https://rank.fast/blog/ The rank.fast build log: indexing a zero-authority domain with our own product, published as it happens. en https://rank.fast/blog/url-is-unknown-to-google/ https://rank.fast/blog/url-is-unknown-to-google/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:20:00 GMT Two of our posts sat in this Search Console status for up to eight days: in the sitemap, linked, and never fetched by Googlebot. What the message means, why it happens on small sites, and the fix, timed. https://rank.fast/blog/guest-post-pilot-30-day-results/ https://rank.fast/blog/guest-post-pilot-30-day-results/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT Every checkable link still live and dofollow; every submitted host page indexed within hours; left-alone pages slower and one dropped out; no measurable lift on the deep target pages. Published four days late. https://rank.fast/blog/indexing-issues-detected-live-test/ https://rank.fast/blog/indexing-issues-detected-live-test/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:56:00 GMT Search Console rejected your indexing request. What the message means, the three checks the live test runs, the five usual causes, and the fix. https://rank.fast/blog/do-backlinks-need-to-be-indexed/ https://rank.fast/blog/do-backlinks-need-to-be-indexed/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:22:00 GMT Five host pages we submitted were indexed within hours. Of five we left alone, one took eleven days, one twenty, and two are still not in Google at day 23 and 26. https://rank.fast/blog/how-guest-post-spam-detection-works/ https://rank.fast/blog/how-guest-post-spam-detection-works/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:20:00 GMT A sitemap is written by the seller, a feed shows only the last few posts, and the index is the one the seller cannot curate. The full method, the false positives it produces, and what it did to our numbers. https://rank.fast/blog/how-to-vet-a-guest-post-site/ https://rank.fast/blog/how-to-vet-a-guest-post-site/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:05:00 GMT One in six guest post sites that passed a homepage screen failed when we read their sitemaps and recent posts. The checks that work, the false positives that catch keyword lists, and the numbers from 3,805 domains. https://rank.fast/blog/impressions-but-no-clicks/ https://rank.fast/blog/impressions-but-no-clicks/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:10:00 GMT Week four on a new domain: 465 Search Console impressions, up from 285, and zero clicks. Every query moved up, every position is still page 6 to 9. What ranks on page one for those terms instead, and the full sample audit report we published the same afternoon. https://rank.fast/blog/google-ai-mode-brand-recommendations/ https://rank.fast/blog/google-ai-mode-brand-recommendations/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:42:45 GMT How Google AI Mode decides which brands to recommend, tested on ourselves: named in the recommendation set on other companies' evidence, then told readers to bookmark our log and wait for the 30-day results. Every answer quoted, with what it cited, plus ChatGPT four days later. https://rank.fast/blog/bing-not-indexing-new-site/ https://rank.fast/blog/bing-not-indexing-new-site/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:37:40 GMT We gave Google and Bing the same clean pages on day one. Google had all 21 within minutes. Bing had none for twelve days, then two, then six, on no action from us. The dates, the console messages, and what it says about how Bing treats a new domain. https://rank.fast/blog/two-weeks-in-search-console/ https://rank.fast/blog/two-weeks-in-search-console/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:33:04 GMT Two weeks of Search Console on a brand new domain, in full: 311 impressions in a week, 87 queries, one click, positions in the 60s to 90s. The page Google is auditioning, the one change we made, and the brand name in two countries. https://rank.fast/blog/what-ai-says-about-your-business/ https://rank.fast/blog/what-ai-says-about-your-business/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:04:33 GMT We built a free AI visibility check and ran it on ourselves twice, three days apart. Claude described a different company, ChatGPT called the domain parked, Grok got it right. What changed after we fixed the off-site signals, quoted verbatim. https://rank.fast/blog/guest-post-delivery/ https://rank.fast/blog/guest-post-delivery/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:22:50 GMT Guest post turnaround measured on ten real placements: median 5.9 hours from order to live, seven of ten within nine hours, three publishers replaced, all live across a weekend and a bank holiday. Interim indexing results, labelled interim. https://rank.fast/blog/best-free-seo-tools-small-business/ https://rank.fast/blog/best-free-seo-tools-small-business/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:06:00 GMT Seven genuinely free SEO tools compared by job, useful free limit and who should skip each, with a transparent methodology and no affiliate links. https://rank.fast/blog/cheap-seo-stack/ https://rank.fast/blog/cheap-seo-stack/ Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:10:00 GMT An Ahrefs alternative for founders, with receipts: under $50 total tooling spend since day zero, including AI review of 4,800 websites. The five-piece ungated stack we run an SEO company on. https://rank.fast/blog/long-tail-keywords/ https://rank.fast/blog/long-tail-keywords/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:07:00 GMT Our 7-day-old domain's complete search record: 13 queries, 17 impressions, 0 clicks. What long-tail auditions look like before rankings exist, and the strategy stated plainly. A living post. https://rank.fast/blog/google-recrawl/ https://rank.fast/blog/google-recrawl/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:05:00 GMT We rewrote our homepage and measured how long Google took to show the new version: under an hour. Why stale results happen and every way to trigger a recrawl, free to paid. https://rank.fast/blog/crawled-not-indexed/ https://rank.fast/blog/crawled-not-indexed/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:07:00 GMT The Search Console status explained with measured timestamps: crawling is logistics, indexing is judgment, and the gap between them ran 2 minutes to 3 hours on our own zero-backlink domain. https://rank.fast/blog/pilot-protocol/ https://rank.fast/blog/pilot-protocol/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 23:57:00 GMT Published before the first purchase: the full measurement protocol for our guest post pilot, with fixed windows, declared failure states, and a changelog. https://rank.fast/blog/marketplace-study/ https://rank.fast/blog/marketplace-study/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 11:01:00 GMT Two link marketplaces mirrored in full: 159,736 listings, mechanical screens, AI review of every survivor. About 2% passed. Method, the kinds of junk, and the curated service we're building. https://rank.fast/blog/the-race/ https://rank.fast/blog/the-race/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Four indexing routes raced on the same zero-authority domain, timed to the second: fastest crawled in 9 seconds and indexed in 2 minutes. Full dataset, server-verified. https://rank.fast/blog/day-zero/ https://rank.fast/blog/day-zero/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:04:00 GMT rank.fast starts life the way most indexing customers do: with pages Google has no reason to find. The experiment, the rules, and what we expect to happen.