How to ping search engines when sitemap is updated using php

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Informing search engines that your site content has been updated is an important task. Google downloads your site-map automatically every few days, or even few hours If you are running a big website. However, Webmasters like to ping Search Engines automatically after every update on the website. Here are few links for several search engines that you may want to ping.

• Google

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  http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=http://site.com/sitemap.xml

• Yahoo

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  http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=http://site.com/sitemap.xml

• Bing

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  http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://site.com/sitemap.xml

• Ask

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  http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://site.com/sitemap.xml

Here is how you can do it with php.

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<?php

function pingMySitemap($url){
    @file_get_contents("http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=" . urlencode$url));
    @file_get_contents("http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=" . urlencode($url));
    @file_get_contents("http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=" . urlencode($url));
    @file_get_contents("http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=" . urlencode($url));
}

// using the function..
pingMySitemap("https://robot.lk/sitemap.php");

?>