Links in to a site

rosetrees · 11-22-2009, 04:31 AM

I Have been doing some promotion for a client's site. I just searched on Yahoo for links:www. clientsite. com.

It shows 5 incoming links. But...... I've used Big Mike's directory bot and social bot on it. I also manually added it to some of the main social bookmarking sites as well as manually adding it to local directories and adding links from some of my own sites, etc. This has been over a period of about three weeks.

Why do none of these links show? Am I wasting my time?

Carol

Sara Young · 11-22-2009, 04:34 AM

Carol,

You are not wasting your time.

Some links take a while to be discovered by the search engines.

Other links never show up - not because they are not there, but rather because the search engines don't show you all the backlinks that they know about.

So keep getting those links.

Sara

alucard001 · 11-22-2009, 05:59 AM

I think it is simply because search engine does not find it yet. But it is ok and your effort will not be wasted

Liam Hamer · 11-22-2009, 07:43 AM

Social bookmarks rarely show up in backlink checkers, and it can take 30 days and more for our sites to be approved in directories, let alone indexed. Always bear in mind that you are only ever going to see a percentage of your backlinks in any of the backlink checkers

That said, I find this one is the most thorough and reliable(not an affiliate link):-

SEO SpyGlass Software - Instantly Find Out How Your Competitors Got To 'Top Ten' In Google, Yahoo! and Bing Search Engines

(go to 'download free edition' at the bottom of the page)

If you are moving up the rankings, your efforts are working - base things on that, rather than the amount of links that show up

There are of course many other factors too - how old your site is, the level of competition, your onpage SEO, how varied and consistent your link building is etc etc.

11-22-2009, 04:31 AM	#1
rosetrees Carol War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: UK Posts: 2,735 Blog Entries: 13 Thanks: 341 Thanked 736 Times in 516 Posts Social Networking	Links in to a site - why don't they show I Have been doing some promotion for a client's site. I just searched on Yahoo for links:www. clientsite. com. It shows 5 incoming links. But...... I've used Big Mike's directory bot and social bot on it. I also manually added it to some of the main social bookmarking sites as well as manually adding it to local directories and adding links from some of my own sites, etc. This has been over a period of about three weeks. Why do none of these links show? Am I wasting my time? Carol
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11-22-2009, 04:34 AM	#2
Sara Young Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 729 Thanks: 380 Thanked 175 Times in 86 Posts Contact Info	Re: Links in to a site - why don't they show Carol, You are not wasting your time. Some links take a while to be discovered by the search engines. Other links never show up - not because they are not there, but rather because the search engines don't show you all the backlinks that they know about. So keep getting those links. Sara
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11-22-2009, 05:59 AM	#3
alucard001 The E.L. War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 79 Thanks: 101 Thanked 27 Times in 11 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Links in to a site - why don't they show I think it is simply because search engine does not find it yet. But it is ok and your effort will not be wasted
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11-22-2009, 07:43 AM	#4
Liam Hamer SEO Enthusiast War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: UK Posts: 1,164 Thanks: 579 Thanked 242 Times in 140 Posts	Re: Links in to a site - why don't they show Social bookmarks rarely show up in backlink checkers, and it can take 30 days and more for our sites to be approved in directories, let alone indexed. Always bear in mind that you are only ever going to see a percentage of your backlinks in any of the backlink checkers That said, I find this one is the most thorough and reliable(not an affiliate link):- SEO SpyGlass Software - Instantly Find Out How Your Competitors Got To 'Top Ten' In Google, Yahoo! and Bing Search Engines (go to 'download free edition' at the bottom of the page) If you are moving up the rankings, your efforts are working - base things on that, rather than the amount of links that show up There are of course many other factors too - how old your site is, the level of competition, your onpage SEO, how varied and consistent your link building is etc etc.