Contacts Do not sync to iCloud

I add a lot of contacts to my phone throughout the month. 
For some reason.  The contacts do not sync to icloud consistently. 
I have an iphone 4S, and am running Mavericks on my imac with the latest update 10.9.1.
I have talked to 3 Apple support techs.
I have restored phone, turned icloud on and off of all devices, all groups are checked in contacts, my mail, contacts and calendars are set as icloud as default on all devices.
Getting my contacts into icloud after I enter them onto my phone is not working..........

Have you checked to see if they are visible if you go to iCloud.com? That would probably isolate the problem to either the iPhone or the computer.
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