Methods for getting links to my site indexed?
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What are the best practices for getting links to my site indexed in search engines. We have been creating content and acquiring backlinks for the last few months. They are not being found in the back link checkers or in the Open Site Explorer. What are the tricks of the trade for imporiving the time and indexing of these links?
I have read about some RSS methods using wordpress sites but that seems a little shady and i am sure google is looking for that now. Look forward to your advice.
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Thanks for the advice. All responses were very helpful.
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OSE takes a while, so don't expect sudden results. Start analyzing the sites/pages these links are on in OSE.
For example, if www.example.com (where your link is from) isn't in OSE, then OSE won't find your link.
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Are those links visible in Google Webmaster Console ? Are the pages where you links are, cached in Google ? When you look at the cached version of that page, do you see your link ?
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Our links are all of the above. We do have some low quality links - but we also have links from relavent sources in our industry and paid directories like Best of Web, Joeant, DirJournal, etc...
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Some shady link exchange guys place your links on orphan pages that themselves do not have any links. As a results those pages and your links are never discovered in the crawl.
Also, lots of webmasters decide... I'll toss up a new domain and load it with links to all of my sites.. he he... they toss up that domain, it never gets discovered (because it has no links) and all of that effort was wasted.
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A common practice to get a link picked up faster is to "Ping it" but as others have already said, if you are getting a good link, it should get picked up on it's own quick enough.
Regardless to the links you get, quality or not, pinging them is a good way to try and get a search engine's attention. You can also visit a site that one of your links is on, and check Google's cache to see if Google has updated the cache since your link has been placed. This will help identify if the link has even been crawled. If you notice Google has been on the page after your link was placed, check Webmaster Tools to see if it's showed up in there at all.
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You may consider top directories for immediate effect.
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It could be that your links are poor quality or on poor domains. It could also be that Open Site Explorer hasnt updated since your links went live.
Where are you getting the links from and what methods are you using to acquire the links?
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You are likely getting your links from really low quality places then. Get links from better places
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