Linking to Your Site: Search Console Update
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After links have been removed from site a to site b.
How long will it take until site b will see it in the webmaster tools that the links to his site are no longer there?
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Moreover, we have seen up to a 3 week lag between the time at which Google crawls a page to discover a dropped link and then actually removes that link from GSC data. So, basically it works like this...
1. You remove link from page...
2. Google re-crawls page... (can take hours to months depending on frequency of re-indexing by Google)
3. Googel removes link from Google Search Console (can take days to 3 weeks) -
Google remembers links for a long time. Sometimes a month to many months.
Junk links to weak pages can persist for a very long time because they are the least frequently crawled.
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