Thread: Webmaster Tools - sudden drop

Anyone else noticed a sudden drop in links listed in webmaster tools?

Just checked, my links are totally different now, many links are gone, about 95% previously listed with WT.

Not seen anything on the web about this yet, it could just be a glitch and they may turn up again. Certainly hope so!

Before Update I found over 300 Links..
now WMT only shows 70 Links...
thats strange!

Same is the case with me ...

The count dropped from 1600 to 680 for my tech blog !

Looks like its a widely occurring glitch Google Webmaster Tools Links to Your Site Count Drops hopefully nothing to worry about

Update: Google's John Mueller said in another Google Webmaster Help thread that this appears to be a bug. He said:

This looks like a bug or a temporary fluctuation with how the data is shown in Webmaster Tools. Your links are still around and being counted normally within our algorithms (at least the sample I double-checked) -- this wouldn't negatively affect your site's crawling, indexing, or ranking in our search results. I don't have a confirmation from the team yet, but we'll update here as we know more. Thanks for your patience & sorry for the confusion!