: Which is faster for sitemap submission: ping or submit via search console? Previously I asked a question about marking sitemap warnings as fixed here: Resetting sitemap warnings in Webmaster Tools

@Michele947

In terms of actual processing, both probably the same.

But a 'ping' wont clear the warnings in the console. Only manual re-submitting via the console will flush the warnings.

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@Pierce454

The errors stay in the list of Search Console even after you clear them for a few days regardless of what you do.

I have used the Search Console fetch & submit a link to notify Google of a change in a page (for example Title or Description change) and have seen it updated in the SERP within the hour.

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@Si4351233

Warnings in the Google search console stay there even after the issue has been resolved. As for the fastest way to report the update to Google it doesn't matter whether you use the ping URL or resubmit the whole sitemap as functionally they work the same in that they extract the URL's and add them to the queue to be re-indexed when they can be. In the case of the ping URL this is useful for submitting a single updated page to the queue for re-crawling whereas submitting an updated sitemap can be useful if you have made a large number of changes to your site and added additional pages. The important thing to note here is that there is no strict requirement to even do either of these as Google will automatically re-index your site as often as it algorithmically believes is necessary to detect when changes have been made to your site. As an example a site I manage gets re-crawled by Google on a daily basis, and yet another site I manage which does not change as frequently only gets re-crawled once every 1-2 weeks.

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