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Web 2.0 backlinks not showing up.

by Danny Henley
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First post here, hope it is getting to the right place.

I have been creating backlinks to a company website using free Web2.0 properties, such as wordpress.com, Weebly, blogger.com, etc. I have been publishing quality content in posts of 400-700 words, with a maximum of 2 outbound links. This has been going on for 2-3 months now, and I have yet to see any of the links scored in various link tracking software, such as SEMRush, Moz, SpyFu, etc.
Seems to me that enough time has elapsed to start seeing at least one or two getting counted. I have Google+'d, Facebooked, and Tweeted the posts. Is the method dead? I had planned on raising the PA of these high DA sites by using lesser free sites to link to them. All my posts are topic-focused and informative, not at all spammy.
Should I start using a pinging service? Can't believe at least a few of the posts haven't been crawled by now.

Open to suggestions!
#backlinks #showing #web
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  • Profile picture of the author Shaun Marrs
    Its much harder to rank web 2.0s in the top 100 these days, a few years back it was pretty easy, even with low quality autogenerated content on them.

    Are you posts indexed in Google?
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  • Profile picture of the author expmrb
    I think you are miscalculating something here. Each post if have two outbound links to your main site than its totally wrong. Google will see it as if you are trying to manipulate the SERP's. Each site should give back one single link to you main site.
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    • Profile picture of the author dmorganhenley
      I don't have two links back to my main site. Some of my posts have one link, some two, but the ones with two links never point to the same address. I usually link once to an authority site and once to either my main site or an upper-tier site .
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by Danny Henley View Post

    First post here, hope it is getting to the right place.

    I have been creating backlinks to a company website using free Web2.0 properties, such as wordpress.com, Weebly, blogger.com, etc. I have been publishing quality content in posts of 400-700 words, with a maximum of 2 outbound links. This has been going on for 2-3 months now, and I have yet to see any of the links scored in various link tracking software, such as SEMRush, Moz, SpyFu, etc.
    Seems to me that enough time has elapsed to start seeing at least one or two getting counted. I have Google+'d, Facebooked, and Tweeted the posts. Is the method dead? I had planned on raising the PA of these high DA sites by using lesser free sites to link to them. All my posts are topic-focused and informative, not at all spammy.
    Should I start using a pinging service? Can't believe at least a few of the posts haven't been crawled by now.

    Open to suggestions!
    It makes zero difference if SEMRush, Moz, etc. have crawled them or not. All that matters is if search engines have found them.

    DA does not matter for web 2.0 pages. None of the sites created on a web 2.0 site are ever going to be linked to from the home page, so the strength of the domain is meaningless. Web 2.0 pages are so weak, that services like Moz and SEMRush might never crawl a brand new one if it doesn't build up some authority on its own.
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    • Profile picture of the author dmorganhenley
      How could DA not matter? You say, "None of the sites created on web 2.0 site are ever going to be linked to from the home page, so the strength of the domain is meaningless." Huh? Meaningless to whom? DA is DA.
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by dmorganhenley View Post

        How could DA not matter? You say, "None of the sites created on web 2.0 site are ever going to be linked to from the home page, so the strength of the domain is meaningless." Huh? Meaningless to whom? DA is DA.
        Meaningless to search engines.

        First, DA is not a ranking factor used by any search engine on the planet. It is a metric created by Moz based on their own link database, which is extremely lacking.

        Second, it is Domain Authority. It has nothing to do with the page you create your blog on. Authority passes through links, and there is no link path from the home page of a site like Wordpress.com to any blog you create. Your blogs on Wordpress, Tumblr, etc. get no benefit from the home page.

        If you think that getting a link from Tumblr is a strong link because Tumblr.com has a high DA, you are sorely mistaken.
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        • Profile picture of the author dmorganhenley
          Mike I completely agree that DA is not a ranking factor. Also, I know that DA is not a creation of Google, it is just a metric. I think my original question was lost in the noise. I was wondering why the backlinks are not showing up. I can see some very low-quality backlinks to the website I am working on, surely a link from a Tumblr blog would be worth more than those, if the content is relevant and high value. The posts I have made on Web 2.0 sites have been indexed. Shouldn't the link to the company website from an indexed web 2.0 page be seen in backlink checker tools?
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          • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
            Originally Posted by dmorganhenley View Post

            Shouldn't the link to the company website from an indexed web 2.0 page be seen in backlink checker tools?
            No, not really. Backlink checkers like Moz, Majestic, SEMRush, etc. have nowhere near the resources to crawl and index the internet that Google has. Most backlink checkers probably find about 25% or less of the links that Google finds.

            Knowing that they have limited resources, if I owned one of those companies, I would put a very low priority on crawling something like Tumblr. It's mostly just junk.
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          • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
            Originally Posted by dmorganhenley View Post

            Mike I completely agree that DA is not a ranking factor. Also, I know that DA is not a creation of Google, it is just a metric. I think my original question was lost in the noise. I was wondering why the backlinks are not showing up. I can see some very low-quality backlinks to the website I am working on, surely a link from a Tumblr blog would be worth more than those, if the content is relevant and high value. The posts I have made on Web 2.0 sites have been indexed. Shouldn't the link to the company website from an indexed web 2.0 page be seen in backlink checker tools?

            On a side note, why do you have 2 accounts?
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            • Profile picture of the author dmorganhenley
              I had forgotten that I had an old account, signed up for a new one, I guess. How do I delete the new one?
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