View Full Version : Has anyone seen Backlinks completely disappear lately?
scrubs
08-04-2006, 05:33 AM
Hi Everyone,
I've just done a couple of link searches on domains and noticed the results come up with zero. I know the domains in question have had a healthy IBL count in recent weeks, guess I must be seeing a glitch in the system perhaps?
Has anyone else experienced this irregularity?
bsaric
08-04-2006, 06:45 AM
If you don't see BL with G link domain, it's not meens that they are not there, you just can't see them.
Use Yahoo Siteexplorer tool or regular Yahoo linkdomain operator.
scrubs
08-04-2006, 07:35 AM
All other SE's are showing a link count apart from G.
If they are there one day and gone the next then this must be a glitch? A similar thing happend with the page index a few months ago, and they re-appeared.
Just wanted to know if anyone is experiencing similar results?
lazlozand
08-04-2006, 03:37 PM
i've seen a drop of about 175 out of 210 backlinks to my website with this last Google update.
no idea why the ones that are there are still there, and i have no idea why the ones that are gone were considered not worthy of this latest update.
very strange. very irritating.
eurodestination
08-05-2006, 03:17 AM
Yes very strange and VERY irritating. Looks like Google wants to play God with everyone's business. I lost about 40 backlinks and my PR from 5 to 4
bsaric
08-05-2006, 06:21 AM
I don't understand, why do even care about this numbers? There is a ton of other factors where you can see how strong is some domain.
evilgreenmonkey
08-05-2006, 06:47 AM
Yes very strange and VERY irritating. Looks like Google wants to play God with everyone's business. I lost about 40 backlinks and my PR from 5 to 4
If you did not drop in the listings, then these factors are unimportant. PR does not govern the Google results and link: is simply a sample and not a conclusive list of which sites link to you and are seen as important.
:cool:
Rob
BlizzGirl
08-06-2006, 10:48 AM
With the last update - a wholesale purging of Back Links seems to have happened - if yours were decreased or disappeared - more than likely the competition had the same thing happen.
If the links decreased across the board - it really doesnt matter. To build it back up - build great content and invite others to link to it. Blogs and authority sites seem to be the way to go for great links these days...at least in the hospitality industry
~Carrie
Google has been losing and then finding backlinks to my site since July. They also knocked my site way down in the SERPs on July 27th causing me to lose around 80% of my traffic.
scrubs
08-08-2006, 11:48 AM
Hi guys, sorry for the late reply. I am not necessarily worried or effected by this drop in back links, I believe it is a glitch in the system. Visitor numbers have maintained and PR (for what its worth).
All positions have held I think it is just a case of waiting till it updates. Due to the link count being so dated I'm not overly worried about its current state, just wanted to hear if this had happened to anyone else.
broomd
08-08-2006, 08:05 PM
For what it is worth, our backlinks count on google went up from 90 to 160. This happened a few weeks ago. However, the rank of the site has stayed the same.
I did notice a competitor with more than 1800 backlinks in google. However, all of the links showing in the top 800 where from their own website. Any ideas on how to get our internal pages showing under backlinks search in google? It would be nice to have another 600 links added without having to speak with 600 other webmasters.... :cool: