Is ping submissions helpful?

[fisherinjurylaw]

Google’s John Mueller recently explained that submitting a URL for indexing, when it redirects to another URL, doesn’t make sense.

[RH-Calvin]

Pinging is basically an automatic notification to a search engine that a page has been updated and it should be recrawled. Specifically, this is relevant for social properties like blogs, forums and other web 2.0 sites that are indexed by several search engines that keep a record of the page and the date.

[rscomponentseo]

Pinging tool is very popular to index your site or blog to major search engines in short time. ... Ping Submission is an off-page SEO strategy that helps your website get indexed faster in Search Engine Platforms. It is one of the best strategies to get high-quality backlinks for your website.

[PoolMaster]

It's nothing to SEO nowadays. Google easily detects it as a spam activity.