Which SpeedyIndex optional precheck filters remove 404 noindex and already-indexed URLs before drip-feed

Optional precheck is a gate in front of a Google Pay-per-Result task. It drops HTTP 404, 410, and 451, robots.txt / noindex blocks, media files, and URLs already in Google. Those rows never enter drip-feed indexing. Indexing tokens reserved for them return. You still may pay a small checker fee if you enable the “already indexed” half. A 404 that skips precheck and goes into the drip may not refund on day 7, because Google could not have stored a missing page.

The question which SpeedyIndex optional precheck filters remove 404 noindex and already-indexed URLs before drip-feed has a concrete list. It is not “AI quality scoring.” Google’s HTTP status documentation is the rule sheet for 404/410 versus 200. Pair a sample through an independent 404 check if you do not trust the sheet.

Precheck is off by default. Turning it on is a setting, not a hidden always-on mercy. Drip-feed then paces whatever survived. Checking is not submitting. A paid request is a crawl attempt, not an inclusion guarantee.

Search Console cannot request indexing on a publisher you do not verify. That is why the task exists. Precheck does not replace hop logs on a bought comment dump. It is the last filter before the calendar.

From “we’ll refund anyway” to filters that refuse the queue

Myth. Day-7 refund makes precheck optional in the sense of useless. Inverse myth: precheck indexes the URL. Sister myth: a 404 in the drip is “Google’s problem” and tokens come back.

Reframing. Refunds cover fair crawls Google declined. They do not exist to bankroll 404 campaigns. Precheck is how 404, noindex, media, and already-indexed URLs never become drip batches. Status-code docs: 404 and 410 should drop from the index, not enter a “please store this” queue. 451 is legally unavailable. A noindex is a publisher directive. Already indexed is a Google yes — do not pay 100 tokens to recrawl a document Google stores.

Proof. Product copy: availability scan (404/410/451, robots/noindex, media) plus optional Google index status (already indexed). Drip-feed docs tell you to filter before pacing. The 404 errors checker is the sample/audit sibling: it is not the task-create gate, but it tells you how dirty the buy is before you toggle anything.

Setup. Drip-feed Google task. Toggle precheck. Read the exclusion report. Only leftovers get drip_feed_days (2–30, URL count at least the day count). Do not re-add excluded 404s “to be sure.”

What skipping precheck costs on a bought list

Purchased comment sheets mix live HTML with 404s, noindex drafts, and URLs Google already stores. You either filter those classes before Create or you meet them in the day-7 error column with no refund on inaccessible rows. That is the expensive path.

A second expensive path is already-indexed rows. Pay-per-Result bills 100 tokens per URL that stays indexed at recheck. The already-indexed filter exists so those rows never enter drip-feed. Math first. Pride later.

"Turn precheck on when you did not hop-log the file yourself. A 404 is not an indexing miss. We would rather exclude it in a minute than argue about a refund in a week. Already-indexed URLs should not enter drip-feed. We bill the index row, not the click. We do not sell 100 percent inclusion."

— the SpeedyIndex team

Retrieval tests and precheck are for 200-class, indexable URLs. Everything else is a publisher ticket.

Workflow: know the filters, then drip what’s left

Ten steps. Each one leaves a loggable artifact.

