Do backlinks take effect as soon as they are crawled?

[lethal0r]

i have got 3 really good backlinks to a site of mine in the last month, however they have had no obvious effect yet.

they are dofollow, all from county council websites, and I can see the backlinks in webmaster tools.

does this mean that their seo affect has already been applied?

[XNUMERIK]

You never really know when a link's effect has been applied, you don't even know if it has been applied.

In fact, a link's effect can be "your rankings were maintened (no change) thanks to that link that helped keep up with your competitors' linkbuilding strategies"

The website giving you the link could also evolve prositively (or negatively) and you won't see an effect until many months later.

[Raw10Productions]

There are links that i built that showed me results the same week and others that I still don't know what happened with them  months later

[XNUMERIK]

That's a very common pattern in the SEO area

Just keep building quality links knowing that a portion of them will probably never be of any use, but you cannot guess proactively which ones!

[lethal0r]

have you seen quick results recently? i.e. notable improvements in just a week or two. especially since the panda / emd / penguin updates?

[XNUMERIK]

YES, we have a methodology that yields results both on the short and long terms.

Nothing has really changed for us since those updates as we already had very cautious linkbuilding strategies done 100% manually, the hard way!