How Long Does It Take Google/yahoo to Find Inbound Links?

[BlockO]

I started a linkbuilding campaign about 2 months ago. I noticed that when I used the tool on google toolbar to see backward links, none were there!
google has cached my site more frequently lately, they gave me a page rank, but yet no backward links are shown. yahoo site search does list my inbound links, but only about a third or quarter of them.

does it take that long for google & yahoo to check your inbound links? or do they know they are there but are just not listing them?

 

[Pangaea]

I started a linkbuilding campaign about 2 months ago. I noticed that when I used the tool on google toolbar to see backward links, none were there!
google has cached my site more frequently lately, they gave me a page rank, but yet no backward links are shown. yahoo site search does list my inbound links, but only about a third or quarter of them.

does it take that long for google & yahoo to check your inbound links? or do they know they are there but are just not listing them?

1. Yahoo Site Explorer actually shows Bing data. (I've noticed that Bing catches roughly 10-20% of all my links.
2. Google Webmaster Tools will show you some of the links it's picked up. It's probably a bigger amount than Google.
3. Stop worrying about the amount of links. If you start two months ago with a new site you have bigger things to worry about anyways.
4. If the site you're worrying about is the webs.com site DEFINITELY listen to number 3. Also, get a real site built on a cheap domain name that you own.

 

[RFNAPLES]

I started a linkbuilding campaign about 2 months ago. I noticed that when I used the tool on google toolbar to see backward links, none were there!
google has cached my site more frequently lately, they gave me a page rank, but yet no backward links are shown. yahoo site search does list my inbound links, but only about a third or quarter of them.

does it take that long for google & yahoo to check your inbound links? or do they know they are there but are just not listing them?

You have links in Google and Ask. Try this command in the search windows of same:
links:lylesinsurance.webs.com/

 

[pcwest]

I built my own site after taking classes. Link building is not recommended until you have a content rich site. If your site is a template site, your in for the long haul.

I did not even attempt link building until I had at least 50 pages.

Good Luck!

 

[OKAdvisor]

Hi Dan!

It really just depends on how often the websites that contain the link pointing to your site are crawled by Google. Some are picked up in a matter of days others take a few months to show up. Just about every link you build will eventually show up as long as its on a site that has been included in Google index. You can find out if a site is indexed by type site:URLOFSITE into the search box.

If you are using google's seo toolbar, do yourself a favor and uninstall it. It will not ever display your PR correctly nor will it ever tell you how many links you have to your site. Yahoo is the best indicator of links to your site and you can use sites like majesticseo.com which will show you your approximate link count. You can also use tools like seo-spyglass. I tried to post a link to it here but I can put links in posts yet. Just google it and it will come up. Any tool or site that you use will always be an approximation of your links. But using MajesticSEO.com and spyglass will give you a very good indication of where you are at.

All of these guys that are telling you that you should wait to link build are full of it. As soon as you are included into the index go wild. But make sure the links are relevant. Links from woodworking sites wont help you much in the insurance industry. Google also has a relevant vs non relevant check built into their algorithm. If you have to many links that are not relevant you will be penalized for a period of time. Usually this only happens with new sites but I have seen it happen to large mature sites also. People will also tell you that you can build links to fast and spam you website. That is true to a point but unless you are building links full time you will never reach the spam limit. Now if you are buying links (which is worthless in the end) you may reach your spam limit. But as long as you are manually, ethically, building links, keep building them as fast as you can.

Since your site is only 2 months or so you will expeience large fluctuations in your rankings also. One day you might be on the second page the next you may not be listed at all. This is what we link to call the Google dance. It should only last a few months though and sometimes it wont happen at all. Depends on about a million different factors.

Site size doesn't matter at all when building links. Is it easier to get a site with 10+ pages ranked? Yes, but there is no rule of how many pages you have to have to be ranked. I currently have a site that has two pages and is ranked 5th for a keyword with competition of over a million.

Also someone mention that if you use a template it is harder to rank. Once again extremely incorrect. A template is just like any other site. There is nothing that makes a template any different. Its all just lines of code. If someone else is using that template it doesn't matter in terms of seo one bit.

Hope all this helps, let me know if you have any more questions and I will do my best to help you out!

Thanks,

Darren

 

[kelly1]

you can speed up the linking process using the ping-o-matic or similar type service.

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

So many pinging services. Any opinions on which is the best? I think I use Pingler or something like that. Not sure how good it is.

Possibly, but I highly doubt that PSU's hockey program will take off for at least another five years.

 

[kelly1]

Ping farm allows you to upload a list of your backlinks for pinging. Most of the ping services make you do it one by one. . . so you can probably save a lot of time this way.

 

[YouGotMyMoney]

So many pinging services. Any opinions on which is the best? I think I use Pingler or something like that. Not sure how good it is.

to get a backlink indexed or crawled it takes more than just pinging.

I know you know this Chumps, just talking out loud.

 

[kelly1]

to get a backlink indexed or crawled it takes more than just pinging.

I agree, best sending less then desirable backlinks (guestbooks, etc, heavily spamed pages, etc) to your better backlinks you can get the teir 1 backlinks indexed in hours