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What the SpeedyIndex day-7 Google report refunds when a guest-post URL is still not indexed

The day-7 Google report refunds 100 tokens when a submitted guest-post URL is still not indexed and the URL was eligible for a crawl: reachable, not blocked, not noindex. It does not refund a 404, a 403, a robots block, a noindex, or a redirect loop. Pay-per-Result bills the index row. Inaccessible rows sit outside that bargain. An independent checker can disagree with the report for a day; the refund clock is the report, not a site: screenshot.

The job titled what the SpeedyIndex day-7 Google report refunds when a guest-post URL is still not indexed is a billing rule, not a quality score. Google rechecks on day 7. Yandex rechecks on day 15. On drip-feed, that seven-day window starts after the last daily batch, not after you clicked Create. If you promised the client “refunds next Monday” on a 14-day drip, you clocked the wrong start.

Google’s recrawl help is owner-side: URL Inspection and sitemaps on properties you manage. You cannot request indexing in Search Console on a publisher you do not verify. SpeedyIndex does not need GSC verification. It still cannot store a URL Google refuses, and it will not pretend a dead page was a miss.

Read the report columns before you file a ticket. Indexed: 100 tokens billed. Not indexed and eligible: 100 tokens back. Not indexed because the live URL was inaccessible: no refund. Then re-check a sample with a public Google checker so the sheet and the report share a date.

From “everything refunds” to a crawled-miss rule

Myth. If Google still does not list the guest post on day 7, SpeedyIndex always returns the tokens. Sister myth: the report is the same object as a live SERP paste, so a blank site: on day 6 already proves a refund.

Reframing. Refunds attach to eligible URLs that were processed and remain unindexed at recheck. Eligibility fails when the document cannot be stored: 404, 410, 451, 403, robots, noindex, redirect loop. Those are publisher tickets. Google’s page on how to ask Google to recrawl states that requesting a crawl does not guarantee inclusion, instantly or at all, and that you cannot request indexing for URLs you do not manage. The day-7 report is SpeedyIndex’s Pay-per-Result audit of that same split: process ran, storage still belongs to Google.

Proof. Product facts are stable: 100 tokens per indexed URL; Google recheck day 7; Yandex day 15; automatic token return on unindexed eligible URLs; Standard versus drip-feed; optional precheck drops 404/410/451, robots/noindex, and already-indexed rows so they never consume the refund conversation. Drip-feed is Google only. Bing is checker-only. No GSC verification. Crawler presents as Googlebot Smartphone.

Setup. Export the guest-post hrefs. Fetch a sample. Run a Google index check. Submit only 200-class indexable misses. If the list is large, use drip-feed and write last-batch plus 7 on the calendar. On day 7 after that window, open the Google report and a checker sample in the same sitting. Do not mix Yandex’s day-15 clock into a Google refund argument.

What a misunderstood refund costs a link-building week

A guest post is a line item. Mark it “SpeedyIndex failed” after a 404 and you spend the week arguing with a vendor instead of the publisher. The tokens will not come back. The placement is still dead.

Mark it “we are owed refunds” on day 7 of a 14-day drip and you are early. Batches are still leaving. The consolidated Google audit has not started. The client hears a broken product. The product is a calendar.

Mark it “refunded, so the URL is junk” when the report returned tokens on a clean 200 and you skip the quality ticket. Google crawled and declined. Recrawling the same thin guest template will refund again. That loop is not a billing bug.

"We refund unindexed Google URLs on day 7 when the URL was eligible for a crawl. We do not refund 404, 403, robots, noindex, or a redirect loop. On drip-feed the seven-day window follows the last batch. An independent checker is a second dated row, not a second invoice. We do not sell 100 percent inclusion."

— the SpeedyIndex team

Checking is not submitting. Submitting a blocked URL is how refunds become a fight. Precheck exists to keep that fight off the report.

Workflow: prove what day 7 will and will not return

Nine steps. Each one leaves a loggable artifact. Run them before you dispute a line.

  1. Freeze the href the report will name. Action: lock scheme, host, path, trailing slash. Tool: the placements sheet. Setting: the sold URL, not a shortlink. Observable: one string that matches the task. When: before create and again on day 7. Success: report URL equals sheet URL. Failure: you refund-hunted a UTM twin the task never saw.

  2. Dump hops on the live URL. Action: request headers with redirect following. Tool: curl -I -L. Setting: capture status, location, x-robots-tag. Observable: 200 versus 404/403/loop. When: before submit, and again if day 7 shows no refund. Success: single 200, no noindex header. Failure: inaccessible — do not expect tokens back. Write the publisher.

  3. Read robots and HTML directives. Action: GET robots.txt and the 200 body. Tool: curl or view-source. Setting: Googlebot group; meta robots; rel=canonical. Observable: allow plus indexable, self-canonical or an honest other-canonical. When: on every 200. Success: Google may store this URL. Failure: Disallow, noindex, or a canonical to a tag archive — that row is not a refund candidate if it was blocked at crawl time.

