Newbie Q: How soon should i see backlink from guest post

[gungam]

I recently got featured in couple of blog posts and there were back-links to my site. How soon should i expect to see these in Moz Open Explorer and also in Google Search Console?

If i don't see these links, is there something I need to do?

Thanks

[DmitriiK]

Hi there.

You should see link in Open Site Explorer after next recrawl, which is scheduled on Feb 28 - https://moz.com/products/api/updates

If your blog posts were created very recently or on small DA websites, then it might take till next recrawl.

As for Google Search Console - it's usually detected pretty quick. Maybe couple weeks. But, sometimes for unknown reasons it can take way longer than that - up to several months, but it's unlikely.

Hope this helps.

[gungam]

Thanks Dmitrii. This answers.

So my other part of the question-  if I don't see the back link say in 1-2 cycles. Is there something I can or should do? Like talk to blogger who featured my site and ask to change things?

[DmitriiK]

Well, if you can improve the quality of backlink somehow - move it to higher DA domain or higher PA page, then sure - go ahead. Just make sure that your efforts would be worth it, cause if you gonna spend 4 hours on it to increase DA by 1, there is no point in it. It'd better to get another link.

[gungam]

Thanks man.

[DmitriiK]

Sure, no problem