Why are Backlinks not showing up?
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I've been building backlinks for about 2 months now, but the links are not showing up in seomoz. What is going on?
I've built backlinks across many different domains and using a variety of techniques including:
- directories
- blog posts
- blog commenting
- pr websites
- industry sites that allow blog posting and press release posting
- industry forums
Some of the links I built were from finding links competitors had and then creating a similar link, like blog commenting. In some cases I took blog articles from our site and published them on industry blog sites.
I've searched for many of the pages and I CAN find them, so they ARE being indexed by Google, but they are not showing up as backlinks. I've read some posts that say it can take anywhere from 2 to 5 months or longer before the links show up. I've also read that Google's Webmaster Tools may show the links before seomoz does.
Couple questions:
- Why don't the links show up as backlinks in seomoz?
- Will they show up eventually in seomoz and, if so, when?
- Should the links show up in Google Webmaster tools before they do in seomoz?
- Is there any good reason to believe some of the links will never get recognized, or should I be confident that they will eventually get recognized?
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Linkscape, which powers Open Site Explorer, only crawls the top 25% or so of the web right now. Also, the crawl is done once a month, so that's why it can take some time to show up. We're working on getting the crawls faster, but that is why things are slower than Google. We have a few less servers than they do at our disposal to make the crawls.
We did just have an update this morning, you might want to check out the blog post from Rand for more information.
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I have found that it takes 6-8 weeks for most links to show...sometimes up to 5 months. I once got a link from a reputable website in my niche in page anchor text do - flow link and it was a 5 month process on SEOMOZ..although SEOmajestic and Linkbuilder showed it as a link.
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