Commercial Indexers Rely on Temporary X Posts for Rapid Google Indexing

X (formerly Twitter) gets crawled and indexed at high speed, serving as the engine behind third-party indexing services.

Sasha Khilova reports that many more-or-less successful commercial indexers rely on post-and-delete indexing, publishing target URLs in temporary X posts to trigger fast indexation and deleting the posts once indexed.

Automating this workflow now carries a direct cost: X apparently shut down free API posting in February 2026, introducing a $25 minimum package; posting via API is broadly possible, but the platform is stricter in its rules.

Separately, Threads ranks well in search overall, and both Threads and Instagram introduced image alt attributes that almost no practitioners use.

Because the search engine indexes both the social posts and the images themselves, populating alt tags allows posts to rank fairly well through images.