I've been editing and resubmitting articles to various article directories with links back to my original Ezine articles for months now. I just checked a few articles which I did this process for maybe 5 months ago and know for a fact that I have the backlinks to that article from at least 5 article directories, I just checked the edited articles myself to make sure their links were working and they all are, yet when I use SEO spyglass or some other website which shows banklinks I get a goose egg, not a single backlink showing. I'd say maybe google or whoever hasn't picked up on them yet, but this was 5 months ago. I'm obviously doing this to better the ranking for those articles and those obscure keywords I'm targeting, but that's never going to happen without those backlinks. What's the deal here? Am I just wasting my time?
You cant see backlinks unless you own the site and have it in Google Webmaster Tools. Backlinks to ezine articles shown by goole link: command are crap anyway, those results are totally inaccurate. For example, one of my site has link:xxxxx 3 results, i see 1250 backlinks in Webmaster Tools.
So physically going to the other article directories and specifically the articles I've backlinked to the original article from and seeing that link connects to the original article... I should be content knowing that the link is working so I'm getting juice from it, just not visible results from tools?
That's odd, it only showed one of the article directories I resubmitted to linking to it when I tested an old article like one I resubmitted links to 4 months ago. Why wouldn't the other directories be showing up? They're all dofollow, I just don't want to keep adding knowing I'm not creating any more linkjuice.
check them on yahoo site explorer. but the best way is to social bookmark your articles to be sure they are indexed
Try pinging your articles - it sometimes help. To check if they're indexed either type url into google or copy first line or so into google with quotes round it - this second option sometimes shows up indexed pages that a simple url doesn't.