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If the blogger's sites are new/small/not well linked to themselves, it may take some time the mozbot to discover the links to your site. You should also consider the last time OSE was updated (Feb 12th 2013) and run another check the next time it's updated, looks like next update is set for March 12, see: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule

Hi, Depending on the nature of the blog and size of your site, I would consider creating the blog as a folder within your site. Having a blog that refers to your business quite a bit is best found under your domain as it provides a great deal of long tail keywords, will provide a lot of internal linking which done right improves usability and most importantly it gives your site breadth and depth,  giving it an air of authority. As for mass uploads and reduced man hours.  Firstly, in my mind the only blogging platform that excels at optimised layout is wordpress. Although you can copy paste content from editors (like word), I would highly recommend you give the relevant parties their own author logins,  teach them all the editing options and style requirements and have them draft everything in wordpress. For added consistency, have an editor (a nominated person) look over it to ensure each article has the same look and feel before publishing. If it is simply pre written documents,  I would suggest copy/pasting them into a plain text editor eg. Notepad and copy/paying them to wordpress.  This will remove the formatting. To save on the man hours, employ someone of oDesk to do the grunt work. Articles uploaded from Word and other word processing applications often paste poorly as they have a number of hidden tags that leave a mess of styles. Dan

I think what the OP wants to do is create a few micro sites with the main objective of getting links to his main website. OP, its not worth the time and effort. If the microsite serves a purpose other than simply linking to your site from within the articles then go for it. If your hoping to see an improvement in rankings by doing this, its not going to be worth your while. Greg

P My guess is that it's highly likely they are being linked to arbitrarily by the asian sites. It happens. Often these sites are just spamming out links for their own ends and no one went after them. As to value to an English speaking site, I don't believe if you are looking at it in a wide view perspective that it will assist them much. Best, Robert

Tools like PRWeb can definitely drive traffic to your website and potentially drive conversions. However, garbage in, garbage out so the content of the PR you are sending is EVERY bit as important as the conduit itself. Your copy must be compelling enough for users to read and hopefully publishing editors to post on their news/blog websites to get you the most traction. Use best practices of content marketing to write high quality, compelling copy. Many great examples here at seomoz.org, hubspot.com &  copyblogger.com. Hope that helps.

Sorry for the slow response and thanks for the quality answer!

I think the answer is are you paying for a link or are you paying for an editor to decide if your website is of sufficient quality and relevance to be included. This is what differentiates a worthwhile listing.

It's okay to reciprocal link with a quality website. I "reciprocal" link to my BBB page: http://www.bbb.org/san-diego/business-reviews/freight-forwarding/ship-overseas-inc-in-san-diego-ca-25001132/. I recommend that you read: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo