When do backlinks start helping?

[dealblogger]

I have been working hard at getting quality backlinks but I had a lot of keywords slip in rankings this week. This may because I have been extremely busy for a week and haven't added a lot of content to my site. But I thought the backlinks would be helping. How long does it take backlinks to start boosting your site and what results should I see? I am focusing on getting backlinks from a site with a PR of 7. The others have a PR of 4-5. They are the BEST sites in my niche.

[mblsolutions]

Hi

I have read that it takes between 1 - 2 months for you to start seeing a change and 2 -3 months before you start seeing a really significant change to your website.

Hope that helps

[PaddyDisplays]

google has to see the backlink first, so you can check if the page that the backlink is on has been crawled yet by checking if it has been cached by google or has been cached since the link has been added.

[KarlBantleman]

The reason for the slip could be the unconfirmed update from Google. As nothing has been confirmed its difficult to say but there has been a lot of talk on Webmaster forums that rankings have dropped for many websites.

Coming back to your question, there is no set time on how long it will take and as Paddy Displays said, it depends on how often Google visits the website with the link on. If, as you say, the websites are high quality then it should be soon.

[dealblogger]

Do you have a source to share?

[dealblogger]

Oh interesting....thanks!

[dealblogger]

I do see the links in a google search.