How soon should new links show up?

[AshShep1]

Hi I know that GWT's will not show all my links but is there a 3rd party (other than Moz of course!) tool that will?

And how quickly should they show up?

Thanks

Ash

[Andy-Halliday]

This all depends when the page with the link on it gets crawled and by who.

Would recommend using Google Alerts, these are a good way of spotting new mentions / links to your site.

Would also recommend watching White board friday from two weeks ago about using Email alerts for SEO http://moz.com/blog/8-ways-to-use-email-alerts-to-boost-seo-whiteboard-friday

But it does all depend on when the Page is crawled.

[AshShep1]

Thanks Andy, Would you expect pages to have been crawled that were linked 4 to 8 weeks ago or is that still in the hands of the spiders?

Ash

[StickyWebz]

4 to 8 weeks seems like ample time to me. Maybe I'm misreading the situation, but doesn't opensiteexplorer's recently discovered links show pages within 24 hours?

[AshShep1]

Well i checked this and nothing i showing and yet i created a link about 4 weeks ago - perhaps it needs a little longer!

[Andy-Halliday]

The recently discovered is just that, recently discovered by Moz, its nothing to do with the date the article / link was published.

I use three bits of software, Talkwalker, Opensite explorer and Google Alerts. And if I am honest the only one I care about is Google Alerts as its Google rankings I monitor so the sooner google pick up the link the better.

In terms of time length, I am still getting alerts for links posted years ago on poor links, but get alerts within the day for links of places like Virgin.com so it all depends on when the crawler manages to crawl the page.

Have you checked the page with the link on is crawable. Can the bots find the page. If they can't find the page, it will never get indexed and you will never benefit from the link. So if its been 4 weeks check to see if the page has been indexed / can it be indexed.

If you send me the link I will do some analysis for you.

[AshShep1]

Hi Andy all pages indexed, i have set up a new alert for this one, so will be interesting to see when it pops up!

Thanks for the advice

Ash