TagParrot alternative for auto indexing after Tag Parrot shut down

What Tag Parrot cost, plan by plan

Tag Parrot priced by two numbers locked together, the number of sites and a daily indexing quota shared across them. The cheapest plan cost $11 a month and the top plan $129. Every plan included auto indexing, one-click bulk indexing, live index status checks on up to 2,000 pages a day and sitemap sync every 24 hours.

You will find other figures quoted for Tag Parrot elsewhere. One competitor's comparison page lists it at about $20 a month for basic and $50 for pro. The archived pricing page does not support that. The table below is copied from the version captured by the Internet Archive in April 2024, the last one before the plans disappeared.

The useful thing the table tells a former customer is the size of the budget they already approved. If you paid $29 for ten sites and 400 pages a day, that is the frame to compare replacements in, not the cheapest headline price you can find.

Read from the Internet Archive copy of tagparrot.com/pricing captured on 19 April 2024. The service is closed, so none of these plans can be bought. Prices in USD.

The replacements on sale today, side by side

Three products are the realistic landing spots for a former Tag Parrot customer, because all three work the same way: you connect Search Console for sites you own and the tool submits for you. Link indexers that push backlinks on other people's domains are a different job and are not listed here.

IndexGuru is the closest match in shape. It sells a free tier and four paid tiers from $9 to $149 a month, covering 3, 10, 20 and 100 domains, and every paid tier states the same limit of 200 pages per site per day. It submits to Google and, through IndexNow, to Bing, Yandex, Seznam.cz, Naver and Yep.

IndexMachine is the cheapest. It sells lifetime plans at $12.50 for one domain, $50 for five and $84.50 for ten with its BETA50 code, against list prices of $25, $100 and $169, plus a $9.50 monthly or $95 yearly subscription for unlimited sites. Every plan states up to 20 URLs a day for Google and 200 a day for other search engines.

Indexing is priced higher and built around a different question. It submits through Google, Bing IndexNow and your sitemap, monitors coverage on both engines, and returns a plain-English reason for every page that stays out, so you can tell a discovery problem from a page problem before you spend another request on it.

IndexGuru read from indexguru.com/pricing and IndexMachine from indexmachine.co/pricing on 23 October 2026. Prices in USD. Vendor pricing moves, so re-check before you buy.

Why the same price ladder keeps coming back

Put Tag Parrot's old pricing next to IndexGuru's current pricing and the two ladders nearly overlap. Tag Parrot sold 3 sites for $11, 10 for $29 and 20 for $59. IndexGuru sells 3 domains for $9, 10 for $29 and 20 for $59. Two of the price points match to the dollar and three of the domain counts match exactly.

That is less surprising than it looks, and it says nothing bad about either company. Both were dividing the same metered resource. Google documents a default of 200 publish requests per day per project on the Indexing API, and 380 requests per minute across all its endpoints. A tool built on that API ends up pricing around 200 a day whether it means to or not.

The lesson for a buyer is that daily throughput in this category is close to a commodity, set by Google rather than by the vendor. IndexMachine publishes 20 a day for Google, IndexGuru 200 per site, Tag Parrot 200 to 1,000 across all sites. None of them can sell you speed Google does not already meter, so shopping on that number alone is how people end up paying for requests that change nothing.

Does auto indexing still work in 2026

Yes, for pages on sites you own, with one honest caveat about which channel does the work. Google rewrote its Indexing API quota page on 16 October 2026. The new page still sets the default at 200 publish requests per day, but it no longer links to the form for requesting more quota, and Google's changelog calls that form outdated. The documented scope of the API has not changed: JobPosting pages and BroadcastEvent livestreams.

The other Google interface people mention is the Search Console API, and it is worth knowing exactly what it contains. Its reference lists four resources: Search Analytics, Sitemaps, Sites and URL Inspection. URL Inspection reads a page's index status. Sitemaps submits a sitemap. None of the methods requests indexing for an individual URL, which is why the Request Indexing button has no API equivalent.

That gives you a simple question to put to any replacement before you pay: which Google endpoint sends my URLs? IndexMachine says it uses the official Search Console and Bing APIs and asks for read-only access to Search Console. We could not match that to a URL submission method in Google's published reference, so ask the vendor directly. A clear answer is a good sign.

Indexing does not rest on one channel. It submits through the Google Indexing API, through IndexNow for Bing and the other participating engines, and through clean XML sitemaps, and it monitors coverage on Google and Bing separately. If Google narrows the Indexing API further, sitemaps, IndexNow and the diagnosis keep working, so you lose some speed rather than the whole product.

Where IndexGuru or IndexMachine is the better buy

If you ran Tag Parrot across ten or twenty small sites that each publish a few pages a week, IndexGuru at $29 or $59 a month is a closer and cheaper fit than we are. Our Starter and Growth plans cover one site each, and multi-site management starts on Agency at $119 a month billed yearly. Paying that for a stable of small blogs is the wrong purchase.

If you have one or two sites and mainly want something running in the background for a one-time payment, IndexMachine's $12.50 lifetime plan costs less than a single month of most subscriptions, including ours. At 20 Google URLs a day it suits a site that publishes steadily rather than one that launches thousands of pages at once.

Where we are the better buy is a narrower case, and it is common. If a large share of your missing pages has already been crawled, sitting at "Crawled - currently not indexed", resubmitting them does nothing, because Google has already read the page and declined it. A submitter will keep spending its daily quota on those URLs and report activity. Indexing tells you which pages are in that state and why, so the fix goes into the page instead of into another request.

Moving your sites off Tag Parrot in an afternoon

Start with access, because a closed vendor should not keep it. Open each Search Console property, go to Settings, then Users and permissions, and remove any account you added for Tag Parrot. Do the same for any Google Cloud service account you created for it. This takes a few minutes and closes a door nobody is watching any more.

Next, check what actually happened while nothing was submitting. Pull the full URL list from your sitemaps and measure how many pages are indexed today. Many sites find that most of their backlog went in on its own through normal crawling, which shrinks the problem to a specific list.

Then split that list in two. Pages Google has never crawled have a discovery problem, and submission plus internal links is the right treatment. Pages Google crawled and declined have a page problem, such as thin content, a duplicate canonical or a soft 404, and no tool fixes those by asking again.

Finally, pick the tool that matches the bigger bucket. A discovery-heavy list across many small sites points to a multi-site submitter. A list dominated by crawled and declined pages points to diagnosis. You can see which bucket your own site falls into with the live demo before you choose a plan.