Why Aren't My Backlinks Being Tracked And Counted...Anyone Got Any Ideas?

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So I went and looked to see how many backlinks my site has using dnScoop - Domain Name Value, History, Stats Tool and Forums and a couple of other tools such as SEOQuake and they all say the same thing. They all say that I only have 2 backlinks when I should have somewhere around 20 probably. I mean I wrote 6 articles that are live in ezinearticles right now and they all link to my site, but for some reason these tools aren't tracking the other 4 plus the back links I've left on some other blogs.

Does anyone have any idea why that is and what I can do about it? I mean I've been putting in some time trying to build these backlinks but it doesn't even look like they're being counted.

Please help...
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  • Links show up when they show up. Don't worry about it. Just build more links to your site and links to pages that link to your site.
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  • Hi Chris,

    Two things, first, if the backlinks are for seo results, they're not nearly as important as most people think. Focus on the on-site seo for better results. Second, if they're for direct traffic (like after people read your articles) then they'll still work even if they're not listed right now and will get listed... eventually.

    ~Mike Cowles. <><
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    • Hey Mike,
      Not wanting to call anyone out here but youre statement is absolutely false. 80% of youre sites SEO Power is on youre backlinks. I have a site that has absolutely "NO" On site SEO but thousands of high quality backlinks that is ranked on the first page for 40+ Short string keywords like barter websites and we are ranked on the first spot. The URL has only been indexed for two weeks and was ranked the day after it got indexed on over 20+ Keywords. On site SEO is important for showing up in more search results pages but by far backlinks are absolutely the most important aspect of youre SEO strategy. We took football fanatics from 6M to 128 M with our SEO Strategy in just two years and also built sports.yahoo.com for Yahoo so were pretty good at what we do. Not trying to call you out but simply wanting to offer my opinion and experience. Thanks
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  • From my experience, backlinks are REALLY important, but it does take some time for search engines to digest them. Just keep building them and plan on a 3 - 6 month time frame to really get results. Put your keywords in the anchor text and over time they will start to pay off. If your site is optimized well, you should start to see natural search results depending on how much competition there is for the keyword phrases you are targeting.
  • Remember the page on which your article appears has to be indexed as well....it is a new page....so depending on the site, it could take some time......

    but it will come
  • keep doing the best you know how ... the payoff will eventually come
  • In some cases it could take about one month to be indexed in search engine.
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    • Good advice. Although I seem to remember reading it somewhere before........ ah, that's it, in the same thread. Interesting way to get your post count up.


      As far as the OP is concerned, I was in a similar position and expected to see my links within days, but I'm learning to be more patient. I can see the link on the site where I put it, so it's just a matter of time before it gets picked up.
  • Links do take a while to show up, but I've noticed that using a submission service rather than promoting my articles by hand can make a huge difference. I blogged on one example here: - much faster and much more widespread distribution with this service.
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  • I'm having the same problem. I have submitted 1000's of articles using an article submission software. Its been 3 months and none of them are being indexed. Could this be because these article directories have a low page rank? It's baffling me. Am I not building my link correctly? My site does already show up on the first page of Google for the main search terms, hiv dating and positive singles, however, I'm number 6 and number 4 respectively. I'm trying to get to the #1 spot. My site has been around for 6 years - I think it should be easy to get to number 1 from #6 - but it hasn't been yet. Someone recommended pinging all the sites so I downloaded ping machine and am trying that. I think I'm also going to try link juicer. Any ideas?
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    • Gosh after 6 years, you should have thousands of links by now. One of my site has over 1k links now and i just started promoting it a couple of months back. I'm still figuring out how I got that many links since my other sites have less links and I have been doing the same process. I am using Social Bot (I submit each page every day) and Next Gen Links (still figuring out if this is helping). I did ping my sites and use onlwire, but started to get lazy about doing it everyday. I also havee an RSS submitter software, but need to be better about submitting my RSS feeds.
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  • I'm not knocking you, but dont think 6 articles is doing a lot, its a start, along with blog commenting, forum posts in your niche with your sig answer 3-4 questions a day on different forums you'll start to see links come in, ping as many of your links as you can, go to fivver get your 6 articles made into video's $30 bucks what a steal. submit them to video dirs and keep going you will see results.
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    • Most of them are either low-value links that no one wants to count, OR the search engines are not finding the links...
  • I am getting a bit frustrated with my article marketing efforts as well. I posted unique articles to four different sites: articlesbase, goarticles, hubpages, and squidoo, and a week later the links haven't been picked up.
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    • Well, then try some different directories. Some directories are harder to get indexed than others. Goarticles and squidoo I know from experience are hard to get indexed. Throw some infobarrel links and ezine article links at them and see if that gets them indexed. People who run their own wordpress article directories tend to get indexed quickly too as well.
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  • - Give the tools more time to pull up your backlinks. I've seen that it usually takes a couple weeks after I hit 1st page ranking for these tools to report most of my backlinks

    - Notice how I said "most." No tool will ever find and report all your backlinks. SEO Spyglass does do the best job IMHO.

    Good luck
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    Why Aren't My Backlinks Being Tracked And Counted...Anyone Got Any Ideas?

    So I went and looked to see how many backlinks my site has using dnScoop - Domain Name Value, History, Stats Tool and Forums and a couple of other tools such as SEOQuake and they all say the same thing. They all say that I only have 2 backlinks when I should have somewhere around 20 probably. I mean I wrote 6 articles that are live in ezinearticles right now and they all link to my site, but for some reason these tools aren't tracking the other 4 plus the back links I've left on some other blogs. Does anyone have any idea why that is and what I can do about it? I mean I've been putting in some time trying to build these backlinks but it doesn't even look like they're being counted.