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Massive drop in backlinks on Google Search Console
Has anyone noticed a big drop in the Google Search Console links report?
When I checked this morning, I was surprised to see that my backlinks have dropped from 6-7,000 down to 750!
Also, internal links have dropped from 35-40,000 down to 5,500!
On Ahrefs, my backlink count is 11,000 and increasing.
With Google at present, there seem to be new surprises almost every day.
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Yes. Some of My backlinks disappeared a few hours ago. The numbers aren’t the same as they were 24 hours ago.
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Facing the same issue. If anyone has a solution, please let us know.
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Beyond deranking thousands of sites, it seems like Google is dumping large parts of the web.
Not suprising as crawling costs money. It’s why related searches and PAA results are all the same. It’s cheaper to cache results than generate unique results on most searches.
By all accounts, Google is hardly a search engine anymore. Content dropped today, tomorrow you might not even be able to check your backlinks when Google drops Search Console.
That costs money, too.
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seems like a glitch
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Came here to search for the same thing! Mine also dropped overnight, from thousands down to about 200, from only 9 websites.
They seem to have removed the “spammy” links, which is great. But in the process they also removed nearly all of my high-quality backlinks. For me, this includes major, high-ranking national/international websites, big news publications, and important, industry-recognized blogs where my work had been featured. I also had a good amount of backlinks from Pinterest; now I have 5.
I’m happy they removed the spam, but why remove the high-quality links? I’ve spent the past year working really hard to build those, and now they’re gone.
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Same here! My backlinks drop to 1!!! This is insane!
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Did some link building via wikis and UGC. These links are all gone now.
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Facing the same issue.
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Is it possible it’s now measuring the active ones only? I saw something being discussed along these lines in relation to the leaked documents.
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Google shite show strikes again!
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Looks like an issue on their end or there might be something they are testing or enforcing like refreshing links after a particular period which means they are now showing links gained last 6 months or 1 year (timeline they’ve set) and other links are now not recorded. Just an assumption.
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A sudden drop in backlinks could be due to various reasons, including changes in Google’s algorithm, website restructuring, or a decrease in the number of linking domains.
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All backlinks on Google Search Console are gone. Hope, they will restore it soon.
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Hope this thing is temporary. Really annoying 🤬
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Same question. I wonder if it will affect the ranging and search traffic too, or it’s just a display/reporting thing.
I even lost some internal links as well.
Good stuff I never bought links. I can’t even imagine paying thousands of dollars just to have links removed from GSC.
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