When Google crawls a website, it will follow the links to other pages within the site and other external pages. After crawling, new links will be indexed.
But then, how often Google crawls a particular site depends on a number of factors, including site structure, domain age and authority, page loading speed, content quality and more.
So, Google may take time to index your backlinks. This can be anywhere from days to months.
As long as the search engine doesn’t recognize your backlinks, they won’t bring you any SEO benefit. I’m sure nobody wants to see their backlinks staying idle for they don’t know how long.
That’s reason enough to speed up your backlink indexing, right?
How Long Does it Take Google to Index Backlinks?
Again, let’s be honest. Some backlinks may get indexed in a few days while for some other backlinks, it may take weeks or even months to be indexed by Google. But why? That’s exactly the question you should ask here because knowing what is stopping Google from indexing your backlinks will help you figure out how you can speed up the indexing process.