[STUDY] Using indexing services on orphaned pages

This is interesting. I'd love to see the results to identify potential prospects to index backlinks.

Steptoe said:

Ok, 24+ hours have passed so lets see how we've done. For checking index status of each url I'll be using the following Google search operators - site: and cache:

Set 1 - speed links
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

Set 2 - the best indexer
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

Set 3 - Twitter
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

Set 4 - GSA indexer
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

Set 5 - Control
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

So yeah, pretty much what I was expecting, nothing indexed yet. Next check will be in another 24 hrs.

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Having pages indexed within 24 hours seems like a distant dream these days. Nice case study though.

Interesting, following. It might take few more days for updates

I went to watch this interesting test.

48+ hours after submission to indexers and we have the following results:

Set 1 - speed links
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

Set 2 - the best indexer
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

Set 3 - Twitter
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

Set 4 - GSA indexer
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

Set 5 - Control
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

Next update will be in a week. Let's hope at least one url gets indexed or this is going to end up being a really tedious study!

did you set any drip feed value?

Following

iceapple said:

did you set any drip feed value?

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No, just asap

Ok so 7 days has passed since I sent my links off to the submission services or manually tweeted them. Any effect yet?

Set 1 - speed links
#1 - site: yes, cache: yes
#2 - site: yes, cache: yes
#3 - site: yes, cache: yes
#4 - site: yes, cache: yes
#5 - site: yes, cache: yes

Set 2 - the best indexer
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

Set 3 - Twitter
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

Set 4 - GSA indexer
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

Set 5 - Control
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

So, the entire speedlinks set is both indexed and cached - hooray! Nothing from any of the others.

I was wondering what speedlinks method of indexing was so I put the indexed urls into ahrefs to check for any backlinks, and got a couple of results. It looks like speed links puts your urls on pages of random sites that they probably own, with anchor text consisting of random numbers. I got a couple of the sites they are using so far, no real footprints that I can see.

I'll update again in a week, not sure I have high expectations though.

I too am following facing lot of indexing issues

so, speedlinks will see an influx of new customers soon

tazarbm said:

so, speedlinks will see an influx of new customers soon

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I dunno, the posts I read here are usually from people who want an indexer that works in 1-12 hours, not a week

Do you recommend using speedlinks directly for your main site/main articles, given that they seem to create backlinks for indexing with random anchors?

I've never used an indexing service directly to any of my main/money sites, so can't recommend it. I think I would rather work on internal link optimisation and general link building, and save the indexers for links I've built.

Steptoe said:

I dunno, the posts I read here are usually from people who want an indexer that works in 1-12 hours, not a week

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indeed... (I'm fine with it, though, so I might give SL another try)

I think you are getting better results than me with speed links. Only one out of the last 200-300 i submitted in speed links is indexed and the one that did was a reddit link.

anyone else have anything with speed links either way? maybe it's just me but the past couple of months or so nothing is indexing and these are good quality too.

We're at the two week mark now. Results as follows:

Set 1 - speed links
#1 - site: yes, cache: yes
#2 - site: no, cache: yes
#3 - site: yes, cache: yes
#4 - site: yes, cache: yes
#5 - site: yes, cache: yes

Set 2 - the best indexer
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

Set 3 - Twitter
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

Set 4 - GSA indexer
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

Set 5 - Control
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

So, still only speed-links with any results, and #2 has disappeared from the index but is still available via cache:
I doubt anyone is going to want to pay for an indexing service that takes more than 2 weeks to index a link so I think it might be best to leave the study here.
I have however found many indexing services I'd never heard of since starting this study, so may well set up another test in the future.

Steptoe said:

We're at the two week mark now. Results as follows:

Set 1 - speed links
#1 - site: yes, cache: yes
#2 - site: no, cache: yes
#3 - site: yes, cache: yes
#4 - site: yes, cache: yes
#5 - site: yes, cache: yes

Set 2 - the best indexer
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

Set 3 - Twitter
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

Set 4 - GSA indexer
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

Set 5 - Control
#1 - site: no, cache: no
#2 - site: no, cache: no
#3 - site: no, cache: no
#4 - site: no, cache: no
#5 - site: no, cache: no

So, still only speed-links with any results, and #2 has disappeared from the index but is still available via cache:
I doubt anyone is going to want to pay for an indexing service that takes more than 2 weeks to index a link so I think it might be best to leave the study here.
I have however found many indexing services I'd never heard of since starting this study, so may well set up another test in the future.

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Thank you for the case study.
You just confirmed what I was sure of... Twitter doesn't help indexing.

I'm really curious about the results of the test.

Planning on trying any other social signals beyond twitter to see how they do?