Linkdexing alternative and Linkdexing review of pricing, no-refund terms and the real cost per indexed link

Paying per submission versus paying per indexed link

The table has a blunt conclusion. At the same five-cent unit price, a vendor that returns credits for misses is never more expensive per indexed link than one that does not, and it only ties when every single link indexes. Against Rapid URL Indexer's four-cent tier, Linkdexing cannot match it at any indexing rate, because it would need more than 100 percent of links to land.

What the refund model really changes is who carries the risk. On Linkdexing, a batch of weak links from a site Google has stopped trusting costs the same as a batch of strong ones, and the loss is yours. Its own terms are candid about this: links on pages with a noindex tag, links blocked by robots.txt, and links on non-performing domains will not index, and you are asked not to submit them. On a refund model, those same mistakes cost you a wait rather than money.

Linkdexing does carry some of the risk, in one specific case. Its terms say that if a campaign of at least 20 links indexes below 40 percent, it re-runs that campaign for free. That is a real floor, and it is worth structuring your batches around it. It does not refund anything, and a campaign at 45 percent gets no re-run at all.

What two weeks of manual work buys, and what it does not

Linkdexing's pitch is that automated indexers stopped working and manual work did not. Its site describes a dedicated team of four people, a process that takes around two weeks to reach its best rate, first results in about a day, and a drip feed that can spread a campaign over up to 30 days. It does not describe what the team actually does to each link.

Two claims on its homepage are worth reading slowly. It says it will force Google to crawl your site, pages or backlinks, and elsewhere it says its beta testing reached 96 percent and that a 90 percent rate is typical. Nobody can force Google to crawl or keep a URL, including us: Google decides what to index after it fetches a page. Its own FAQ is more careful than its headline and says outright that it does not guarantee any indexing rate. Treat the FAQ as the contract.

The same homepage compares Linkdexing with what it calls cheap indexers, saying they charge monthly subscriptions, have credits that expire every month and index under 10 percent of links. That describes some tools and not others. Rapid URL Indexer, SpeedyIndex and IndexMeNow all sell credits that never expire, with no subscription, and publish their own rates. Compare the named vendor, not the category.

The timing matters for one practical reason. Submitted links cannot be pulled back once a campaign starts, so a batch with a typo, a redirect or a noindexed page stays in the queue and on the bill. Check every link before it goes in, not after.

Where Linkdexing is genuinely stronger

Three things, and they are real. The first is the entry price. $10 buys 200 submissions, which is a cheaper first test than most rivals: Rapid URL Indexer's smallest pack is $25. If you want to know whether a service works on your kind of links before spending real money, Linkdexing is easy to try.

The second is re-indexing. Linkdexing lists re-indexing links that Google previously dropped as a core feature. Links that fell out of the index are a common problem for anyone who has been building links for a few years, and many refund-model vendors do not call that job out at all.

The third is pace. A drip feed of up to 30 days suits link builders who do not want hundreds of links to appear at once, and a manual queue with no subscription means a quiet month costs nothing.

Against all three sits the question that decides most purchases in this category: are the missing pages yours? If they are backlinks on other people's domains, Linkdexing, Rapid URL Indexer and their rivals are the right kind of tool, and the choice between them is the arithmetic above. If they are pages on your own site, paying five cents a page for an unofficial route is the wrong tool at any rate.

Pages on your own site need official channels, not a link indexer

Google retired its public Add URL form and tied submission to verified ownership. For a property you have verified, three official routes exist: XML sitemaps, the Google Indexing API, and IndexNow, which Bing and several other engines read. Request Indexing in Search Console covers the rest by hand, at roughly ten to twelve URLs a day per property.

Indexing runs those routes for you. It connects to your Search Console property, submits through the Google Indexing API and Bing IndexNow, keeps sitemaps clean, and monitors coverage on both engines. When a page stays out, it says in plain English whether Google never crawled it or crawled it and declined, because those two need opposite fixes.

That distinction is exactly where per-submission billing hurts on an owned site. A page marked "Crawled - currently not indexed" has already been read. Sending it through any indexer again changes nothing Google evaluated, so every resubmission is five cents spent on the same answer. The fix is the page, and a report that names the reason is what gets it fixed.

Plans start at $29 a month billed yearly, or $59 month to month, for about 2,000 submitted URLs a month with daily monitoring and alerts. Growth at $47 adds hourly monitoring, auto-resubmit, de-index alerts and time-to-index tracking. Agency at $119 adds multi-site management, API access and white-label reports.

How to test Linkdexing before you commit a budget

Split your list by owner first. Pages on domains you have verified go in one list, links on everyone else's sites go in another. The two lists need different tools, and this split alone settles most of the decision.

For the backlink list, skip the 10 free credits: ten links is too few to read a rate from, and it falls below the 20-link minimum for the free re-run. Buy the $10 pack instead and submit 200 links you would have pushed anyway, after removing anything noindexed, redirected or blocked by robots.txt. Record which were already indexed before you start, because pages get indexed on their own and you cannot credit a tool for those.

Recheck at day 7 and day 14. Divide $10 by the number of links that newly indexed and you have your real price per indexed link. Run the same 200-link test on a refund-model vendor in the same week and the purchase decides itself on your own numbers rather than on anybody's homepage.

For the owned list, find out how many URLs are missing today and why before buying anything. If most were never crawled, official submission will move the number. If most were crawled and declined, no indexer of any kind will, and the budget belongs on the pages.