Links not showing

[doomzday]

I've built a Wordpress blog on a micro niche and the domain is 1 and a half months old.

The problem is that I've been building links but I can't see the any of the ones I built 2-3 weeks ago. I've tried using SEO SpyGlass, Majestic SEO, Open site explorer, Google Webmaster and backlinkwatch.com but no results.

In the early days I didn't do much activity for like 1-2 weeks, then I started adding content and built links gradually mostly article directories and blog posts. After that I've been using Senuke to build links, not really blasting it but 30-40 links a day. Apart from a single "Google Dance" in between, the website's ranking has stayed almost identical.

One more thing I would like to mention is that I submitted a Press Release on prlog.com, and it is ranking on 1st page in google. I've added a link to the site in it but that link doesn't show in the link checkers either.

What should I do? Are the backlinks not getting indexed or something? Should I be concerned?

[doomzday]

Did anyone else encounter this problem? :\

[ADifferentNinja]

I honestly wouldn't worry about that, just continue what you're doing, the important thing is that Google will be finding these links and that's all you should be worried about.

[C Rebecca]

The most possible reason for this could be nofollow links.
It seems that links you are building for your website are nofollow, which is wht they are not showing up in any backlink checker.

[didyouknow]

did you check if the pages where you put the links are indexed? If not try using something like Linklicious to get them indexed...

[Chris-]

You can try to do a search on the main Google search engine, just putting your domain in quotes, then the results should be every page that has your domain in it anywhere (including your own pages, plus any backlinks indexed by Google). This can sometimes show very different results from any other method, even when Google Webmaster shows nothing, a simple search like that might show lots of backlinks.

Chris

[doomzday]

Originally Posted by Chris-

You can try to do a search on the main Google search engine, just putting your domain in quotes, then the results should be every page that has your domain in it anywhere (including your own pages, plus any backlinks indexed by Google). This can sometimes show very different results from any other method, even when Google Webmaster shows nothing, a simple search like that might show lots of backlinks.

Chris

This method showed me almost the same results as SEO Spyglass. How much time does it take for the backlinks to be found?

[dadamson]

Write all your links in a spreadsheet as you create them.

Link checkers never reveal the whole story anyway, so even if all your links exist and are indexed there is no guarantee that you will find every one of them.

Keep a spreadsheet and use this to ping the links later on, or (better), create more backlinks to these backlinks.

~Dave

[Trevor]

Very likely your links haven't been indexed yet. There are many ways you can try to force the search engines to index your links. Here are a few strategies you can implement to index them:

1. Ping the backlinks' URLs. You can do this with a free service like Pingomatic or Pingfarm (which uses Pingomatic to ping in mass).

2. Build backlinks to the backlinks - Not only makes this index your links, you are also naturally strengthening your 1st tier backlinks and therefore strengthening your money sites as well.

3. Here's a little tip I can give: If you are building links on "content" pages (links that come from within text content), you can increase your chances of getting the pages indexed if you don't post a link to your site right away. Make the search engines index the page(s) WITHOUT any links to your site(s) (the indexation rate is higher) and only then put links to the pages.

Hope this helps. Any questions, let me know

- Trev

[Theeban]

As far as you are getting rank, you do not have to worry about it. Usually Google does not show all the backlinks of a site with link:yoursite.com command. I too had faced similar thing, my backlinks were not shown in backlinkwatch.com - they took a month or so to do, but I really did not care about it.

On tip, to check whether your links are indexed, if you search that particular link URL on Google, if it shows you exact URL in search results, that link is indexed by Google. (Example: I searched this post thread, check it here Google)

[doomzday]

Thanks for all the answers, appreciate it. I'd like to ask one more thing, is it possible these days to achieve the #1 spot in Google with a 2 month old domain and the current #1 is about 1.5 years old even with good on-page and off-page SEO?