Why are my backlinks decreasing slowly from week to week?

[Lexalytics]

I havent made any significant changes, but from week to week I'm seeing my back links slowly decrease (ie.15-17 at a time)

[RyanKent]

Hi Seth,

How exactly are you determining your backlinks are decreasing?

If you are using crawl reports from Moz, Google or other sources, understand most crawlers dump their data and perform fresh crawls of the web periodically. Often adjustments are made to the crawling algorithms, or other links on the internet change, which may impact the visibility of some backlinks.

You can use various tools such as Raven's Link Manager to track links. Simply add your current backlinks to the tool and you will receive an update if any link is removed.

Have you actually checked the links which have been removed? Or are you simply viewing reports and seeing numbers decrease? The only way to really know what is happening is to track each link. You can then understand if the link was really removed, or if it is an issue with the crawl report.