Reference card · Updated Aug 2026

What is drip-feed indexing?

The question link builders ask us most. The one-sentence answer: drip-feed indexing releases your backlink list in small daily batches over 7–30 days, so link discovery follows an organic-looking curve instead of a one-day spike.

A reference page by the SpeedyIndex team. Numbers below come from our aggregated campaign statistics — treat them as starting points, not Google rules.

Context

Why the speed of indexing is a variable at all

Two facts drive the whole method. First: a large share of pages never enters Google's index — in a 2025 SpeedyIndex study of 1,000,000+ URLs, roughly 40% of new pages were still unindexed a month after publication. Second: Google's spam systems classify unnatural link patterns, and a young domain gaining hundreds of indexed referring domains in 48 hours is a pattern, not luck. Devaluation arrives with no notification — your index rate is the only gauge you get.

The core numbers

Suggested daily speed by domain age

Field checklist

Before you submit anything

Do

  • Filter the list first: drop 404/410 pages, noindex-blocked URLs, and links already in the index.
  • Match the schedule to the target domain's age, not the linking domains'.
  • Expect first indexed URLs within 48–72 hours; verify the batch independently around day 14.
  • Log index rate per batch — two campaigns of your own data beats any public benchmark.

Don't

  • Don't blast 300+ links at a domain younger than a year.
  • Don't drip a batch under ~50 links — that spike is invisible anyway.
  • Don't use third-party submission for your own pages before trying sitemap + Search Console (free).
  • Don't expect a schedule to rescue thin linking pages — speed governs pattern risk, not content quality.

Quick answers

Three questions that always follow

Does drip-feed guarantee indexing?

No — nothing does. Google's algorithm makes the admission call. The sane pricing for that reality is pay-per-result: you're charged only for links that actually index, and failed submissions are refunded after the automatic check.

Won't the campaign just take longer?

Yes, by the length of your chosen window. The trade: in aggregated campaign stats, gradual submission on weak domains finishes with a noticeably higher share of indexed links than a day-one push of the same list.

Is "indexing velocity" a confirmed Google signal?

No, and nobody outside Google can prove it is. The narrower, defensible claim: spike-shaped link discovery matches the pattern class Google's spam systems target, and the cost of smoothing the curve is close to zero.

Go deeper

The full guide does the math for you

The complete write-up covers the workflow step by step and includes a free calculator that maps your domain's age to a suggested schedule.

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