Please Help. My backlinks aren't showing up

Have you pinged them ? Linklicious is a good option.

Did you actually check to see if your comments were approved?

Also, what are you using to check backlinks?

It depends what tool you're using to try and see them, many won't pick them up for a month or more.

Also, it sounds like you've been building links very aggressively, which is not a good approach unless you're an expert.

I use backlink watch to check my backlinks. It only shows 195 for the electric heaters site in my signature. However, like its in my sig and I have over 500 posts in here, so I just don't see how that's right. and no I don't ping my own backlinks. Is that really important? How would I go about pinging a bunch of backlinks all at once for free?

Well I have heard that comments from any software usually does not longer for a long time.Manual is always best.

However building any backlink require sometime to get indexed by Google.You can rapid this process by pining them or by creating a rss feed.

Give it time.

Links can take weeks to appear, remember than Google hides the vast majority of backlinks and will never display them. Up until recently Yahoo site explorer was the best place to check for links, but this showed only links that Yahoo had found (which did no where near as good a job of finding them as Google).

google Majestic SEO and try our their free option to check links for your site. I have no affiliation with them at all but market samurai uses them (or did when I last checked) to check results, and they have a database of millions of results.

You might not have much luck if yours is only a new site as the way Majestic SEO works is they actually record all backlinks they find (rather than querying Google or other search engines).

Have you considered spending more time with the content on your site and the user experience? It's becoming increasingly clear to me that in 2012 it's more about these factors than a pile of links.

Also are your links from sites relevant to your site, if not I have doubts they will be of much value to you.

The fact that your looking to have "thousands" of backlinks indicates you may be taking a "give me links from any site" approach.

Not something I would recommend. I would personally try and get links from the authority sites in your niche, guest posts, or blog comments (as you are doing now), or other means links that but manually.

Hope this helps.

cheers


Tim

Good advice. I, too, would focus on basic things like social bookmarking, content syndication and using images and videos to augment your content. You syndicate blog posts with video and images, you can use a service, software, or do it for free with a pixelpipe or ping.fm account. Takes some time to set up, but you could see great results.

First its important for you to know that Backlink checking tools do not represent what Google knows. A guy for example had 90,000 backlinks in a back link checker, and then another day he had 2,000. Those backlinks didn't disappear, the backlink checker just didn't have them in its database. (Not enough bandwidth and had to get rid of some, etc)

You gotta realize that Google itself doesn't crawl the entire web and these backlink checker tools aren't even close, to being close, to what Google can do. They have to crawl what they can, not to mention re-crawl what they already know about and with limited bandwidth...do you think they can find everything everywhere consistently? Especially in a timely fashion? No way, those things are not accurate measuring tools.

If you want to track something, track your SERPS.

Does someone knows the frequency of Google's Webmaster tool to update the backlinks for a domain?

I would suggest you to use any out of top backlink indexers out there.

Time is the best thing you can do for backlinks.

It may take months for your backlinks to actually get crawled. I would not personal ping my backlinks or try to get them to crawl them faster...simply because this is NOT natural.

Ever since I read not to ping my backlinks...I never do. (personal opinion of course)

But yea don't worry so much about how many are showing up and focus on the important things that matter like content and site creation and conversions, where you actually ranking etc.

-Omar

There is no reliable timetable. Don't sweat it just keep building links

First up, you will never see all your backlinks to your site. Google just doesn't show everything.

What it could mean though is that a lot of your backlinks are not getting indexed (or found) by Google. This means they won't show up and that they don't count.
You can either bookmark them with social sites, or ping them to try to get them indexed.
If you focus on high PR links then those tend to get crawled and indexed by Google a lot quicker. That's what I do and it seems to work pretty well.