Why aren't links to my site from YouTube showing up in my link reports?

[jtroia]

Our company is paying for a service to create hundreds of videos/month for us with links back to our primary domain.

If I go to YouTube I see the videos with the links, but YouTube does not show in my link reports.  Why not?

[KeriMorgret]

Hi Marc,

OpenSiteExplorer does not crawl every link available, as we just don't have a server farm big enough. Google likely sees these links, but they just haven't hit our radar yet because they may be new or not have many links to them.

[SchoolHealth50]

You can pull that information from Google Webmaster tools.  Go to the Traffic tab and then click on Links to Your Site.  If Google has seen and crawled those links, you will be able to find youtube.com listed. Click on that and it will show you all the urls that your Youtube links are pointing to and how many you have.

[NakulGoyal]

You might also want to make sure those / any links are cached in Google by doing a cache:siteurl.com to see if the Google cache of that page has your link in it. As long as it shows up there, it will show up in these links reports overtime.

Also, I would like to take the opportunity and suggest not to "over-do" any one kinds of links.