Did Google Ignore My Links?
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Hello,
I'm a little new to SEO, but I recently was featured (around 2 yrs ago) on some MAJOR tech blogs.
For some reason however, my links aren't getting picked up for over 2 years - not even in MOZ, or other link checker services. - By now I should have had amazing boost from this natural building, but not sure what happened?
This was completely white hat and natural links.
The links were after the article was created though, would this effect things? - Please let me know if you have any advice! - Maybe I need to ping these some how or something? - Are these worthless?
Thanks so much for your help!
Here's some samples of the links that were naturally given to http://VaultFeed.com
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/15/4733176/microsoft-says-pulled-iphone-parody-ads-were-off-the-mark
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/16/microsoft_mocks_apple_in_vids_it_quickly_pulls/
And a LOT more...
Not sure if these links will never be valid, or maybe I'm doing something completely wrong? - Is there any way for Google to recognize these now, and then they'll be seen by MOZ and other sites too?
I've done a LOT of searching and there's no definitive advice I've seen for links that were added after the URL was first indexed by Google.
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Congratz on the publicity! Those are some great links!
Unfortunately though, Google may be ignoring them because they contain the tag rel="nofollow" which basically tells Google (and other search engines) not to follow it. The Daily Mail one definitely does, so I would check the others too. Many big publishers will nofollow external links, as they can't "vouch" for what they're linking to and don't want to risk the association.
Though the mention of your site, even with a nofollow link, isn't without benefit to your website! The Daily Mail one alone has a page authority of 51 and a domain authority of 94, so being linked to from there is impressive. It puts your website in a "good neighbourhood", so to speak. But just not as SEO-effective as it would have been if it were followed.
If the link doesn't contain the rel="nofollow" tag then it doesn't matter if the link was added after Google first indexed it. If Google crawls the page again, after the link was added, it would count it.
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