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Hi Vinny, In general LinkScape updates every 30 or so days. So if you gain a new link or 3 part way through LinkScape's cycle it's very possible that it will not be included in the most recent update. Also, as awesome as it would be if LinkScape's directory were as large as Google's, it isn't. This is mostly just due to technology constraints I'd guess, and not having dozens of ENORMOUS data centers like Google. Because of this there is a chance that some links will not be picked up (especially if the links might be on really new sites, or maybe rather spammy ones). So it really turns into a waiting game to see if those links you know exist are picked up on the next LinkScape cycle or not. Finally, unless I've managed to totally avoid it this whole time, the index doesn't have any sort of history. The amount of data storage required to maintain such a history would be crazy in conjunction with how often they currently update their index. To name drop one of SEOMoz's competitors (sorry guys XD ) majesticseo.com does actually offer historic indexing services. I don't know how in-depth they are when you're fully subscribed, as I've never been a paying member of their services. It may be something worth checking out. And if someone comes into this question and corrects me about SEOMoz having historic index access, definitely do that instead! I know I will =P.

Google will automatically pickup the reviews from other sites but you can increase the speed of sync by making sure your profile is an exact match on the review sites. It is highly recommended that you take over the ownership of your profile on each of the top local review sites and optimize your business information. We have tested this technique and it worked well. Here are the details of the test. Sample - Business A - New Google Place account and exact matching Judysbook.com + Citysearch account (exact headline, address, and tel#). Business B - New Google Place account and Judysbook.com + Citysearch account with a different headline but same phone number and address. Business C - New Google place account and JJudysbook.com + Citysearch account account with different phone # but same address and headline. Business D - New Google place account and Judysbook.com + Citysearch account account with different address but same headline and phone #. Submit each Judysbook.com + Citysearch account landing page to Twitter and digg manually one time only after reviews have been added. (Spam free Twitter account with 2000+ followers and clean Digg account with 50+ followers and regular diggs) Outcome Google picked up the reviews from Judysbook.com for A and Citysearch account for B. Note - Google only picked up 1 or 2 reviews for both A and B from the review site so there could be some special algorithm in place for selecting the reviews based on quality. I will be writing a blog post on my blog on this study soon. Hope this helps. Sameer