Third-party indexers: do the paid ones actually work?

Third-party indexers: do the paid ones actually work?

I threw 500 stubborn URLs each at two services for a fair test.

Setup: paste URLs, pay per credit. OmegaIndexer ~$10/500, IndexCeo similar tiers.

What they do well:
— Convenient bulk submission, simple dashboards
— Reported ~30-45% index rate on genuinely orphaned pages within 2 weeks

Where they fall short:
— No service can force-index thin or duplicate content — that's a quality problem, not a crawl one
— 'Indexed %' dashboards count anything in the index, including soft-404 cousins
— You can't verify their method (often just spun-up links + pings)

Pros: saves manual work, occasionally rescues good orphans.
Cons: opaque, useless on low-quality pages, recurring cost.

Best for: sites with strong content that's simply undiscovered (poor internal linking).

Not for: anyone using them to mask thin pages — you're paying to delay the real fix.