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- Aug 17, 2010
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Hi guys,
In my previous thread from a few years ago I found out that a lot of indexing services basically aren't even attracting google-bot to the submitted pages. This is a huge problem since if google-bot doesn't visit your submitted urls it CAN'T, WON'T AND WILL NEVER BE INDEXED.
There are a lot of contributing factors to whether or not a page gets indexed but the very minimum an indexing service should do in my honest opinion is to attract search engine spiders.
I decided to test out the following services :
How the test was conducted :
I registered a fresh domain for each indexing service, generated some random gibberish on them and hosted them on my own nginx server (where I have access to the spider/traffic logs). Then I basically just monitored for google-bot.
Each domain was on a seperate cloudflare account/nameserver.
Indexing tests are completely pointless if not done on orphaned domains and or pages. The majority of indexing tests are done with stuff like GSA comments making the tests so unreliable I don't even know where to begin
The following services didn't attract any spiders :
These services DID attract spiders
The following services are on my eternal shitlist since they have failed to bring me 1 spider in the past 3 years. I didn't even retest them this time.
Q: So what does it mean if an indexing service is not attracting spiders?
A : Their method is (temporarily) broken or they are just selling thin air, knowing that 99% of people have no way of actually seeing if google-bot is arriving. 99% of people are also trying to index publicly crawlable urls like comments, forum profiles. A lot of these types of links will eventually index by themselves since the pages they are on are probably being bombarded by a nonstop barrage of google-bot because of various types of linkspam.
Q: What does it look like in your stats when google-bot visits a page?
Q: What indexing service should I use
A : Whichever brings spiders and is cheapest
In my previous thread from a few years ago I found out that a lot of indexing services basically aren't even attracting google-bot to the submitted pages. This is a huge problem since if google-bot doesn't visit your submitted urls it CAN'T, WON'T AND WILL NEVER BE INDEXED.
There are a lot of contributing factors to whether or not a page gets indexed but the very minimum an indexing service should do in my honest opinion is to attract search engine spiders.
I decided to test out the following services :
| gindex.me |
| omegaindexer.com |
| speed-links.net |
| https://app.linkdexing.com/login |
| elitelinkindexer.com |
| https://thebestindexer.com/ |
How the test was conducted :
I registered a fresh domain for each indexing service, generated some random gibberish on them and hosted them on my own nginx server (where I have access to the spider/traffic logs). Then I basically just monitored for google-bot.
Each domain was on a seperate cloudflare account/nameserver.
Indexing tests are completely pointless if not done on orphaned domains and or pages. The majority of indexing tests are done with stuff like GSA comments making the tests so unreliable I don't even know where to begin
The following services didn't attract any spiders :
| gindex.me | submitted @ 16:32 16 march |
| omegaindexer.com | submitted @ 16:32 16 march |
These services DID attract spiders
| service | date submitted | first google-bot arrival |
| speed-links.net | submitted @ 16:33 16 march | 3-18 21:28 |
| elitelinkindexer.com | submitted @ 16:38 16 march | 3-18 23:26 |
| https://thebestindexer.com/ | submitted @ 16:40 16 march | 3-17 13:26:17 |
| https://app.linkdexing.com/login | submitted @ 11:42 17 march | 3-20 18:21:19 |
The following services are on my eternal shitlist since they have failed to bring me 1 spider in the past 3 years. I didn't even retest them this time.
Q: So what does it mean if an indexing service is not attracting spiders?
A : Their method is (temporarily) broken or they are just selling thin air, knowing that 99% of people have no way of actually seeing if google-bot is arriving. 99% of people are also trying to index publicly crawlable urls like comments, forum profiles. A lot of these types of links will eventually index by themselves since the pages they are on are probably being bombarded by a nonstop barrage of google-bot because of various types of linkspam.
Q: What does it look like in your stats when google-bot visits a page?
Q: What indexing service should I use
A : Whichever brings spiders and is cheapest
