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I know that I am extremely new at this so bare with me.  I did backlinking on my site or so I thought I did, but when I check through the Google toolbar it says that there is none.  The links are not on the homepage they are on a page within the site.  Is this not the way to do it.  How exactly do you achieve backlinking?  The links go directly to the site they are supposed to so I thought it was working out great!  These links have been on for more than 4 months and the websites are still up.  Any help?