Mistake: pinging Google to resubmit on every deploy

Mistake: pinging Google to resubmit on every deploy

Hammering the resubmit endpoint (or the deprecated ping URL) on every CI run does nothing useful and can look like abuse. Google deprecated sitemap ping in 2023 — it is a no-op now.

Fix checklist:
— ✅ Do NOT call the old /ping?sitemap= endpoint — it is dead, remove it from CI
— Let Google poll your sitemap on its own schedule; a fresh, accurate lastmod is the real signal
— ✅ Submit the sitemap in GSC once; re-submit manually only after a structural change (new index, moved path)
— For genuinely urgent single URLs, use the URL Inspection "Request indexing" — sparingly

Definition of done: grep CI/cron for any sitemap ping or auto-resubmit call. Zero hits. Discovery now rides on lastmod accuracy, which you verify separately.