When you check your site backlinks from search engine, there is a delay. Generally speaking, your site backlinks will appear in search engine about 3-5 days later, however, inside the search engine which update are immediately.
For good using of Google Alerts, you can greatly improve the efficiency of
SEO. There are few steps to monitor your site backlinks.
1. Login your Google Alerts account and create a subject to monitor.
2. Login your e-mail and confirm the verification.
3. Just read you mail. Google alerts will send the notification messages when new backlinks added.
11-18-2010, 02:34 PM
Monitoring Your Site Backlinks By Google Alerts 
