Why Google is not getting many of the links to my site?
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Hello,
I have a website for cosmetics, selling and a lot of information (http://www.vipcosmetica.com). For about half a year I've been working also in seo for several google keywords.
My question is about the external links to my site. Using different tools, including those of SEOMoz, I see just a few links to my site, however there are plenty, because I've been putting them myself, in public directories, related blogs, industry websites and so on. Alexa shows 5 links only, OpenSiteExplorer shows 4, and Market Samurai 9. I thinks theres should be like 50-60 links, minimum, in pages with good google PR (Youtube, Vimeo, Vulka, Hotfrog, Digg, Flickr, etc.).
In Alexa, recently two more links appeared, from two blogs that have copied some content from my site (priveta policy) without changing the original links that point to other pages on my site, and those are the links that Alexa shows now.
What could be the reason the rest of the links do not appear at all?
Thank you very much
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I made some changes in the webmastertools settings for the site, yesterday (region, domain) and now I have information about links from external sites (from around 50 different webs like flickr, youtube, etc, facebook, etc).
I used also the google command link: in the search, and I've got many results also. So, as far as I understand this means that the backlinks info is properly indexed within google.
The problem is I think this linking info is not counting, somehow, because I tried again with SEOmoz / MarketSamurai / OpenSiteExplorer and there is no backlinkg info, just 8 or 9 links, from very unknown sites (not youtube, flickr, facebook, etc.). So I really dont understand what is happening....
Thanks again!!
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Its hard to say when the link will be picked up, if it was a link from BBC then a matter of days, if it was on a blogger blog that someone setup years ago and has not touched it then could take along time.
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I use webmastertools but in the links section, shows always a message 'NO DATA AVAILABLE' and I did not find anything clear about the reason for that, but after months there is still no data.
I thought about the sites where I put the links to be spam sites, but, some of them, I check with google and other tools, and they have high PR (4 to
and also quite good authority ratio, etc. I just think there is something basic I'm missing!!! Do you kwnow how long it takes for google to pick up links, aprox? weeks, months? for example from a youtube video (the link is in the video description) ?
Anyway, I'll try the guest post on a blog, very good advise. Thanks a lot for your answer, really appreciate.
cheers
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If you got webmaster tools hooked up it should show you in there links from external websites.
It does take time for links to appear but I think if you built 20 links in the first month at least 5-10 should be showing by now UNLESS...
The links you built are on websites which Google does not visit that much or the links are so deep into the site Google does not crawl that deep.
Do a guest post on a blog with PR2+ with some good followers on facebook and twitter, maybe a few rss subscribers and I bet within a month that link is picked up.
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