What is Happening to Me?!

[jesse-landry]

Good Bizarre News Everybody (or maybe just me!)

This morning I'm back to a normal amount of links displaying in GWT. What once displayed 196,000 links now shows a more accurate 2,400.

No explanation, no ranking changes. Just gone now.

Thus closes one of the more bizarre chapters in my SEO career. I will forever wonder if this has happened to anyone else. Either way I'm glad they're gone.

Thanks for all the support and help in this. Glad it's over!!

[Carson-Ward]

Glad to hear it! Did the warning in WMT also disappear?

[jesse-landry]

No it did not. I was pretty sure those were unrelated though. This is a site that had a ton of blackhat links purchased about 9 months ago and I've been fighting them for ...well, 9 months. So I'm not too surprised by that although when I started there were about 6,000 links so I've gotten rid of a good 3,500 poison links so far.

My rankings haven't been hurt at all and the warning says it is taking action only on the links in question so I'm thinking it's actually a good thing and it's helping... not sure I'll keep watching.

Thanks again!

[jesse-landry]

Either way I hope this thread helps somebody else in the future. I should have titled it differently to make it searchable in Google. But there's some great advice from yous guys here...

Onwards!

[CleverPhD]

Good to hear.  Does lend support to the trend that GWT link data can be slow to update and in this case even go off the rails.