Number of links shown in history report are going down?

[MarkTik]

I'm looking at the link history for my site and 3 competitors I am tracking and for all sites External followed links have dropped by about 40% over the last 2 months.

Has anyone else seen this with their sites?  What would be possible reasons for this?

Thanks,
Markus

[tomcraig86]

Have you checked these links? Are they still there?

[MarkTik]

Hi Tom,

Thank you for your response.

How can I check this?

Markus

[KeriMorgret]

It could also be related to the size of our index. Since everything has dropped, I'd say it's likely. We're working on pushing out OSE updates faster, but to do so, we need to crawl fewer pages. The last couple of crawls have been smaller than what we had in late spring.