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validseo said:

If your website is too new you may not get credit for any backlinks for 6-10 months... If your website is older than that it can take 1-22 days to see the effects based on where google is in the process of its gigantic map/reduce process. You typically start the day count from the first google cache date that reflects the change on the site with the backlink and start counting forward until you see the effect it has on your traffic. I have only been able to do this with absolutely massive backlinks... genuine PR7+ (but we can't check PR anymore) otherwise it can be difficult to see the expected change. Not impossible, but difficult. Often you will see a bump in organic google traffic before you see the change in rankings... This is because traffic gets logged when you aren't actively looking... rankings get checked and updated periodically so Google Analytics is a decent way to look for the initial bump.

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validseo said:

If your website is too new you may not get credit for any backlinks for 6-10 months... If your website is older than that it can take 1-22 days to see the effects based on where google is in the process of its gigantic map/reduce process. You typically start the day count from the first google cache date that reflects the change on the site with the backlink and start counting forward until you see the effect it has on your traffic. I have only been able to do this with absolutely massive backlinks... genuine PR7+ (but we can't check PR anymore) otherwise it can be difficult to see the expected change. Not impossible, but difficult. Often you will see a bump in organic google traffic before you see the change in rankings... This is because traffic gets logged when you aren't actively looking... rankings get checked and updated periodically so Google Analytics is a decent way to look for the initial bump.

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