In Google search console all of sudden a lot of backlinks have disappear at "Link To Your Site"
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Hi after update in Google search console yesterday a lot of backlinks in "Link To Your Site" have disappear, before we had 43x domains now we have 12x domains linking to the site. I have checked the sites where we had link do-follow before and they are OK.
Can you please tell me the reason what has gone wrong. And also please guide me in fixing the issue ,
Hope to hear from you soon..!
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Did you ever resolve this issue If so what happened, and when did they return? I've read some people say that they this happened for 3-4 weeks then returned to normal.
Thanks,
Dave
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Hi Helen,
Other responders here are right, IMO - Search Console's "Links to Your Site" report has always been an unreliable view of actual inbound links.
We've seen strange behavior here, and often times a close inspection of the "Who links the most" URLs turns up no actual links. Likewise, we often find links via Moz Link Explorer, ahrefs, Majestic, etc that Google is not reporting.
In short, I wouldn't worry much about what Google is reporting here - we have not found a good use for this report as a measurement of actual links at Distilled and tend to ignore it for inaccuracy.
Best,
Mike -
Hi Helen
I have always looked on the backlinks in webmaster tools as just a guide.It only shows a sample of backlinks to your site and that sample can vary:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/T9kQMWej158
Regards
Nigel
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Hi
and thx for feedback I have checked SEMrush, Moz, Ahref and all of them are spot on regarding our backlinks. Also before Google Webmaster Tools did show our backlinks and all the sudden if was away and only show 12x of them. Its important for us the link juice from all domains. also we have not gone from http to https. We have always had https and the backlinks are also to our right domains with www.
Should I think about this or maybe something wrong with Google Webmaster Tools?
thx
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Hi Helen
I have checked your backlinks and they are growing over time, not falling - see the attachment from SEMrush.
Have you recently changed from http to https? if so make sure that both domains are in search console as you may be tracking an old one.
Whatever SEM is much more reliable.
Take a look at the screenshot - it shows 1700+ backlinks from 25 referring domains!
I hope that helps
Regards Nigel
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Hi heleneolsen,
I'm not aware of a problem like the one you describe, but I personally never trusted much backlinks shown in Google Webmaster Tools, I preferr tools like:
Moz's link explorer > https://mz.seotoolninja.com/pro/link-explorer/home
Ahrefs > https://ahrefs.com/
I recommend you to try them.
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