On average, how long do you think it takes Google, Yahoo et al. to index new inbound links, I built a few links to a page I am trying to index 2 weeks ago and still haven't seen Yahoo MSN or Google pick them up? Any suggestions? Thanks!
Google takes longer to show (2-3 months) ; yahoo and msn shows them directly proportional to their importance...if you have the link coming from an important site you can see it indexed quiclky (few days) .
That's hard to say and is dependent on how frequently the pages that now link to you get indexed. Some pages that are very click deep from the home page are only crawled every few months, so it all depends. How often does the linking page get crawled?
The main link I'm hoping will "pop" my site is from Wikipedia, which links to an article I wrote. So I guess with however many thousands of pages they have it may take a while right?
Depends - look at when the linking page was last cached. If it says 1997, you'd better make yourself a long drink
lol. great idea hooperman!! thanks, never thought of that. Looks like the last cache was the day before I inserted my link. Just need to wait it out then.