"Links To Your Site" In Webmaster Tools

[inhouseseo]

How often does Google update the "links to your site" data. It seems that it has been static for about a month now even though we have made a lot of changes

Does anyone have any idea?

If you have made changes to your links (i.e removed links, updated anchor text, etc.), do you have to wait for this information to be updated to measure the impact? Or is that whenever Google crawls those pages/sites and sees changes there is a adjustment.

Thanks

[EGOL]

Mine is updated every few days.  Like once a week.

[TakeshiYoung]

Webmaster tools is generally out of date and incomplete.  As far as actual rankings go, they should have an impact when they're crawled by Google, not when they show up in GWT.

[warnerdata]

It depends.  I've seen mine updated with 24 hours and then sometimes it can takes weeks for any update to occur.

Even thought GWT might not be showing your changes, that doesn't mean Google spider and the actual search part of Google hasn't already seen and given you those additions.  GWT doesn't seem to tap directly into the Google back end stuff but seems to have its own way of updating.

Have the links change when using Open Site Explorer here?

[inhouseseo]

No. I don't know how often the OSE index is updated. Knowing my own backlinks, I know only a part of my links appear.

Google seems to be more thorough with the links, and it is coming from the search engine that is ranking your keywords.