How long does it take for google to recognize backlinks?

Question

Hi,

I have recently launched a new website. I just want to know how long does it take for Google to recognize backlinks to my site. I am currently generating backlinks by posting on different forums, blog commenting and directory submission. It has been a week now but still there are 0 backlinks to my site according to Google.

Yahoo is relatively quicker than Google in recognizing backlinks. Does anyone have any idea how long does it take for Google to recognize backlinks to my website?

Answer 1

If your backlinks come from good quality (good according to Google) sites then only Google lists them and better quality links take very less time to appear I have seen Google pick up links for my site in less the 4 days. Normally, it will take about 1-2 weeks to get the effect of your backlinks. However, if you can get backlinks from high traffic pages or sites, Google normally used to visit those sites very frequently.



Google doesn't list every backlinks to your website, but yahoo does. That’s why you think yahoo is quicker. But I believe that Google is faster than Yahoo in indexing websites, so happened to me. If you links are listed in Yahoo, sure Google knows about them, but it may not list them. Use Social Bookmarking which all are high quality site according to Google also when you bookmark your website with Social Bookmarking site you will find most of them are authority site also so you will get very quick back link.

Answer 2

It usually does not take long at all. It should only take no less than 24 hours if the backlinks are of good quaility. High page rank backlinks are indexed faster than a website with a low pge rank.

Answer 3

What are you looking at to determin whether Google has indexed your inbound links? The 'site:yourdomain.com' gives a very inaccurate response - this is deliberate. Google engineers would rather not have competitors spying on each others link structure for fear of manipulating the search results.



Google will only disclose what they know via Google Webmaster Tools - you can sign in with a Google account or register here: https://www.google.com/webmasters



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