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I submitted articles with backlinks to my website to a few article submission directories. However, when I...

ran a SEO software analysis on my website, the backlinks don't seem to appear to be linking back to my website. I went back to the directories to check if the URLs are correct, and they are. Why aren't the backlinks linking to my website?

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1. Many article directories now use rel="nofollow" and rel="noindex" tags. So even if you submit to thousands of article submission sites, not everyone will be willing to give your site a backlink. Some even plainly do not make the link to your site live. Submission is one thing, but seeing if the site where you give your articles is giving you backlinks is a whole different ballgame. One concern of article submission directories is duplicate content because they know that their content can be seen and read from other similar sites.
2. If you used the Google link command then you will not see all the backlinks because Google only shows a 'sample' of the ones it actually know about. Use Yahoo site explorer to see all your backlinks http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ As far as article submission directories are concerned they are a waste of time http://www.seo-blog.com/publishing-articles.php
3. 2 options: Option one: Search engines have not registered those links to your website yet. Solution: Wait between 3 weeks to 4 months for them to re-crawl. Option two: The directories you mentioned are using the NOFOLLOW meta tag, which means that the search engines will read the link, but not recognize it as a link. Solution: None.