This site went live today. It has the three properties that make indexing hard: the domain sat registered but unused for a year, it has no backlinks, and Google has no content history with it at all. In other words, it's in exactly the position most of our future customers' pages are in, which makes it the perfect first customer.
The experiment
rank.fast is a Google indexing service built on three ideas: filter URLs before spending anything, route submissions to whichever provider is most likely to land them, and verify the outcome independently through Google Search Console rather than trusting anyone's self-report. The methodology is written up in full here.
Instead of telling you that works, we're going to show you, on ourselves:
- Every page this site publishes goes through our own pipeline.
- Four timestamps are recorded per URL: published, submitted, first Googlebot hit, indexed, each verified via the URL Inspection API, not eyeballed.
- All of it is published on the live index log, and the raw
data is public at
/data/crawl-log.json.
The rules
- Nothing gets deleted. Slow weeks, failed URLs, and embarrassing gaps ship along with the wins.
- No claims ahead of data. We won't quote a success rate until we have measured one on real volume. Right now our track record is three URLs, all pending, and the log says exactly that.
- Indexed, not ranked. The experiment measures time-to-index. Whether these pages ever rank for anything is a different question that indexing alone doesn't answer.
Where things stand tonight
Three URLs published at 2026-08-21 18:04 UTC: the homepage, the
methodology page, and this post. None submitted yet; the pipeline is being wired up
in the open too. For the first stretch the log will be updated by hand from
Search Console. Publication, in other words, is the starting gun.
The interesting questions we expect this experiment to answer along the way: how long does Google take to find a zero-authority domain without help? How much does submission actually accelerate that? And do different providers behave differently on a cold domain? That last one is the exact data our routing engine will be built on.
Update: 54 minutes in
Added 2026-08-21 19:05 UTC. This post is indexed. The timeline:
submitted to PrimeIndexer at 18:53:52 UTC; their dashboard
reported it completed 44 seconds later at 18:54:36 UTC; we
observed it live in Google search results at 18:58 UTC, 54
minutes after publication, on a domain with not a single inbound link.
Being precise about what that means, per our own rules: the provider's
"completed" is a claim, and our search-results sighting is the
probabilistic verification tier. We'll confirm against the URL Inspection
API and record the crawl time when Search Console catches up. The other
two URLs, the homepage (Search Console request only) and the methodology
page (submitted to Rapid URL Indexer at 18:54:01 UTC), are
still pending, which is the comparison the experiment is for.
Follow along
Updates land here and on the log as they happen. There's an RSS feed if you'd like the next post (first Googlebot hit or first indexed page, whichever comes next) delivered to you.