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Our Domain Authority has been at 42 or 43 for a couple months and it just increased to 54.  Why did this happen?

I would like to think that it is because of out SEO and linkbuilding work.  However, I suspect something else may be involved because the 3 competitors we track also all increased between 10 to 25 points at the same time.

What happened?  Did you make changes in the way you score DA or is this the result of changes in what pages you crawl?  Or what?

I've been building backlinks for about 2 months now, but the links are not showing up in seomoz.  What is going on?

I've built backlinks across many different domains and using a variety of techniques including:

• directories
• blog posts
• blog commenting
• pr websites
• industry sites that allow blog posting and press release posting
• industry forums

Some of the links I built were from finding links competitors had and then creating a similar link, like blog commenting.   In some cases I took blog articles from our site and published them on industry blog sites.

I've searched for many of the pages and I CAN find them, so they ARE being indexed by Google, but they are not showing up as backlinks.  I've read some posts that say it can take anywhere from 2 to 5 months or longer before the links show up.  I've also read that Google's Webmaster Tools may show the links before  seomoz does.

Couple questions:

• Why don't the links show up as backlinks in seomoz?
• Will they show up eventually in seomoz and, if so, when?
• Should the links show up in Google Webmaster tools before they do in seomoz?
• Is there any good reason to believe some of the links will never get recognized, or should I be confident that they will eventually get recognized?