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A ping is not an indexed link

Links Indexer is candid about this, and deserves credit for it. Its FAQ separates crawling from indexing and says that only the search engine decides what gets indexed, that no one can guarantee it, and that anyone promising 100 percent is lying. What it sells is a crawl invitation: each link is pinged, a crawl is requested, and the dashboard shows whether the link was pinged and crawled.

It does publish an indexing range from its own tests. The FAQ gives 70 to 95 percent in one answer and 50 to 95 percent in another. Those are the vendor's own figures across its own test pages, and the two answers do not agree, so treat them as marketing, not a forecast for your batch.

The practical consequence is that you have to check indexing yourself. If you report to clients, that means a second tool, or a manual check, for every batch. Two figures decide whether the cheap ping is still cheap: how many links you can verify, and what the verification costs.

Campaigns are deleted a week after they finish

The FAQ explains that all campaigns are purged 7 days after completion, on the reasoning that by then the links have been crawled and whatever the search engine judged worth indexing is indexed. It also says purging keeps the servers stable.

For a solo link builder that may not matter. For an agency it does. A client who asks in month three which links from the January batch made it into Google gets no answer from the tool, because the record is gone. Export each campaign report before the week runs out if you rely on it.

Index coverage is not a one-time event either. Pages and backlinks drop out of Google months after they were indexed, when the host page is pruned, moved or downgraded. A record that ends seven days after the ping cannot catch that.

What the refund policy actually says

The pricing page says that in general Links Indexer does not issue refunds. The full refund policy, last updated September 7, 2026, is stricter in its detail. All purchases of plans, credits and subscriptions are final, except where law requires otherwise. A refund may be considered only if you ask in writing within 15 calendar days of purchase, have opened a support ticket first, have cancelled the subscription, and have not used the service at all: no URLs uploaded, no campaigns started, no credits consumed.

Processing fees are deducted from any refund, refunds are paid in the original currency with exchange-rate losses on you, the same service can be refunded only once, and a chargeback can lead to the account being suspended. Performance is excluded outright: the policy says failure to achieve expected indexing, ranking or traffic is not grounds for a refund.

At $9.99 a month the money at risk is small, so for most buyers this is a footnote. It matters more on the $99.99 annual plan, because one test campaign makes the whole year non-refundable.

How the method works

Its FAQ describes the mechanics in its own words: it uses a wide range of domains for link shortening, hosts those sites on different IPs, and pings through multiple private and public proxies. Drip-feed spreads a campaign over up to 15 days through the API, on the reasoning that sending a large batch at once risks what it calls the Google Sandbox. It also offers a free backlink generator that creates links from public statistics sites.

Google's spam policies list using automated programs or services to create links to your site as an example of link spam. Pinging a URL is not link creation, but shortener redirects pointing at your links and auto-generated statistics-site links are closer to it. Whether that matters depends on where they point: tier-two signals aimed at a backlink on someone else's site carry a different exposure from links aimed at your own pages.

For pages on a site you have verified, none of this is needed. Google offers verified owners XML sitemaps, the Indexing API and Request Indexing in Search Console, and Bing reads IndexNow. Those routes request a crawl without creating anything else on the web.

Where Links Indexer is genuinely the better buy

Price per submission, by a distance. A fully used Standard plan works out under a cent per 1,000 pings, cheaper than any credit-based indexer we have priced, including Sinbyte. If you push hundreds of thousands of tier-two links a month and you only need search engines to be invited to crawl them, nothing else in the category comes close.

Second, it is honest about limits. It says plainly that it cannot guarantee indexing, publishes its quotas, and does not renew your plan without asking. Third, the API is simple: one token, a pipe-separated list of URLs, a campaign name and a drip-feed setting, with a credits endpoint to see what is left today.

And it needs no access to anything. For backlinks on other people's domains that is the only way an indexer can work, because Google ties its official submission routes to verified ownership.

The question that settles the purchase is whose URLs they are. If they are backlinks on other sites, Links Indexer is a cheap first step, best paired with a separate index check. If they are pages on your own site, you already have official routes it cannot use, and you need proof of indexing over months more than you need another ping.

Pages on your own site need official channels and a reason

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. Google documents the Indexing API for pages with JobPosting or BroadcastEvent markup, and we say so on every page that uses it.

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.

That second case is where pinging cannot help at any price. A page marked "Crawled - currently not indexed" has already been read by Google. Another crawl request does not change what Google evaluated. 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 Links Indexer properly

Split your list by owner first. Pages on domains you have verified go in one list, links on other people's sites in another. The two need different tools.

For the backlink list, start on the Free plan, which allows 100 links a day, before buying anything, since one used campaign ends any chance of a refund. Pick links that can index at all: no redirects, no noindex, no robots.txt blocks, no deleted pages. Record which were already indexed before you start, because pages get indexed on their own and no tool should get credit for those.

Export the campaign report within 7 days, before it is purged. Then check the same links in Google yourself at day 7 and day 30. Divide what you would pay by the links still indexed at day 30, and compare that with a vendor that refunds misses, such as Rapid URL Indexer at $0.04 to $0.05 per indexed link.

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, neither pings nor credits will.