Why are good authority links to my site not showing?

[mfrgolfgti]

Hi, about a month ago, I obtained a couple of good authority external links into my client's site.  One of these is from a local government site, ie a .gov.uk website, which has a Domain Authority of 99 according to OSE and a page authority of 67.

However, these links are not showing up in SEOmoz or OSE and the domain authority of my client's site has not changed.  Why do the links not show?  Surely a period of 5 weeks is long enough for these links to be indexed?

[myclicks-163603]

Hi, Are you sure that the authoritative websites that you have placed the links on aren't blocking the SEOmoz crawler? Just check their robots.txt which should be located under authoritativedomainname.com/robots.txt.

[mfrgolfgti]

Hi Ivaylo, thanks for responding.  I just checked the robots.txt and the list of disallowed pages does not included any pages in the section where my client's link is located.

[duoweb]

My guess is that the linkindex from OSE still hasn't been updated, and therefore is not showing your new backlinks.

[mfrgolfgti]

Hi there, that's interesting - do you know how long it usually takes for OSE to be updated?

[myclicks-163603]

Hi Maureen

In that case it seems that duoweb is most probably right about it.

[duoweb]

Normally every four weeks, now it has been a while:

http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape Schedule for the update shedule.

[Cornel_Ilea]

Our website is live for 3 months now and it's still not indexed by he OSE.

So ... patience ... but you should be able to see the link in our Webmaster Tools.

[EvolveCreative]

OSE has been pretty slow for me too. Try looking up your backlinks at www.alexa.com or your webmaster tools.

[mfrgolfgti]

Thanks, it looks like the next update will be next week sometime.  Thanks very much for this Duoweb.

[mfrgolfgti]

Hi Cornel, yes they are on the Webmaster tools so that is helpful at least.  Thanks for responding.

[Dr-Pete]

Unfortunately, we are experiencing a delay, due to an attempt to expand and improve the crawl. I don't have an exact ETA, but this is our TOP priority and we definitely regret the issues people are having.

I would double-check that Google has indexed and re-cached the page with the link on it. It's not instantaneous, in practice. Also make sure the link isn't nofollow'ed, etc.