where are my social bookmarking backlinks?

what you want to do is actually go to your bookmarking accounts and go to your profile URL and ping it with pingler.com

then you want to grab your profile URL RSS feed ping that too and submit it to RSS feed aggregator sites. This will virtually assure you that your links will be indexed by the search engines, so they will start counting for a little link juice.

But bookmarking is more used for indexing then strong backlinks, you want anchor text backlinks with your keyword and variations of your keyword. You want all sorts of different links back so it looks natural such as press releases, articles, web 2.0 blogs, web 2.0 profile links, .gov, .edu and .org links ect...

Also to check for how well someone is optimized in the search engine and what you real competition is type this string into google:

intitle:"YOUR KEYWORD" inurl:"YOUR KEYWORD"

this will show you who really is optimized for that keyword and also show you if your links are indexed yet.

The key to SEO is never stop promoting your sites and all the sites you use to promote your sites with. What I mean is that you want to point backlinks, ping, and submit rss feeds for all your sites.

So in other words promote your backlinks too...

If you have heard somewhere that all you have to do to out rank your competition, is to use a tool like Backlinks Checker Tool - Backlink Watch or market samurai.

This will allow you too see the competitions backlinks and where from, so now all I have to do is get my backlinks from there sites they got them from or that all you need to do is get a few more backlinks than they have.

This is a myth, because the truth is if you want to do SEO right and long term, then you only stop promoting your sites and backlinks when you want to stop making money.

thats just my 2 cents... lol

Your backlinks aren't truly recorded by Yahoo and definitely aren't by Google anyway.

Don't take too much notice of the actaul backlinks figures you get. You'll notice different amounts displayed in different keyword software, so you can never truly know.

Just focus on your link building campaign and monitor your Alexa rank and Google Analytics stats to understand where the traffic is coming from. You're looking for an increase in search traffic over time. If this is happening, your link building campaign is likely to be ahead of the people competing for the same keywords.