Drop in Internal Links to Root

[tdawson09]

This morning I noticed in Google Webmaster Tools that my internal links to my root domain (Home Page), dropped from 428,000 to 58,000. It appears that this could be my header or footer links back to the home page that Google is not showing any more. My programmers claim they have not made any changes over the last 30 days. My rankings and traffic are normal.

Any cause for concern?

[SanketPatel]

Hi,

This is normal that Google doesn't shows traffic data some times it was also happen with me i lost my search query and backlinks data but after sometimes Google shows all data. Have you receive unnatural link removal message from Google? Google changed it's policy now if it found more links from home page then it can be penalize your site. Google remove low quality links so it may be a reason. So don't be panic see your analytic traffic is it normal ?

[tdawson09]

My traffic and rankings are all normal. So I'm making an assumption that Google is just doing some cleaning up in Webmaster Tools by not showing a lot of of those internal links that are not being given a lot of value anyway. It's been almost two weeks now, and nothing is affected.

Thanks for your reply and input.

If anyone else has seen this with their internal links, I'd be interested in your outcome.