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  • JoelSinj
    JoelSinj last edited by Oct 7, 2022, 7:57 AM

    I'm still unable to see backlinks in Google Search Console, posted to BestGymHacks, the same as others. Does anyone know why?! Thanks in advance.

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    • topic:timeago_earlier,about a month
    • ninako.nnn
      ninako.nnn last edited by Aug 24, 2022, 8:34 AM

      fairly new to SEO but I'm facing the same issue with my site . How long does it typically take for backlinks to be reflected in analytics tools?

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      • topic:timeago_earlier,13 days
      • DeFi_Noodle
        DeFi_Noodle @Oorganika last edited by Aug 11, 2022, 2:52 PM

        @Oorganika what recourses do you use to track backlinks?

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        • DeFi_Noodle
          DeFi_Noodle @Joe_Stoffel last edited by Aug 9, 2022, 11:21 PM

          @Joe_Stoffel
          You're very helpful.
          For everyone struggling, unfortunately tracking backlinks has always been a problem even to this day. I find SEMrush and Ahrefs to be the best resources for free backlink tracking. If you connect all of your Google tools and social accounts to SEMrush you'll find the free version has more than enough resources available.

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          • Oorganika
            Oorganika last edited by Aug 8, 2022, 12:38 PM

            Search Console does not show all backlinks to your website, just a sample

            DeFi_Noodle 1 Reply Last reply Aug 11, 2022, 2:52 PM Reply Quote 1
            • IFTIKHARQ
              IFTIKHARQ last edited by Aug 7, 2022, 7:02 AM

              my website diggdomain.com backlinks showing in search console but not in Moz domain analysis. any idea why??

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              • JamilSEO
                JamilSEO last edited by Aug 4, 2022, 6:16 PM

                It is so normal to find less domains links in Google Search Console than in Ahref or other similar tool, for example I looked some pages about SEO like this jamilmansilla.com or this other and I found that there are a clear difference. If you want to know about your backlinks best check out with another tool.

                sdulu1 1 Reply Last reply May 26, 2024, 7:18 PM Reply Quote 0
                • greenbookmedia
                  greenbookmedia last edited by Aug 3, 2022, 2:51 PM

                  our website Lakshyaeducation has over 5000 Backlinks but google console still sow only about 700 Backlinks? Does that meass that google ingored all the rest of the backlinks or something is wrong here?

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                  • topic:timeago_earlier,16 days
                  • Rayhusk
                    Rayhusk last edited by Jul 18, 2022, 6:08 PM

                    I've been facing the same issue lately. Be it on MOZ, SEMRish, or Ubersuggest, my backlinks seem to be not showing at all. I've been regularly posting new backlinks but my DA remains the same.

                    The same backlinks are displayed on my competitor's websites. Please check my website and let me know if I'm missing something?

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                    • topic:timeago_earlier,4 months
                    • TheJustinMoore
                      TheJustinMoore last edited by Mar 26, 2022, 6:37 PM

                      Hello,

                      I can see that many recommendations of how to approach this issue of non-reflecting backlinks have already been provided. Unfortunately, I am still facing the same problem. In my case, weeks have already passed and I still cannot see any of those backlinks reflecting, even after confirming that they have actually been indexed by Google, Bing, and Yahoo. While my website crestwritings is relatively new, my team has been working hard on the backlinking approach but we are shocked to realize that the results are not forthcoming.

                      Someone please help me out.

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                      • Kashan-Ivacy
                        Kashan-Ivacy @victornyc last edited by Mar 22, 2022, 2:47 PM

                        @victornyc Going through the same issue. Half of SEO tools aren't crawling my links and showing zero backlinks for the said pages when in fact, I've seen google crawl and index all of those pages on its SERPs. This has got me confused and I'm now trying to find out my backlinks via the new Search Console but almost all the tutorials on the web only show how to find the links from the older interface. I can go to the "Links" option under the "Legacy tools and reports" but that only shows a handful of domains that have backlinked to my domain. That's very little info and doesn't distinguish links on page-wise basis. If it links to my domain, literally, any page of my domain regardless of the page, it just shows up there. Not helpful when I'm trying to find out backlinks for a certain page. As I type this, there are more than 1770 pages indexed by Google and my team is working on more than a hundred important pages at the moment. Is there a better way to know my backlinks, for the site and any particular page via the official Webmasters/GSC/Any search console? Another issue with these third-party tools is that they're showing up links to noindex, nofollow pages while not being able to fully show the actual indexed pages with follow links.

                        Thanks 🙂

                        PS: I do understand that recently created links don't exactly show up on these tools. and I do understand that these tools have a crawler of their own, but at this point, it feels like I can't use these tools as a benchmark to present the quarterly progress of the brand.