Sample 404s yourself. Action: pull 20–50 random URLs from the buy. Tool: a 404 errors checker or curl -I -L. Setting: follow redirects; capture final status. Observable: 404/410/451 count in the sample. When: before a 10k drip. Success: you know dirt level. Failure: you assume the seller’s “all live.”
Enable optional precheck. Action: toggle on create. Tool: dashboard Google task. Setting: availability plus index-status if offered separately. Observable: UI shows excluded classes. When: dirty or unknown lists. Success: toggle on. Failure: you thought it was automatic and shipped Standard with corpses.
Read exclusions. Action: download excluded URLs by reason. Tool: precheck report. Setting: pile by 404/410/451 vs robots/noindex vs media vs already indexed. Observable: four piles with counts. When: before drip days start. Success: reasons exist and match the sample. Failure: empty exclusion on a filthy sample — something did not run.
Confirm tokens. Action: indexing hold drops for excluded rows. Tool: balance. Setting: 100 tokens not held per excluded URL. Observable: refund or release after precheck. When: immediately after the scan. Success: the math matches the piles. Failure: you expected free Google checks — index-status precheck may spend checker tokens when that half is on.
Do not drip excluded 404s “to be sure.” Action: leave them out. Tool: editor email if you paid for the post. Setting: publisher ticket, not a second SpeedyIndex task. Observable: no task membership. When: always. Failure: re-adding them to a second drip because the seller promised a fix “tomorrow.”
Already-indexed pile. Action: mark G-yes and stop. Tool: sheet column “live.” Setting: do not send. Observable: billed $0 indexing on those rows. When: after precheck. Failure: forcing them into drip “for freshness.” That is a reindex conversation, not this filter.
noindex pile. Action: view-source and response headers. Tool: browser plus curl -I. Setting: meta robots vs X-Robots-Tag. Observable: the directive. When: before you fight the vendor. Failure: drip anyway. Google is unlikely to store a page that asks not to be stored. Refunds on inaccessible or blocked URLs do not apply.
Set drip on the remainder. Action: days 2–30, count ≥ days. Tool: drip-feed indexing. Setting: Pay-per-Result, Googlebot Smartphone, no GSC. Observable: smaller N than the buy. When: after exclusions. Success: paced clean list, one task_id. Failure: remainder still 20,000 in Standard.
Day-7 only on what entered. Action: read the Pay-per-Result Google report. Tool: dashboard. Setting: excluded rows absent. Observable: indexed (100 tokens), eligible miss (refund), inaccessible (no refund). When: after last batch plus seven days. Failure: you compare precheck N to report N and panic — they should differ.
Keep the 404 checker for later samples. Action: monthly spot-check. Tool: 404 errors checker. Setting: 50 URLs from the same campaign. Observable: decay — posts that were 200 and are now 404. When: after the campaign. Failure: assuming placements stay 200 until the client audit.

Filter classes

These options all answer a slice of discovery. They do not answer the same slice. Score each method: best for / speed / risk / skip when.

404 / 410 / 451. Best to exclude always. Speed: precheck. Risk: if skipped, day-7 may not refund. Skip never on unknown files.
robots / noindex. Best as publisher bugs you send back to the editor. Speed: precheck. Risk: “hidden until launch” plugins. Skip sending.
Already indexed. Best as a money saver. Speed: checker half. Risk: checker token cost versus 100 indexing tokens. Skip only if you already ran a full Google checker on the same strings.
Media files. Best to exclude. Speed: precheck. Risk: pdf/image hrefs in a “backlink” dump. Skip indexing binaries here.
Manual curl only. Best for 20 URLs. Speed: too slow at 10,000. Risk: sampling error. Skip as the only gate on a bought file.

Takeaway: precheck is the named filters above, then drip the survivors. The 404 errors checker is how you know to turn it on. HTTP status docs are why 404 is not a miss.

When precheck looks “wrong”

Precheck off, many 404 errors in the day-7 report. Expected. Next file: on. Do not open a refund ticket for inaccessible URLs.

Already indexed still billed. Index-status half was off, or you dripped G-yes on purpose. Filter them.

Everything excluded. The list is dead or already live. Do not drip an empty remainder. Do not recreate Standard “just to try.”

Soft 404 on a 200. Status 200 may pass availability. Thin templates can still fail later. Precheck is not a quality judge.

301 chains. The object is the final URL. Flatten hops before drip. A chain can still be a problem; precheck is not a full redirect auditor.

You re-added excluded rows to a second task. You paid to ignore the report. Stop.

API created a drip with precheck omitted. Optional means omitted unless you set it. Dashboard and API both need the toggle.