  4. Record Google membership before the task. Action: bulk or one-URL check. Tool: a Google index checker that does not need Search Console. Setting: exact URL, Google engine, timestamp. Observable: indexed / not indexed. When: before submit. Success: already-indexed rows leave the queue so day 7 does not bill a recrawl you did not want. Failure: you submit stored URLs and then call the bill a surprise.

  5. Choose Standard or drip-feed, then write the refund clock. Action: one Google Pay-per-Result task. Tool: dashboard, or drip-feed indexing with drip_feed and drip_feed_days (2–30, URL count ≥ days). Setting: Google engine; Googlebot Smartphone; optional precheck on. Observable: task_id plus last-batch date if drip is on. When: after the hop log. Success: Standard → day 7 from process; drip → last batch plus 7. Failure: you put “refund Monday” on a 14-day drip created this Monday.

  6. Turn on optional precheck. Action: drop 404/410/451, robots/noindex, already indexed. Tool: SpeedyIndex precheck. Setting: all filters on. Observable: a shorter list. When: at create. Success: inaccessible rows never reach the refund table. Failure: you skip precheck, then paste a 404 into a refund ticket.

  7. Open the day-7 Google report on the real date. Action: wait until the window closes. Tool: the task report. Setting: 100 tokens per indexed URL; auto-return on eligible misses. Observable: billed / refunded / excluded. When: day 7 after Standard process, or last drip batch plus 7. Success: you can explain each column in one sentence. Failure: you read the report on day 8 of a 14-day drip and call it empty.

  8. Re-check a sample independently. Action: paste 20 leftover URLs. Tool: the same Google checker as step 4. Setting: exact hrefs, new timestamp. Observable: yes/no versus the report. When: the same day you screenshot the report. Success: agreement, or a documented lag you will retest. Failure: you treat a personalised SERP as the invoice.

  9. Split leftovers into publisher tickets versus quality tickets. Action: for each miss, re-run curl. Tool: hop log plus report reason. Setting: inaccessible versus crawled-not-stored. Observable: two buckets. When: after refunds post. Success: 404s go to the publisher; clean 200 misses go to content, canonical, or duplicate work. Failure: you resubmit the 404 and expect a second refund.

Report refund versus checker miss versus Search Console recrawl

URL Inspection, a public checker, a Pay-per-Result report, and a publisher email all answer a slice of “why is this guest post still out?” They do not answer the same slice. Score each method with the same four criteria, in this order: best for / speed / risk / skip when.

  • SpeedyIndex day-7 Google report. Best for token truth on URLs you submitted. Speed: one window, day 7 after the relevant batch. Risk: you clock drip from Create and misread an empty table. Skip when the URL never entered a Google task.

  • Independent Google index checker. Best for a dated yes/no without GSC, including third-party guest posts. Speed: minutes. Risk: “not indexed” is true and still not a refund if the live URL is 404. Skip as a substitute invoice.

  • Search Console URL Inspection. Best on properties you verify. Speed: one URL, quota limited. Risk: you cannot inspect a publisher you do not own; requesting a crawl still does not force inclusion. Skip on guest-post sheets.

  • Live curl hop log. Best for killing refund arguments on dead pages. Speed: two minutes. Risk: a 200 still needs an index check. Skip when you already know the URL 404s.

  • Yandex day-15 report. Best for a Yandex task. Speed: longer clock. Risk: mixing day 15 into a Google refund. Skip inside this Google-only procedure.

  • Bing checker row. Best for a second engine column. Speed: minutes. Risk: Bing yes is not Google yes, and there is no Bing indexer to refund. Skip when the dispute is Google tokens.

Takeaway: the report refunds eligible Google misses. The checker dates the SERP. Curl decides whether the miss was ever a crawl. None of them override Google’s storage decision.

When the report, the checker, and the live URL disagree

Report: not indexed, tokens refunded, curl is 200 indexable. Eligible miss. Google declined storage. Do not treat the refund as proof the placement is a 404. Open a quality or duplicate ticket.

Report: not indexed, no refund, curl is 404/403/loop. Expected. Inaccessible URLs are outside Pay-per-Result refunds. Write the publisher.

Report: indexed, 100 tokens billed, your site: is blank. site: is not an inventory. Trust Inspection if you own the host, or re-run the checker logged out. Do not file a refund on an operator miss.

Checker says indexed, report says not, same day. Log both timestamps. Recheck the next day. Do not invent a third status.

You are on day 7 from Create, drip still running. The consolidated audit has not started. Wait for last batch plus 7.

Precheck dropped the URL, you still expected a refund line. Dropped rows never entered the Google queue. There is nothing to refund.

Redirect loop queued anyway. Pull it. A loop is inaccessible. Do not wait for day 7.

Yandex miss on day 7. Wrong clock. Yandex rechecks on day 15.

