Hi Guys, I've been engaged in link building process on a site for almost 7 days and so far I'm focusing on Blog commenting, Social Bookmarking, Directory Submissions but my problem is, Google Webmaster Tool only showing 3 sites(domains) in "Links to your site" section which were already there before I started my work... So just confused, curious and doubtful why other domains are not showing there?? I mean in blog commenting I'm getting instant approval so at least blog sites should show up there, I'm also using pinging service to ping my comments and bookmarks so they instantly crawled by Google bots... So what's the problem in my case? My site is "www.designscreations.com"
It takes a long time to start seeing backlinks in Google Webmaster tools... like sometimes a month so be patient. A great way to see if the link actually counts is to inspect it in Google Chrome or Safari and make sure that there is not a rel="nofollow" on the link. Many sites and directories offer free backlinks but when you actually get your link in, it is a nofollow link that Google won't go to.
It takes time to get your links crawled and the other thing is nofollow which is mentioned by Nova706.
How fast it can showing those backlink, it is depend on which site you participate. If you participate those well reputation site with do follow link, it will index much more faster than non popular site.