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How can you tell if a backlink has been indexed?

by hannahcarol
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Hi guys, newbie question here! I've been building backlinks and I know they are useless unless google indexes them - is there a non-scrapebox related way to know if google has found and indexed the backlinks? Thanks in advance!
#backlink #indexed
  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    Enter the URL into the search box. It should be the first result.

    There's sections who believe that you get more credit if the page is indexed PLUS cached. And then there's others who believe you still get credit for the link even if it's crawled but not indexed.
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    • Profile picture of the author hannahcarol
      Originally Posted by retsek View Post

      Enter the URL into the search box. It should be the first result.

      There's sections who believe that you get more credit if the page is indexed PLUS cached. And then there's others who believe you still get credit for the link even if it's crawled but not indexed.
      The URL as in the URL where you placed the backlink? What if it was already indexed before you placed the backlink - is there a way to tell if it's been crawled again since your backlink was placed?
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  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    Yes it's the URL where your backlinks resides.

    If it's already indexed, then you really shouldn't be worry about it. Google will eventually crawl the page again. If you insist, then you can simply check the Cached Results for that URL. If you see your url in the cached copy, then you're indexed+cached.
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  • Profile picture of the author hannahcarol
    awesome! exactly what I needed to know. Thanks so much
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