Bing still empty. There was no Bing submit. Checking Bing is not a SpeedyIndex Bing index job.

Already-indexed URL billed. If it was indexed at recheck, Pay-per-Result bills 100 tokens. Filter those rows before create.

Field notes from refund weeks that mixed clocks and corpses

Illustrative scenario — not a real customer. An agency submitted 200 guest posts, skipped precheck, and opened 40 refund tickets on day 7. Thirty were 404. Those tokens stayed spent. Ten were live 200s and refunded. The SOP change was curl plus precheck, not a louder ticket.

Illustrative scenario — not a real customer. A freelancer ran a 14-day drip of 800 URLs and asked finance for refunds on calendar day 7. Batches were still leaving. Finance saw a “broken” vendor. The honest window was last batch plus seven.

Illustrative scenario — not a real customer. A team used a blank site: query as proof of a miss while the Google report showed indexed. They demanded a refund on a billed row. The independent checker agreed with the report. The operator query was the error.

Illustrative model based on typical conditions for a guest-post refund desk

Illustrative model (not a production invoice, not a real customer):

Submitted guest-post URL
    |
    +--> live fetch
    |         --> 404 / 403 / robots / noindex / loop
    |         --> NOT a refund (publisher ticket)
    |
    +--> 200, indexable, processed
              --> Google recheck on day 7
              --> (drip: day 7 after last batch)
              --> indexed: 100 tokens billed
              --> not indexed: 100 tokens refunded
              --> independent checker = dated SERP row

Assume 100 submitted guest posts after precheck. On the real day-7 date, 60 indexed (billed), 25 eligible misses (refunded), 15 later died into 404 (no refund if inaccessible at process). Re-check 15 refunded URLs with the public checker. This is a workflow model, not a measured client result.

Questions teams ask when day 7 still shows not indexed

Q: Does the day-7 Google report refund every URL that is still not indexed?

A: No. It refunds eligible misses. 404, 403, robots, noindex, and redirect loops sit outside automatic refunds.

Q: When does day 7 start on drip-feed?

A: After the last daily batch, then seven days. Not from task create.

Q: Is the independent checker the same as the refund?

A: No. The checker is a dated retrieval test. The report is the Pay-per-Result audit. Use both. Bill from the report.

Q: Will Search Console Request indexing force a SpeedyIndex refund?

A: No. You cannot request indexing on a host you do not manage, and a recrawl request still does not guarantee inclusion.

Q: What if the URL is indexed in Bing but not Google on day 7?

A: Different indexes. Google tokens follow the Google report. There is no Bing indexer to refund.

Q: Do Yandex tokens return on day 7 too?

A: No. Yandex rechecks on day 15.

Q: Should I resubmit a refunded 200 that Google still refuses?

A: Only after you change fetchability or the document. Recrawling the same shell often refunds again.

Q: Do I need Search Console to read the day-7 report?

A: No. SpeedyIndex does not require GSC verification. The crawler identifies as Googlebot Smartphone.

Q: How many tokens is one indexed URL?

A: 100 tokens billed when indexed at recheck. Trial allotment is 200 tokens on new accounts.

Q: Does optional precheck change refunds?

A: Precheck drops 404/410/451, robots/noindex, and already-indexed URLs before they become report fights. Inaccessible rows that still sneak in remain non-refundable.

Forecast for guest-post refunds and Google recrawl

Guest-post desks will keep treating “not indexed” as one status. Google will keep splitting crawl from storage. Vendors that bill on submit will hide the split. Pay-per-Result makes the split visible on day 7, and drip-feed makes the clock honest only if you start it after the last batch.

Ten-minute action: pick five guest-post URLs from last week’s Google task. Run curl -I -L. Open the day-7 report on the real date. Note billed, refunded, or excluded. Re-check the same five in the public Google checker. If a 404 has no refund, write the publisher. If a 200 refunded, stop calling it a vendor outage.

The previous note in this series covers the step before this one: How to set a 14-day SpeedyIndex drip-feed for 800 guest-post URLs in one Google task. Read that first if you landed here on a related long tail.

About SpeedyIndex

SpeedyIndex sells crawl requests on a Pay-per-Result basis. One indexed URL costs 100 tokens.

A Google URL is rechecked on day 7. A Yandex URL is rechecked on day 15. If the URL is not indexed at recheck, tokens return automatically unless the URL was inaccessible.

Campaign types are Standard and Drip-Feed. Drip-Feed is Pay-per-Result Google only. Optional precheck can drop 404, 410, and 451 responses, robots or noindex blocks, and URLs already indexed. API flags are drip_feed and drip_feed_days (2–30). URL count must be at least the day count.

The crawler identifies as Googlebot Smartphone. Search Console verification is not required. Third-party URLs are allowed. Bing is available as a checker only. There is no Bing indexer.

New accounts receive 200 trial tokens. Indexing is the search engine’s decision. A paid request is a crawl attempt, not a ranking promise and not an inclusion guarantee.