Why are good authority links to my site not showing?

[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.