There are MANY factors that can affect how long it will take to index a random page. It depends how fresh their content is, how popular the website is, and many other difficult to measure factors. Don't worry about waiting for that link ... focus on new efforts while you let it happen.

I actually got in a debate with a so called "SEO Expert" about this today.

He was claiming it can take as long as 30 days to be indexed, and another 30 days to full affect SEO.

I showed him examples of my links that had gone into effect in less than 24 hours.

So really, it depends on the quality of your links and how much the spiders are crawling your links.

what do you mean quality of links? Would not a link on digg be the same as say reddit? It also seems that yahoo indexs faster than google ofcourse i could be wrong.

If you post a link on a site that hasn't been updated in 5 years, and gets very little traffic, than it will take a long time to get indexed.

On the other hand, if you managed to get a link on the front page of CNN somehow, it would get indexed near immediately.

Make sense?

Digg would probably be a bit more popular than reddit, but thats my opinion. Of course front page of digg would be even better yet.

Nobody but google itself can really answer that question.. Anyone that says they have the answer is not telling the truth.

You can ping it yes, that only "notifies" the search engines but it does not mean they will index the backlink. There is no promise that any search engine will index any backlink at all ...

James

Maybe Google is doing a slow down on all the backlinks due to spammers

it can take literally one sec. and up

If you are artificially creating links to your site then you can add yourself to the list.

Hey kids... just remember, if you are using google webmaster tools... they never show all of your links.

If you have 3,000 backlinks they might only show 1,000 of them.

How long does it take for google to index a backlink... how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop? Nobody can give a clear answer because nobody knows.

All you can do is make an effort to ensure that google finds your backlinks... from there it's out of your hands.

Here is what I do.

After I make sure the link is valid and working, I use ping.fm which broadcasts out to 20 (up to 30) social bookmarking sites at once, and hopefully that will encourage the spiders to come and take a look at the nice new link.

Maybe it works, maybe not, but certainly dose not seem to hurt anything.

Way too much work to get a page index bro! Theres other reasons Im sure your going to all that effort ... but there's stuff going on on autopilot thats getting pages "cached" in googles index in under a minute.

If your doing all that to just get a new site page found by google - brother stop killing yourself!

Searchology has the right plan. I dont believe for 1 seconds you need a PR4+ page to get the job done - but web 2.0 sites with consistantly fresh new content [ scraped andautomated works fine ] filled with 1-2-3 of your profile backlinks gets into googles cache FAST .. and if done right - the links on those pages get spidered and lead to your profile or other backlink page urls and those pages get spidered.

The right setup - content - automation and about 15 days to get it in the groove ... then you can have stuff gobbled up an in the index likkity split.

You can actually have your backlinks indexed within an hour easy and sometimes faster if done with google friendly article-press release-blog-video sites.

The key is to speed up the process.

If your doing onsite codings for seo purposes then that can take a while but there is a few ways to speed it up.

But just focus on seo friendly google friendly sites and ping along with couple of other white hat friendly and correctly techniques and you can be indexed and on top rankings within an hour guaranteed.

As far as I know, Google updates it algorithm everyday but they don't show it immediately. And when the time comes Google updates the result of your inbound links, they don't show all... just partial of your inbound links.

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i have seen a lot of times where my banklinks get indexed by yahoo in a single day.So,just imagine how fast the much-more-powerful google bots will index a link.But needless to say,it is not easy to know whether all your backlinks got indexed or not by doing a link: search on google.So,just see if yahoo has indexed it.

I guess that every spammer knows that Ezine Articles and Digg are good sources to do their black job I heard that about week ago Google updated all the pages and that is why a lot of PR changed. I also heard that in 3 month time Google plan to update their formula and that we gonna see big changes...a little bit scary...

It all comes down to how google sees your links, are they created on existing pages with links already, if you're creating new webpages then your indexing rate can be anywhere from 40-80% if your pinging/backlinking them.

Only Google knows the time frame to index a backlink. And it depends on several factors.

Keep on building links and that will pay you back soon. Building lot of links will not hurt your site in anyway...

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It really does depend and I agree with a lot of what other people in here are saying. If you have a low quality site with a low PR then yes, Google won't be crawling it often so it can take a while to get the backlinks indexed. However, if you have a high PR site like a blog that's heavily trafficked then it can take 1 minute to get indexed... some of my articles go position #1 to #5 within just a couple of minutes of posting the article.

You can kind of speed up this process by pinging Google with software like linklicious.me. Basically, pinging Google tells it to go and spider that URL.... and did you know that Google does not crawl 95% of low level PR sites... so if you're having backlinks created on a site like fiverr.com then it's important that you ping those links to Google .

Hope this helps.

Best,
Randi

If your backlinks come from good quality (good according to Google) sites then only Google lists them and better quality links take very less time to appear I have seen Google pick up links for my site in less the 4 days. Normally, it will take about 1-2 weeks to get the effect of your backlinks. However, if you can get backlinks from high traffic pages or sites, Google normally used to visit those sites very frequently.

Google doesn't list every backlinks to your website, but yahoo does. That’s why you think yahoo is quicker. But I believe that Google is faster than Yahoo in indexing websites, so happened to me. If you links are listed in Yahoo, sure Google knows about them, but it may not list them. Use Social Bookmarking which all are high quality site according to Google also when you bookmark your website with Social Bookmarking site you will find most of them are authority site also so you will get very quick back link.

just blast it with scrapebox or xrumer.

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