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I am trying to help out a site with its Search Engine Optimization and I am experiencing something I can not explain. For the last 2 months I have tried to build some inlinks to the site.  Since then, I have been receiving a lot of comment spam, so I know that my links are being followed, at least by bots. The mystery is that when I look at this site through SEOmoz or any other backlink checker, the result is always 0 linking Root Domains, 0 Total Links. When I do a Google search with the domain I get 364 hits of sites that mention this domain, so the links are out there. What am I doing wrong? The Google search can be found at: https://www.google.com/search?q="prosperinhardtimes.net" Any help is greatly appreciated.