G Webmaster Tools

[alexcruncha]

Google Webmaster Tools as of today reports that my site has half the number of backlinks as it did last week.

Can anyone explain why? My links are still there and nothing has changed.

Maybe Google has devalued some of my link sources?

BTW. My GPWA links have now disappeared from the list

[WinYourWayKyle]

Weird..... This happened to me today as well.
I dropped like 150 backlinks today, and I have been trying to figure out why...
I have no idea.....

[CoopersPick]

I can explain this. Some of the links you have may be on a blogroll or a temp link on a blog page that gets picked up by tons of scripts and crawlers on the G-bot. When the crawler goes back it may be missing the link thus changing the total count.

[alexcruncha]

I have just checked Webmaster Tools again this morning and interestingly the amount of total links has gone back up today significantly. My GPWA links are still not there but others that weren't there before are now. I spoke to one of my friends that used to work for the big G and he says that this happens when they change the algorithms.

[craig96]

I would not worry about it this has happened for a while now and there are a few explanations for this. I have noticed that links can vary alot in WMTs

Either there is a bug in the system

Google does not want to waste the resources of showing EVERY link

Google does not want to show you every link that you have

Also, read: https://www.gpwa.org/forum/google-we...es-194371.html

[WinYourWayKyle]

Ok, I was not panicking....
Ya, I notice that is changed on a frequent basis...
Maybe google does this as well so people are not able to find out how bots spider sites and stuff, to keep it very inconsistent....