Pinging Sitemaps using GET requests and/or IndexNow
Posting here before contacting support to see if anyone else has achieved this.
We're all familiar with the sitemap, which is updated automatically by Khoros on a daily basis to reflect newly added (or deleted) threads.
However, Google doesn't check a sitemap every time a site is crawled; a sitemap is checked only the first time that they notice it, and thereafter only when the site pings them to let them know that it's changed.
Due to the size of the Community, waiting for Google to crawl and discover new URLs to index could take longer than is necessary. A more efficient way to speed up the indexing of new content is to notify Google by pinging, which was recently highlighted by Google’s Senior Search Analyst on Twitter.
There are 2 solutions for this:
1. Sending a GET request in a browser or command line
https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=FULL_URL_OF_SITEMAP
2. Using IndexNow. This is also a simple ping so that search engines know that a URL and its content have been added, updated, or deleted, allowing search engines to quickly reflect this change in their search results.
Has anyone used or set up either of these options on their Khoros community?
