Links not pointing to my website?
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Aloha everyone!
I've asked questions to the Moz community before and have always been happy to see how responsive and helpful the community is as a SEO learning new comer! Many thanks in advance for any ideas or insights to solving this problem.
So here is my question, I own a wedding photography business here on Kauai and am looking to rank for a few things, Kauai wedding photographer, Kauai Wedding videographer, and Kauai family photographer. That aside I've been pouring more time into getting back links from people I've shot with here on Kauai (local business's websites etc) and have had links dropped in on their sites to, in theory, bump my rankings up from back linking my website.
Here's my website http://www.balihaiphoto.com/
Here's a few sites but are not showing up as backlinks/pushing my site higher on SEO results (screen shot as well) http://www.haleleakeiki.org/ (bottom of page footer linking to BaliHaiPhoto.com) and another site here
http://www.wishingwellshaveice.com/ with the same thing, footer link pointing to my website.
Both sites have been indexed and the shave ice one gets a good amount of traffic, does anyone know why this isn't showing as a back link or if its passing on any link juice my way? Should I do something diffrent here? Let me know what you guys think!
Aloha from Kauai,
Jon Gibb
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Thanks for the response!
So thats the problem, none of them are showing as backlinks anywhere. The non-profit website is pretty stagnant and not changed often but the shave ice one is consistently getting new posts from their social media feed.
And good to know! I will be sure to have that in future websites if I shoot photos to have the link in the body.
So all in all the footer of websites wont really link over then is what I'm guessing? Both sites are squarespace sites as well.
Many thanks!
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How long have they been in place?
Sometimes a link from a static website won't show up in my reports for a year or more. If the website rarely changes, they don't get crawled that often.
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When you say that these links aren't showing as backlinks- where are you looking? Google search console? Moz? Ahrefs?
Not all the links you get will show up imediately or at all in some of the tools- it doesn't mean that you don't have the links. Some of the tools cannot crawl everything so that's why it's a good idea to use lots of tools to see backlinks for you or your competitors.
Footer links don't pass on a lot of SEO link juice anyway so I wouldn't expect a massive increase in your ranking by adding a link in the footer of your clients. The best place is in the body of the page but we know how hard that can be to get one there!
Best of luck.
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