Problem generating backlinks

[tarik3001]

Hello everyone,

Over the past couple of days I have been using a variety of different free and paid programs to check how many backlinks I have.  I have used at least 15 different ones, SEOmoz is the newest and am awaiting those results.  All but one of those programs have said that I have 0 backlinks.  The one said I have 11.  The thing is...over the past month I have submitted my site to over 500 PR0 directories, 250+ PR3-PR7 directories, have made well over 75 article submissions to over 20 websites(almost all of them were approved and up and running, and some of these websites have a PR of 7), a couple dozen Press Releases, set up profiles linking to my site on over 50 forums, set up profiles linking to my site on a variety of different Web 2.0 sites, and still nothing.  I have been doing this every day for over a month.  Anyone have any ide?

[jay.raman]

I would give it more time to see if your links are going to be indexed and focus on building a 'natural' link profile. Building 100+ links in a short space of time with a new site can be dangerous if they are low quality/spammy. My advice is to slow down and focus on quality links from a range of sources.

[tarik3001]

About a month and a half ago I launched my site. I manually created 100 plus links and I verified that they are active. Then after a couple weeks of no results I tried a service. So maybe I just have to wait a little longer for them to appear? Painfully slow process ha ha. Also how did you know I eventually bought a package

[Copstead]

I would also be extremely careful on what you are using right now to build your links.  If you are a new site it isn't a good idea to start off with a bunch of garbage links coming in.  Focus on building quality links, not quantity.

Here is another Q&A today about link building with some great example of the best ways of doing so.

http://www.seomoz.org/q/new-linkbuilding-if-networks-are-useless-and-i-need-high-volume-through-a-1-man-team-what-s-the-best-option

[Copstead]

It looks like you purchased a link building package.  I would wait on their reports to see where the links actually are, and personally check them to see.

Inbound links aren't going to show instantly.  Everything has to be indexed, so it will take months before you start seeing numbers (if any based on the sites they are on).

For example, SEOmoz starts their crawl and like search engines takes time crawling many sites.  So even if their report came out today, and you and new links last week, they might have actually crawled the sites your links are on 3 weeks ago.