Sitemap Generator in Laravel.

Hello guys. I have code like that:

<?php


namespace App\Console\Commands;


use Illuminate\Console\Command;
use App\Services\Sitemap\SitemapService;


class GenerateSitemap extends Command
{
    protected
$signature
= 'sitemap:generate';
    protected
$denoscription
= 'Generate sitemap.xml including news';


    public function handle(SitemapService
$service
)
    {
       
$path
= public_path('sitemap.xml');
       
       
$service
->generate(
$path
);


       
$this
->info("Sitemap generated: {
$path
}");
    }
}

<?php


declare(strict_types=1);


namespace App\Services\Sitemap;


use Carbon\Carbon;
use SimpleXMLElement;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\File;


class SitemapService
{
    private const BASE_URL = 'https://example.com';


    public function generate(string
$outputPath
): void
    {
       
$xml
= new SimpleXMLElement(
            '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
            <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"></urlset>'
        );


       
$staticUrls
= [
            ['/', 'daily', '1.0'],
            ['/section-a', 'daily', '0.9'],
            ['/section-b', 'hourly', '0.9'],
            ['/section-c', 'weekly', '0.8'],
            ['/section-d', 'daily', '0.8'],
            ['/about', 'monthly', '0.5'],
            ['/contact', 'monthly', '0.5'],
        ];


        foreach (
$staticUrls
as [
$path
,
$freq
,
$priority
]) {
           
$this
->addUrl(
               
$xml
,
                self::BASE_URL .
$path
,
                now(),
               
$freq
,
               
$priority
            );
        }


        Model::where('status', 1)
            ->whereNotNull('published_at')
            ->latest('published_at')
            ->chunk(500, function (
$items
) use (
$xml
) {
                foreach (
$items
as
$item
) {
                   
$this
->addUrl(
                       
$xml
,
                        self::BASE_URL . '/content/' .
$item
->
slug
,
                       
$item
->
published_at
,
                        'daily',
                        '0.8'
                    );
                }
            });


        File::put(
$outputPath
,
$xml
->asXML());
    }


    private function addUrl(
        SimpleXMLElement
$xml
,
        string
$loc
,
        mixed
$lastmod
,
        string
$freq
,
        string
$priority
    ): void {
       
$url
=
$xml
->addChild('url');
       
$url
->addChild('loc', htmlspecialchars(
$loc
, ENT_XML1));
       
$url
->addChild('lastmod', Carbon::parse(
$lastmod
)->toDateString());
       
$url
->addChild('changefreq',
$freq
);
       
$url
->addChild('priority',
$priority
);
    }
}

Schedule::command('sitemap:generate')
    ->hourly()
    ->name('hourly-sitemap-refresh');

It generate sitemap.xml automatically. And update it in one hour right? Now is there is a way that ping it to search engines automatically? and how can I check it works correctly?

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