Google webmaster tools Who links the most updates?

[cbielich]

Has anyone ever seen in the section in GWT "Who links the most" actually update. I have sites listed in there that had me on a blogroll so I had 93,000 links to me and they removed those links months ago but GWT still shows that number of links. Does anyone else actually see those numbers go down as links are removed?

[Debdulal]

_Yes the number of links will eventually go down but it will take some while. Google needs to re-index those pages before you can see any difference in the GWT data. Nothing to worry about. Just get rid of those bad links and you will be good. _

[eyepaq]

Yes, on our case some links that were removed in April are still showing up in WMT. Some links removed in August just got out of the WMT list.

Some links from the April set are on pages with a high crawl rate (based on some initial data) so I was also wondering what is happening. Maybe those links are still on pages that are in the sup index and it can take more  - although I would place "a few months" in the more bucket.

However I still strongly believe that is either a WMT update (display) issue or a sup index thing - or a combination of both.

Since you've mention the links were in the blogroll - it make sense to have most of those eon pages in the sup index but still the number should be at least smaller already since you've mention the links were gone a few months ago.

[cbielich]

Here is a senario I found with one of the sites that contained links to me.

domain.com linked to an internal page located at /page1/ so the link to that page was domain.com/page1/. This page contained a link to me but has been removed BUT the link to the internal page on that website has also been removed. So the website no longer has the link domain.com/page1/, but the page is indexed and still exists. Since Google will not find a link to that page on their site will Google ever recrawl that page?

[ChrisHolgate]

We were on the blogroll of a site that had 7,000 odd pages but these links weren’t yet being displayed in our GWT.  We pre-emptively requested that the link was removed but 30-40 days later the now non-existent links started to be picked up and reported in GWT.  Two months later and they’re still there.

It does appear there is somewhat of a staleness to the data.