In my never ending search for understanding I have come upon another question. I took Mike's advice and used his process as much as I could yesterday.

I wrote an article & submitted to Ezine. It went live in the afternoon. I created a blog post of the same article. I keyword-optimized it (which for me means putting in the researched KW twice in the 1st 350 words, one or twice more in the body, in the title, meta description and KW list).

Then I used Articlebot to submit to 100+ directories, Socialbot to submit hundreds of bookmarks, and RSSbot to ping my feed. Then I placed a BUNCH of comments on a BUNCH of blogs.

After that I started work on a link wheel, finishing only 5 or so Web 2.0 sites before my day ended.

Whew! Now here is my question. According to Market Samurai, this morning my post url ranks #26 on Google for the target keyword (pretty good for 24 hours I guess, yes/no?) but MS shows NO BACKLINKS for this page. A big goose egg. I know it takes days or longer sometimes for backlinks to show up, and sometimes longer for them to show on Google. But with all the stuff I did yesterday, including linking back to my post from Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, etc. etc. etc., is it strange to not be showing any backlinks yet?

Thanks! Never had so much fun working this hard

Ken