How long it takes to see backlink ?

[Rubix]

We are promoting  a law related website and I have posted a blog as a guest on a Law related blog which has PR 3 and Alexa Ranking 171..

It's been 3 weeks but when i run a backlink report from OpenExplorer or other tools that i use, i cannot see the link coming through at all. There is no no follow attached.

I'd like to continue to post more articles on the same website but i need to make sure i am getting good links from it otherwise i will go somewhere else. However, i need to understand why do i not get links from that blog as it is very reputable and good blog.

I appreciate if you can advise please?

Thanks!

[KarlBantleman]

Hi Sida,

take the URL of the post and open Google and type cache:URL you will then see if Google has cached the post and link.

Don't forget, if you keep posting to the same website the benefit will be minimal in terms of SEO because it is going to be from the same IP. However, if you are writing informational posts that will be useful for the readers then that's ok.

[jesse-landry]

Also don't forget that these tools aren't perfect; they won't always show every single last link. For example, I have a followed link from SEOmoz here that I have yet to see show up on my OSE link profile. (been about 3-4 weeks.)

Point being, if you see the link on the site and can confirm it's followed - rest assured it's passing you juice no matter what spiders recognize.

[Rubix]

Thank you