Get your backlinks crawled, indexed, and counted
A backlink only passes value once Google has crawled the page it lives on. Plenty go uncrawled for weeks, so the link does nothing. Push your linking URLs through Google's Indexing API and IndexNow in bulk, then verify which ones actually landed.
The problem
You built or bought links: guest posts, directories, profiles, PBN pages, digital-PR placements. Google's crawler reaches high-authority pages constantly but visits low-authority ones rarely, so a brand-new link on an obscure page can sit uncrawled for weeks. Until that page is crawled, the link is invisible to Google and counts for nothing.
How IndexerNow fixes it
- Paste your list of linking URLs, or pull them straight from a sitemap or export.
- We clean and dedupe the list, then push each URL through Google's Indexing API as a crawl request.
- The same list goes to Bing and Yandex via IndexNow, which also feeds ChatGPT Search and Perplexity.
- Bulk-check status afterwards so you can see exactly which linking pages Google crawled and indexed.
- Everything runs on your own Google account, Cloud project, and quota. Never a shared pool.
Before you push
A crawl request only helps if the linking page is actually crawlable. Run a linking URL through the indexability checker first. If it's blocked by robots.txt or carries a noindex, the link will never count no matter how often you submit it. New to the API limits? The quota calculator shows how your volume maps to Google's 200/day.
Frequently asked
Why don't my backlinks get indexed?
Most backlinks sit on low-authority or rarely-crawled pages: forum profiles, comments, new directories, fresh guest posts. Google can take weeks to reach them, and a link on a page Google hasn't crawled passes no signal. Prompting a crawl of the linking URL is what gets the link seen.
Is submitting backlink URLs to the Indexing API allowed?
You're requesting a crawl of public URLs, the same thing a sitemap ping does. IndexerNow runs on your own Google Cloud project and quota, never a shared pool, so you stay inside Google's terms and your own rate limits. Submit pages you have a legitimate reason to want crawled.
How do I know a backlink got indexed?
After pushing the linking URLs, run them through a bulk status check (URL Inspection API). You'll see which linking pages Google has crawled and indexed. That's the moment the link counts.
Google or Bing?
Both. Push the linking URLs through Google's Indexing API and the same list to Bing/Yandex via IndexNow, which also feeds ChatGPT Search and Perplexity. One paste, both engines.