Bing yes on a row precheck kept (Google no, live 200). Keep it in the Google drip if it is still indexable. Bing retrieval is not Google storage. There is no Bing indexer to confuse with this queue.

Survivor count fell below drip_feed_days. Shorten days (still 2–30) or switch a tiny remainder to Standard. Do not force a 21-day drip on 12 URLs.

You skipped the independent 404 sample and trusted the seller. Precheck can still drop corpses at Create. The sample exists so you know the buy is rotten before you lock the calendar and the client date.

Yandex mixed into the same Google drip after precheck. Yandex is a separate task with a day-15 recheck. Precheck on the Google drip does not send Bing or Yandex.

Field notes from files that skipped the gate

Illustrative scenario — not a real customer. A desk ran a Google status pass, dropped hundreds of already-indexed rows, then dripped the rest with precheck on. The “slow” gate was cheaper than holding 100 indexing tokens on documents Google already stored.

Illustrative scenario — not a real customer. They disabled precheck to “go faster.” Day 7 showed 404 errors. No refund. The seller still invoiced for the comments.

Illustrative scenario — not a real customer. noindex from a “SEO hide” app. Precheck caught it. The seller still got paid for a post Google was asked not to store.

Illustrative model based on typical conditions for a comment-link reseller

Illustrative model (not a production crawl log, not a real property):

5,000 comment hrefs
    |
    +--> sample via 404 errors checker
    |         --> dirt visible in 30 URLs
    |
    +--> optional precheck on Google task
    |         --> drop 800 dead (404/410/451)
    |         --> drop 200 noindex / robots / media
    |         --> drop 600 already indexed
    |         --> survivors 3,400
    |
    +--> drip-feed 21 days on 3,400
              --> last batch then +7 Google recheck
              --> 100 tokens per indexed URL
              --> no 404 refund fight on excluded rows

Assume 5,000 URLs. Precheck drops 800 dead, 600 already indexed, 200 noindex/robots/media. 3,400 enter a 21-day drip. Promise a report after last batch plus 7, not “5,000 in Google on day 21.” This is a workflow model, not a measured client result.

Questions about precheck filters and drip-feed

Q: Is precheck mandatory?

A: No. Optional. Use it on dirty or unknown lists. Bought comments count as unknown.

Q: Does it refund 404s after drip?

A: Do not count on indexing refunds for inaccessible URLs. Exclude first.

Q: Same as the 404 errors checker?

A: Related. The standalone 404 tool is a sample and audit. Precheck is tied to task create.

Q: Soft 404 on a 200?

A: Status 200 may pass availability. Quality can still fail later. Precheck is not a thin-content judge.

Q: Yandex precheck?

A: This article is the Google drip gate. Yandex has its own send path and a day-15 recheck.

Q: Media?

A: Excluded so you do not drip .jpg and .pdf hrefs from a “backlink” dump.

Q: 451?

A: Legally unavailable. Exclude. Not an indexing miss.

Q: 301?

A: Final URL is the object. Flatten before drip.

Q: 100 percent after precheck?

A: No. Google still decides storage. A paid request is a crawl attempt, not an inclusion guarantee.

Q: Where is the HTTP status doc?

A: Google Search Central HTTP status codes. 404 and 410 are removal signals, not submit targets.

What precheck keeps doing

Bought lists will stay dirty. Day-7 will stay a photograph of what was actually sent. Teams that treat optional as off will keep filing refund tickets the inaccessible-URL rule will refuse. The artifact that survives a stand-up is an exclusion report next to the drip task_id, plus a sample 404 log taken before Create.

Ten-minute action: 30 URLs from the next buy. Run the 404 checker and curl. Count 404, noindex, and media. If any appear, turn optional precheck on for 404/410/451, robots/noindex, media, and already indexed before you set drip_feed_days. Do not promise the client that skipped 404s will refund later. Do not create the drip until the sample is honest.

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, media files, and URLs already indexed.

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.