In the past two weeks I have a added about 100 manual quality backlinks to each of my 7 websites and none of them have showed up yet. Also to make things worse Im losing backlinks at breakneck speed. Anybody else losing backlinks?
Search engines don't show all backlinks. Even though they take them into account they don't show all of them. So rather than concentrating on the number of backlinks I recommend to look closely at the SEO impact of the new links.
You can use Yahoo! to make sure your links are being found correctly, just use the below search operator code in Yahoo! to do this. Google provides a list of found links via Google Webmasters Central which the crawler has located and credited to the site. This data via Google seems to update every week or so, and isn't real time. Rest sure your links are being located by Google, 2 weeks is nothing in terms of long-time SEO. linkdomain:Http://www.yoursitehere.com Code (markup):
Yahoo is much more accurate regarding the number of backlinks. However, they also don't show 100% of backlinks.
Funny, seems pretty accurate to me; unless you're building garbage backlinks that rarely stay indexed. A backlink will disappear if that web page is de-indexed.
OK, let me mention one example. You submit an article to EzineArticles which is recognized as top quality article directory. Some people publish the article on their websites. Since there is duplicate content, yahoo most probably will not show links from all of these websites. But most probably it takes these links into account (try to submit one article to many websites and you will see the positive SEO results). So it is the reason that I believe yahoo doesn't show 100% of links which they use to rank websites. However, as I said, it is much more accurate than google.
Actually, I do see those re-published article backlinks every so often; but this is usually in the beginning of my backlink building plan and when you start getting to 1,000+ backlinks its kind of boring to sort through them all.
Guys thanks for your input much appreciated. I understand the current updates might take a while. What Im not getting iS the links I have had seem to be dropping quickly. I have one website that is almost two years old and only had about 350 backlinks. In the last two weeks the total has dropped by 25% ...... and these are only manual good backlinks. Where are they going?
For the most part they are built posting on blogs and i only psot on PR3 or better. Thats about it, and like I said its maybe 2 or 3 links a week I add as the site only had 350 backlinks.
So the reason my be simple -- many weblogs become nofollow when too many people start to spam them. I just did a few blog comments. I have used one year old list of dofollow blogs. When I come back now to these blogs, at least 50% of them are nofollow and many of them also disappeared. So I think this may be the reason why you see your backlinks disappearing. However, many of them will stay for many years. It is only a number game. You need to build x links and x/y (where y may be about 2 - 4) will stay for a long time.
NoFollow doesn't prevent a backlink; it prevents the Pagerank value of the backlink from being passed on. You still receive keyword value and it's considered a backlink. You can verify this by viewing nofollow backlinks inside of Google Webmasters Central external links list. The main reason is probably those old blog posts are getting buried over time, and most likely being de-indexed from the search engine index. This is very common with old blog posts with little to no backlinks to the post itself. You should try doing proper article writing and submitting. Consider writing unique articles and posting them on some of the top article directories. Make sure write "unique" articles and only post them to "one" directory. Want to submit another, then write another! Make sure to also link to multiple web pages and not just your homepage; do one to the homepage in the article and another to an inner web page.