Is your newest page in Google?

No one can: Google decides what it indexes. What we guarantee is what you pay for. You only pay for links that get indexed, and anything not indexed after 7 days gets its credit back automatically.

Google sets the pace, and it says crawling can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. What we control is the re-check: we re-check every link on days 1, 3 and 7, so you see exactly when each one made it.

Links that can't be indexed: 404 or dead pages, noindex, blocked by robots.txt, redirected, or canonical pointing elsewhere. We flag these before you submit, so you can skip them and keep the credit.

1 index credit = 1 URL, used only if it gets indexed. 1 check credit = 1 Standard index check (Live = 5). A check is one look-up of whether a URL is in Google's index. Standard checks run in batches; a Live check runs on demand and costs 5 check credits.

Pack credits never expire. On Agency plans, unused links and checks roll over to the next month for as long as the plan is active. They end if you cancel or the plan ends; switching between Agency plans keeps them. On Free, the 10 one-time links never expire and the free checks reset every month.

Packs aren't refundable, but their credits never expire, and any link that isn't indexed after 7 days gets its credit back. Plans can be cancelled any time and keep working until the end of the period you paid for; there are no refunds for part of a period.

Yes, on Agency plans. Agency Starter puts your logo on reports; Agency Pro adds your colours and sender name on reports and emails; Agency Scale runs it all on your own domain.

Yes. Free accounts get a read-only API. Agency plans get the full REST API, and Agency Pro and Agency Scale add an MCP server, so AI assistants that support MCP can check and submit links for you.

No. We check index status ourselves, so you don't need Search Console access. That matters for backlinks, which sit on sites you don't own.

Yes, agencies first. Each client gets a workspace (10 on Agency Starter, unlimited on Agency Pro and Agency Scale), you can paste hundreds of links at once, and every submission has a shareable report link: link by link, no login, revocable any time, and under your brand on Agency plans.

Request an invite on the sign-up page: FreshlyCited is invite-only right now, and we're letting agencies in in small groups. A person reads every request. With your invite, sign up with Google or an email link (no password), and your account starts on Free: 10 free links to try (once you verify your email), then 100 free checks a month, no card. Upgrade to a pack or plan when you've seen the result.

Any time. You keep access until the end of the period you paid for, and unused plan credits end with the plan. Packs aren't subscriptions, so there's nothing to cancel, and their credits never expire.

Google still sends about 9 in 10 of the visits that search engines send to websites worldwide (StatCounter, September 2026). Its AI Overviews and AI Mode only link to pages that are “indexed and eligible to be shown in Google Search with a snippet.” Google also says indexing “isn't guaranteed”, so being indexed is the first step. Whether an AI answer cites your page still depends on quality, relevance and authority.

No one can promise that. Being indexed makes a page eligible to appear as a link in AI Overviews or AI Mode; it doesn't put it there. Google says indexing and serving “isn't guaranteed”, and whether an AI answer cites your page still depends on quality, relevance and authority. We help good new and updated pages get found and indexed by Google, then show you what's indexed.

Google says Gemini can ground its answers in “content from the Google Search index”, when it decides a search helps. So helping a good page get indexed by Google is the first step there too. Whether Gemini cites it still depends on quality, relevance and authority.

AEO, answer engine optimization, is the work of getting your pages found, trusted and cited in AI answers, such as Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode. For Google's AI features it starts with being in Google's index: an answer can't link to a page Google hasn't indexed, or use a version of it Google hasn't crawled yet.

GEO, generative engine optimization, is the same goal described from the other side: making your content visible in answers written by generative AI. In practice AEO and GEO cover the same work, and both start with being indexed, then with being the clearest, most trustworthy source on the question.

Less than the acronyms suggest. Google's own AI optimization guide says “optimizing for generative AI search is optimizing for the search experience, and thus still SEO,” and that its AI features retrieve relevant, up-to-date pages from its Search index. FreshlyCited works on the step both depend on: getting new and updated pages indexed by Google.

It can help, but it isn't a switch. In one 2026 study, most pages AI answers cited had been updated within the past year, yet quality, relevance and authority matter more. Update a page when its content really changes; changing only the date doesn't count, and Google says so.

No. IndexNow is an open 'this page changed' notice that Bing and other participating engines accept; Google doesn't use it, so we submit to Google separately. The IndexNow notice to Bing is a free bonus for sites you verify: Microsoft says Copilot's web answers use the Bing search service. We say “sent to Bing”, because Bing doesn't confirm indexing back to us.

No. ChatGPT, Perplexity and other assistants use their own crawlers and search partners. We don't submit to them, and we don't claim to.

No, and nobody honest can. Each AI answer chooses its sources based on quality, relevance and authority. What we do is help good new and updated pages get found and indexed by Google sooner, send them to Bing, and show you what's indexed.