might need to wait for a bit.
Properly used, pinging can save you a lot of time and help get your website changes indexed by Google just a little bit faster.
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