Got Yesterday's Post to Page 3 in Google But No Backlinks?

[kentheriot]

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

[MikeF421]

Don't slow down. Just be relatively consistant.

Not at all unusual for backlinks to take some time showing up. And no search engine ever reveals all of your backlinks they may have indexed. It's just the way it is.

Without knowing anything about your keywords or how competitive your keywords are, I would say getting ranked that high already is a good start.


One thing I forgot to mention in any of my posts, and I'm not sure which way you did it... but I always recommend that you put your articles on your site FIRST. Then submit them to Ezine. Not the other way around. Your best material belongs on your site.

Only exception to that is if you are using an article solely for marketing purposes, and it will never show up on your site.

Good job though. Keep it up.

[kentheriot]

Mike,

Thanks for the feedback. The keyword phrase for this post/article (post did go first, BTW) only has about 1000 searches per month on Google, so not the the most competitive but probably not the most profitable either. Small moves.

Cheers,

Ken

[MikeF421]

Whether it is highly competitive or not so competitive doesn't matter that much. If there was more competition, you would do the same activities, just more of them.

It's good that you are seeing that this SEO thing works.

Having said that, don't be shocked if at some point your site drops down to page 8 or not even in the top 20 pages for a bit at some point. That's normal. People call it "The Google Dance". It will come back in a few days. Sometimes it might even take a week or two, but don't freak out. Just keep building backlinks.

[kentheriot]

Having said that, don't be shocked if at some point your site drops down to page 8 or not even in the top 20 pages for a bit at some point. That's normal. People call it "The Google Dance". It will come back in a few days. Sometimes it might even take a week or two, but don't freak out. Just keep building backlinks.

Thanks for the head-up Mike! that is exactly what is happening.

-K