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                        • topic:timeago_earlier,3 months
                        • victornyc
                          victornyc last edited by Dec 29, 2021, 4:47 PM

                          How long does it typically take for backlinks to show up? My SEO guy tells me the backlink to my site should have been indexed a couple of months back but it is still not showing up. is there any way I can speed this up

                          Kashan-Ivacy 1 Reply Last reply Mar 22, 2022, 2:47 PM Reply Quote 0
                          • topic:timeago_earlier,2 months
                          • maula007
                            maula007 last edited by Nov 14, 2021, 9:21 AM

                            Same problem is here! I run a matrimony website called Bandhan Media. My SEO team is working hard for getting high DA backlinks. I know they have placed my link in many websites. But unfortunately, these backlinks are not appearing in Google search console.

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                            • topic:timeago_earlier,2 months
                            • adam71299
                              adam71299 @Joe_Stoffel last edited by Sep 23, 2021, 12:12 PM

                              @joe_stoffel Hi Joe, interesting take on paid backlinks. Do google really have the algorithm to identify heavy anchor text rich sites as blackhat? Just asking because i'm trying to build my site's DA. CarCrashProfit I was wondering whether my car insurance industry specific backlinks are not showing up because google see some of the referring domains as bad?

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                              • topic:timeago_earlier,2 years
                              • Eyekia
                                Eyekia last edited by Nov 7, 2019, 2:59 AM Nov 7, 2019, 2:59 AM

                                Hey

                                I am also facing this issue for my news website and I am working on it from last 2 months but still, none of my backlinks are indexed properly you can check my website blockcrux in Moz it has zero domains

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                                • topic:timeago_earlier,5 months
                                • iogoos
                                  iogoos last edited by Jun 7, 2019, 5:56 AM Jun 7, 2019, 5:56 AM

                                  Hi guys, 
                                  Thanks for your answers but the problem still exist. can you give us solution for it, because ahref listed all my backlinks but they are not showing in goolge webmaster you can check my backlinks of staken in ahref  and also check attached file of webmaster

                                  Capture.html

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                                  • topic:timeago_earlier,7 months
                                  • vinaso993
                                    vinaso993 last edited by Oct 26, 2018, 4:31 AM Oct 26, 2018, 4:31 AM

                                    Joe Thanks for wonderful explanation. Just more curious .You have written:

                                    The links could be using some form of redirect that is not search engine friendly (crawlers are unable to follow it).

                                    Is there any ways to find it out if the website is redirecting it

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                                    • topic:timeago_earlier,about a year
                                    • Joe_Stoffel
                                      Joe_Stoffel @denakalami last edited by Aug 28, 2017, 6:17 PM Aug 28, 2017, 6:17 PM

                                      You are very welcome! Happy to help!

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                                      • denakalami
                                        denakalami last edited by Aug 28, 2017, 5:12 PM Aug 28, 2017, 5:12 PM

                                        thanks a million dear Joe.

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                                        • Joe_Stoffel
                                          Joe_Stoffel @denakalami last edited by Aug 28, 2017, 5:12 PM Aug 28, 2017, 11:54 AM

                                          You are welcome.

                                          Are you sure you are looking in the correct Google Search Console property? (http:// vs https:// vs http://www. vs https://www) - If you are looking in the https://www. property but these links point to the http://www. version of a URL, they will not register in this report.

                                          I assume your links is one of these on the left-hand sidebar? (screenshot). If so, Google should be hitting your links whether they display in Search Console or not. I can see them in the cached version of a page and I can see parisnews.ir show up in an Open Site Explorer backlink report for tizland.ir.

                                          That being said, I would caution you on these types of back links. Sitewide, anchor text heavy back links that appear to have been paid for such as these can trigger unwanted attention from Google and can lead to a penalized website. I'd recommend a more white hat approach to your link acquisition, see this Whiteboard Friday for more on this subject.

                                          adam71299 Jorden46 2 Replies Last reply Dec 16, 2023, 9:30 PM Reply Quote 2
                                          • denakalami
                                            denakalami last edited by Aug 28, 2017, 3:14 AM Aug 28, 2017, 3:14 AM

                                            Thank you Joe,

                                            the following url contain some back links (sitewide)

                                            http://parsinews.ir/

                                            Joe_Stoffel 1 Reply Last reply Aug 28, 2017, 11:54 AM Reply Quote 0
                                            • Joe_Stoffel
                                              Joe_Stoffel last edited by Aug 27, 2017, 7:51 PM Aug 27, 2017, 7:51 PM

                                              Hello,

                                              There are several reasons this could be happening:

                                              1. The page(s) containing your links may not have been discovered/indexed. It is possible Google is not able to access the pages containing your links.

                                              2. The links could be using some form of redirect that is not search engine friendly (crawlers are unable to follow it).

                                              3. The pages containing your links could be using a 'nofollow' directive that is preventing bots from accessing your links/outbound links.

                                              4. They have been crawled and Google is simply not listing them in Google Search Console as they have acknowledged is normal in this Google Search Console help article ("Not all links to your site may be listed. This is normal.").

                                              Hard to say without being able to see the links firsthand. If you would like to message me with the pages containing your links, I would be happy to take a quick look.

                                              DeFi_Noodle HimaniEzrankings 2 Replies Last reply Aug 1, 2023, 9:59 AM Reply Quote 2
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