5.7 When does it start working?

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Last time I was in Maryland I stopped at that Three Brothers Italian place to get a couple of takeout pizzas. As usual, when I ordered and paid they gave me a card with my number — 49 that time, and I just sat on a comfy chair waiting for my pepperonis. Seems like 7 minutes or so — and they're ready!!! Then the waiter cries out "Fooooorty–Naaaain", I lift my hand and come back to the counter to pick the pizzas.

Why I'm reminding you of pepperonis? Sure not just to show how good it is to know when your pizza is ready. I'm just trying to draw a parallel with links.

Now let's think link building and remember why we do it all. We don't get links just to have links, right? We need good links to look important to Search Engines and to grow our rankings. And though when you already have thousands of links, a couple more links may come unnoticed, but for a young site with few links, an add–up of a dozen links can be very important.

Now the point is, when you get a link, it'll take a couple of days — but maybe even much longer — till Search Engines notice it. If you don't know the exact moment when it happens, you'll be sitting "waiting for your pizza" for ages.

The question beginning SEOs often ask: how do you know when Search Engines see your links?

Assuming you've got the SEO PowerSuite pack already, it's a minute's business. When you started not long ago and each link matters, the best way to check how many of your links have been noticed, and the only way to do this fast is SEO SpyGlass software. It finds out which links to ANY website Search Engines see. And though the main trick of this software is spying on your competitor's backlinks, it will be a huge help when you must know everything about links to your own site.

I'll teach you the 3 simple steps to make this check, as long as you download SEO SpyGlass and install it on your computer. Here's once again where you can get the SEO PowerSuite tools.

Step 1 — launch SEO SpyGlass and click the button "New" to start a new project.

Starting a project in SEO SpyGlass

Step 2 — enter your webpage's URL, like I did here:

Specifying URL in SEO SpyGlass

Step 3 — choose Search Engines in which you want to rank high and hit Next to fire up the check.

Search Engine choice in SEO SpyGlass

Several minutes — and in the software you see all links, as Search Engines see them. You can compare them with your list in LinkAssistant to see how many of your links have already been indexed.

When you're sure that Google already sees some of the links, it's time to check your rankings with Rank Tracker and find out how many positions you've gained due to these links.

DO IT NOW! Check which of your backlinks Search Engines already see and how it influenced your rankings.

One more important note: after you're done with the first round of partner search, don't delay for too long to go to the first step of link building again, and try to find some new partners and get links from them. Don't stop link building until you get the desired top positions in Search Engines. And even when you're ranking #1, don't forget your competitors will want to outrank you — so take care of your links all the time.

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