You can't know for sure but you will see a deep crawl before the snapshot so Google sees the links, so I've read.
Can you explain with a little more detail. What do you mean deep crawl and will you know that google has done a deep crawl?
During the deep crawl Gbot (googlebot) crawls your site. By deep crawl they mean it goes deep to get all of the pages.
hmmmm whether thats what happens is unkwown to me but i can tell ya that if and when you get your PR boost and especially in directories.. you should check the details pages of sites and back track till you find the PR that was found on last site submitted, then you will get your date that the snapshot occured. If im correct its 20-30 days before the tool bar updates. thx malcolm