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    Is anybody else noticing a dramatic change to their 'links to your site' section in Google Webmaster Tools?

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    • ChrisHolgate
      ChrisHolgate last edited by

      Hey,
      Over the last six months or so we've been going through our backlink profile and cleaning up links from poor quality sources. Week by week there have been small changes in our Google Webmaster Tools 'links to your site' section to reflect this.

      I logged on this morning however and there has been a dramatic shift in the information displayed. Pretty much every bad link has been removed from the list including sites I know for a fact are still linking to us as they didn't communicate at all to our removal requests.

      Additionally, rather than showing the top 1000 links to our site as it used to, WMT is only showing 73 linking domains. The remaining 73 domains are good natural links from high quality sources.

      I'm guessing Google are just in the middle of an update and that the remaining linking domains (including the bad ones) will reappear shortly. This isn’t a request for advice or help but I’m just curious as to whether anybody else is seeing anything similar?

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          ChrisHolgate @Guest last edited by

          It's not an issue at all - Don't get me wrong I'm not in a hurry to get the low quality stuff back again!   🙂

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