Google removing pages from Index for Panda effected sites?

[MBayes]

We have several clients that we took over from other SEO firms in the last 6 months. We are seeing an odd trend.  Links are disappearing from the reports. Not just the SEOmoz reports, but all the back link reports we use.

Also... sites that pre Panda would show up as a citation or link, have not been showing up. Many are these are not Indexed, and are on large common Y.P or other type sites.

Any one think Google is removing pages from the Index on sites based on Panda.

Yours in all curiosity.

PS ( we are not large enough to produce quantity data on this.)

[CraigBradford]

Hey mike,

I'm not sure if I understand your question completely but I'l give it a shot.

You are saying that links you used to find in OSE, Yahoo site explorer, majestic etc are now not showing up when you repeat searches? If that's true I wouldn't look to much into it. I've used Yahoo lots of times and the links jump in and out of their index. What about Google webmaster tools? I'm assuming if they are clients you have access to that data, have a look in their as to which links Google reports, these tend to not move as much since Google don't seem too bothered about telling you information about your own site.

In any case if they are crappy links you should be focusing on getting them taken down, in which case it's nothing to worry about. Specifically on Panda though, yes Google could definetly be removing pages if they are really bad content, after all thats what panda was made for.

Hope this helps

Craig