Linkdexing vs Rapid URL Indexer Cost Compared

Linkdexing and Rapid URL Indexer both start at $0.05 a credit, and the difference is what happens to a link that does not index. Rapid URL Indexer returns the credit after 14 days in its Standard Mode. Linkdexing keeps it: its refund policy says one credit is one submission, indexed or not. So Rapid URL Indexer is cheaper per indexed link at every indexing rate below 100 percent, and faster, with most successful links indexed within 6 to 24 hours against about two weeks for Linkdexing's manual process. Linkdexing is the cheaper test, at $10 against $25, and the one to look at for re-indexing links that dropped out.

Both vendors were read directly this month: linkdexing.com, including its terms and refund policy, and rapidurlindexer.com, including its pricing page and FAQ. Rapid URL Indexer publishes its own page on Linkdexing, which is worth reading but is a rival's view. We sell neither; we build a tool for pages on sites you own.

Linkdexing vs Rapid URL Indexer at a glance

What does 1,000 indexed backlinks cost on each?

On Linkdexing, divide five cents by your indexing rate. On Rapid URL Indexer, the price per indexed link is simply the credit price, because the misses come back. That makes the comparison easy to run for any rate you believe.

Take a month where you send 1,000 backlinks and 60 percent index. On Linkdexing you pay $50 for 1,000 submissions and end up with 600 indexed links, which is about $83 per 1,000 indexed. On Rapid URL Indexer you would buy the $68 pack of 1,500 credits, 600 credits are consumed, and the other 400 return to your balance. The 600 indexed links cost about $27, or $45 per 1,000, and the leftover credits carry into next month because they never expire.

Push the rate up to Linkdexing's claimed 90 percent and its cost falls to about $56 per 1,000 indexed. It still does not reach $45, and against Rapid URL Indexer's $0.04 tier it cannot win at any rate, because it would need more than every link to index. Drop the rate to 35 percent on a batch of at least 20 links and Linkdexing's terms give you a free re-run, which is a useful floor, but the first pass has still cost about $143 per 1,000 indexed.

One Rapid URL Indexer option changes that math. Apex Mode, its fast lane, charges 3 credits per URL and returns only 1 credit if the URL stays unindexed after 14 days. A priority link that misses in Apex Mode costs 2 credits, or 8 to 10 cents, more than Linkdexing charges for the same miss. Its extra Bing credits are also non-refundable. Use Apex for the handful of links where hours matter, not for the whole batch.

We keep a wider table of every refund-model and throughput-model vendor in our write-up on backlink indexer cost per 1,000 links, if you are pricing more than these two.

Does manual link indexing work better than automated?

Neither vendor publishes a method you could check, so the honest answer is that the published rates are too close to settle it. Linkdexing says up to 90 percent and adds that this is not guaranteed. Rapid URL Indexer says 91 percent on average. Neither homepage shows the test batches behind its number, the way One Hour Indexing publishes its own results batch by batch.

What manual work reliably changes is time, not rate. A queue worked by four people takes about two weeks to reach its best result. That is fine for a set of guest posts that will sit there for years. It is a real cost for anything tied to a launch, a press cycle or a client report due on Friday.

Be wary of one line on Linkdexing's homepage, which says it will force Google to crawl your links. No service can force Google to crawl or keep a URL. Google decides what to index after it fetches a page, which is why its own FAQ, more carefully, promises no rate at all. The same homepage says cheaper indexers have credits that expire monthly and index under 10 percent of links; Rapid URL Indexer's credits never expire and it publishes a far higher rate, so read that as a claim about a category, not about this rival.

Workflow through a manual queue or an API

This is the difference agencies feel first. Rapid URL Indexer connects through a REST API, a WordPress plugin and Zapier, so new posts or a client's placement sheet can flow in without anyone pasting URLs. Links come from a steady pipeline for most agencies, often guest posts won through cold email software that researches every prospect, and an indexer that plugs into that pipeline saves a weekly chore.

Linkdexing describes no integrations. You paste links into its dashboard and the team works them. Once submitted, links cannot be pulled back, so a pasted list with a redirect, a noindexed page or a stray blank line stays in the queue and on the bill. Clean the list before it goes in.

Which should you buy?

Buy Rapid URL Indexer if you index backlinks every month, report to clients, or care how quickly links land. The credit return makes it cheaper per indexed link at every realistic rate, the day-4 and day-14 reports give you something to show, and the API means nobody pastes URLs by hand.

Buy Linkdexing if you want the cheapest possible first test, at $10 for 200 links, or you have a set of older links that dropped out of Google and want a service that names re-indexing as a job. Send campaigns of at least 20 links so the free re-run applies, and measure your own indexed rate before buying more.

Whichever you pick, test before you commit. Record which links were already indexed, send the same kind of links to both in the same week, recheck on day 7 and day 14, and divide what you spent by what newly indexed. Our full Linkdexing alternative comparison runs that arithmetic at four indexing rates, and the Rapid URL Indexer alternative page covers where that vendor falls short. IndexBolt bills the same way Linkdexing does, per request and indexed or not, and our IndexBolt alternative page prices that out.

When neither one is the right purchase

Both products exist for links on domains you do not control. If the pages that will not index are on your own site, a backlink indexer is the wrong tool at any price. Google tied official submission to verified ownership, and for a property you have verified, the Google Indexing API, Bing IndexNow and XML sitemaps are the routes that exist.

That is what Indexing does. It connects to your Search Console property, submits new and changed pages through those official channels, and runs a bulk index check across Google and Bing. When a page stays out, it tells you whether Google never crawled it or crawled it and declined, because resubmitting a page Google already read and rejected costs money and changes nothing. Plans start at $29 a month, billed annually.