An indexing service’s headline success rate is useful only when you know which URLs were submitted, how indexing was checked, and when. A batch of guest posts and a batch of autogenerated profiles can produce very different results with the same service. One blended percentage hides that difference.
Compare like URLs with like URLs
| URL batch | What matters most | What to compare |
|---|---|---|
| Your own site pages | Whether a useful, crawlable page enters and stays in the index | Fix technical blocks first; check the exact URL in Search Console, then compare Day 7 and Day 30 status. |
| Guest posts, niche edits and maintained PBN articles | The result for each valuable donor page | Track each final URL, Day 7 status, Day 30 status and cost per observed indexed URL. State the verification method; keep thin PBN pages in a separate group. |
| Profiles, Web 2.0 and Tier-2/Tier-3 pages | Unit economics at scale | Compare minimum spend, cost per submission, bulk/API workflow and the indexed share of the same URL type. |
| Parasite SEO pages | The submitted page may itself be the page you want to rank | Track time to indexing and whether the page remains indexed at Day 30; do not mix it with backlink donor URLs. |
| Doorway-style or heavily autogenerated pages | Page quality can dominate the outcome | Report this group separately. Repeated failure across services does not identify the service as the cause. |
Illustration, not a test result: imagine one service indexes 8 of 10 guest posts and 15 of 100 profile pages by Day 7. Its combined result is 23 of 110, about 21%. That single number conceals an 80% result for one URL type and 15% for the other. Check both groups again at Day 30; an early hit that disappears is not the same outcome as a page that stays indexed.
For a comparison between providers, give each provider similar URLs from the same group and record the starting status. Keep an unsubmitted group when possible. Use the same check dates and state how each status was observed. Search Console can inspect pages on a property you control; it cannot give you the same access to someone else’s donor page. Do not present a provider’s report or a missing site: result as independently confirmed Google indexing status. Our small-batch trial guide
shows the workflow.
What our ranking scores mean
Our six-service ranking helps shortlist a purchase and workflow. Its existing scores are editorial judgments about available information and buyer fit, not measured indexing percentages. We use the same five weights shown on the homepage:
| Editorial criterion | Weight | What we check |
|---|---|---|
| Quality of available evidence | 35% | Whether terms, claims and observations have identifiable sources and clear limits. A supplier claim is not our own test. |
| Purchase cost and billing | 25% | Minimum payment, usable capacity, when a credit is charged, and the cost of the batch you actually need. |
| Community track record | 20% | Dated, relevant user reports rather than an isolated testimonial or claimed success rate. |
| Transparency and refunds | 12% | Published conditions, exclusions and whether the remedy is cash or returned credits. |
| Platform and UX | 8% | Uploads, reporting, API and the work needed to manage a batch. |
Indexing outcome matters most to the buyer. We do not give it a made-up percentage in the score when comparable, independently checked batches are unavailable. If we obtain such results, they should appear by URL type, check date and verification method beside the editorial score. The existing order and scores do not imply a controlled performance comparison.
Make the shortlist useful
For a few valuable donor URLs, compare the minimum purchase and how failed URLs are treated; start with the small-batch buying guide . For ready recurring batches, compare upload, reports and billing in the SpeedyIndex review and 2index review . For a blocked, duplicate or weak page, use the indexing diagnostics before paying for submission.
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