Crawld vs IndexRusher
IndexRusher gets you indexed. Crawld measures whether being indexed turned into being cited.
What IndexRusher is built for
Getting pages indexed fast across Google, Bing and LLM crawlers.
The difference
Indexing latency is a real problem with a real solution, and tools in this category solve it. For a new site, or one publishing faster than a crawler naturally revisits, getting into the index quickly is a genuine bottleneck.
The thing to understand is that indexing and citation are different states. Being in the index makes you eligible to be cited. Whether you actually are depends on whether the answer is extractable from your page, whether there is enough attribution for an engine to credit you, and whether a competitor is simply easier to quote.
Crawld is built around that third step. It tracks citation share per engine and per prompt for the queries you compete on, and the 16 GEO checks measure what is blocking a citation rather than what is blocking an index entry.
These are complementary rather than opposed. Fast indexing plus nothing worth citing gets you into an index nobody quotes from.
Side by side
| Feature | Crawld | IndexRusher |
|---|---|---|
| Problem solved | Whether engines cite you | Whether engines have stored you |
| Measurement | Citation share per engine, per prompt | Index status |
| Remediation | Ranked fixes delivered as diffs | Not the focus |
| Full-site audit | 129 checks | Not the focus |
When IndexRusher is the better choice
If your pages are not getting indexed at all, fix that first, and a dedicated indexing tool will do it faster than a rubric will. Citation share is a question you can only ask once you are in the index.
How to check for yourself
Run the free scorecard against your own site and compare it to whatever you are using now. The number worth comparing is not the score. It is the coverage next to it. A 94 at 40% coverage and a 71 at 95% coverage are not measuring the same thing, and only one of them tells you what it did not look at.