Drip-Feed Indexing Setup: The 10-Minute Version
Almost every new client asks the same thing: what is drip-feed indexing, and why use it for backlinks? Here's the whole answer in ten minutes — setup, numbers, honest limits.
- Drip-feed = your link list is submitted in small daily batches over 7–30 days, not all at once.
- Why: a day-one spike of indexed links on a young domain looks manufactured; gradual discovery looks organic — and bulk crawling wastes the crawl budget Google allocates by site health and popularity (their words, in the official crawl budget doc).
- Scale of the problem: our 2025 study of 1M+ URLs found ~40% of new pages still unindexed after a month.
- Export your backlink list to a plain text file, one URL per line. Deduplicate.
- Cut dead weight before spending anything: 404/410 pages, noindex-blocked URLs, links already in the index. Pro tip: this alone typically trims 10–20% of a purchased list.
- Check the target site's age — it sets your speed. Our working caps (campaign experience, not Google rules): 5–10 links/day under 6 months, 20–50/day at 1–3 years, up to ~200/day past 5 years.
- Create a task → toggle Drip Feed → set the number of days. API users: pass
drip_dayson task creation. - Expect first indexed URLs in 48–72 hours. Nothing by hour 96? The problem is the linking pages, not the schedule.
- Day 7: read the report — indexed, unindexed, and error classes. Tokens for non-indexed links refund automatically (Pay-per-Result).
- Two weeks in, verify the list independently with the bulk index checker. Pro tip: log index rate per batch and per domain age — two campaigns of your own data beats anyone's benchmark.
Blast vs drip: which one fits your situation
Four common situations, same two options each — one-day blast or drip schedule.
Domain under 1 year, 300+ links
Blast: high pattern risk — this is the exact spike profile spam systems watch for.
Drip: recommended — spread the list over 14–30 days.
Aged authority domain
Blast: fine — established sites absorb volume without a visible anomaly.
Drip: unnecessary — you'd just be waiting longer for the same result.
Batch under 50 links
Blast: fine — a spike that small reads as noise.
Drip: overkill.
Pages on your own site
Blast: skip both — submit through Search Console and your sitemap first, it's free.
Drip: same answer.
Short version: the schedule matters when the domain is weak and the list is big. Strong domain or tiny batch — don't overthink it.
Does drip-feed guarantee indexing? No. Nothing does — Google makes the admission call. Pay-per-Result exists for exactly that reason: you pay per indexed link only.
Will the campaign take longer? Yes, by design — the window is your chosen day count. In our aggregated stats the final indexed share on weak domains ends higher than with blasts, which is the trade.
Can I drip Tier-2 links? Yes, and you should — they sit on the weakest domains in your stack.
Where do I start? Full guide plus a free calculator that maps domain age to a suggested schedule: https://en.speedyindex.com/drip-feed-indexing/
SpeedyIndex is a link indexing service for Google and Yandex with a Pay-per-Result model — tokens are charged only for links that actually enter the index. New accounts start with 200 free tokens.
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