ODP Link Not Credited.

Has been a month.

[IITian]

About a month ago, I got a link from ODP. Unfortunately, it did little to my ranking (with PR unchanged) since then and the link does not show up. Even today when it seems like links have been updated.

Moreover puzzling is the fact that on the ATW (alltheweb) corresponding links from dozens of ODP-clone directories is shown but not the ODP link.

I would have waited this out but then I read on another thread that people who got links 2 weeks ago, are seeing them now after this link/PR update.

Anyone else experiencing this?

[Brett_Tabke]

Ya, there have been many reports of the ODP back links no longer counting.

[rfgdxm1]

>Ya, there have been many reports of the ODP back links no longer counting.

I see them for many sites. To the OP, what is the PR of the ODP cat in question?

[IITian]

rfgdxm1, the cat is PR6 with about 40 links. I was expecting around high PR4.

[rfgdxm1]

In that case IITian I'd say hang in there and wait. Odds are it will show eventually. Google may not have spidering the ODP and adding backlinks a high priority. Certainly Google has been very lazy and slow updating its own directory. The ODP has for many months doing weekly RFD dumps. Google has been known to take months between updates of the Google directory nonetheless.

[IITian]

rfgdxm1 and Brett:

Yes, seems like I will have to wait a bit longer. I checked on a few other sites in the same category that were added about about the same time my site was added and evey those don't show up having back links from the directory.

[steveb]

One month is way too soon.

Check the cache of the page you are on. Many category pages are showing quite old caches, and subsequently sites that should be getting links from a category are not.

Even more widespread should be the flakiness of links from the Google Directory. Some sites that shouldn't have backlinks still have them because one of the datacenters didn't update its Directory until a few days ago. So pages often got crawled with an obsolete bunch of links on the page.

If the category you are in shows an old cache, throw a link(s) at it to give bot another way to find the new page. If it shows a cache with your link in it, it might only have been crawled a few days ago.

In any case, one month is too soon to be concerned about.

[steveb]

"Yes, seems like I will have to wait a bit longer. I checked on a few other sites in the same category that were added about about the same time my site was added and evey those don't show up having back links from the directory."

Pretty definitely then the category just wasn't crawled. Probably a good idea to link to it from your main page for awhile.

[webdevsf]

It took about 2-3 months before my ODP link registered.

[IITian]

steveb,

I checked the cache of the category and it shows a recent snapshot. Moreover, a search for a keyphrase from that category showed up that page.

Am not selling Christmas gifts through my site and therefore am not worried. I think I can wait it out.

(Am still in somewhat dark about how Google crawls ODP directory, think will have to read a few older threads on this subject. Crawls my lowly index pages almost daily, though.)

[steveb]

You should be fine for next time. When you search for text on the page, see if the page has a fresh date after it. If it does, well then it is fresh, but on days it doesn't the cache might revert back to an older one. That's going on a lot now. Anyway, you should be fine for next time.

[Oaf357]

I feel your pain. My site was in ODP three months ago, made in into the Google directory about a month and a half ago and the cat doesn't show in the SERPs and there is absolutely no PR or link popularity update from it.

I'm probably expecting too much too soon but I'm figuring after Florida settles and the following update after that I should be good to go.

All we can do is sit back and develop good content and wait everything out.

[penfold25]

sometimes it has taken months to be registered, my advice listen to these experts here.

[ClearlyBusiness]

our site is in odp for 3 months and in the google directory for 2 months, having a PR 7. The problem is, that when I go to the page, it doesn´t highlight the directory button in the toolbar, therefore I am thinking, that google still doesn´t count the link, true?

[steveb]

No, that's different. June was the last time they updated the directory thingee on the toolbar, and the listing of categories under sites in the serps. Hopefully it will update again soon. Might be another month or so though.