Lost inbound link from Huffington Post???

[Pace]

My website was featured on HuffPost's "7 Sites You Should Be Wasting Your Time On" in September of 2011 and somewhere along the way it no longer gets recognized as a linking domain?  The site/page itself ('7 Sites' from Sept 2011) still exists through direct linking, and my site's link is still on there.  I am looking at it right now (still knew the URL because I put it as a link in the 'About' section of my site).

Any theories as to how/why this happened and if it is due to something on my end?  Any way to get it back?

[KeriMorgret]

So, the link is there, but not showing up in either Google's Webmaster Tools or Open Site Explorer?

Right now, GWT is not displaying a ton of inbound links, it's a known bug that happened this week.

For Open Site Explorer, we are not able to crawl all the web, so we may sometimes miss links on a particular crawl.

If you can give us a couple of more details we can help answer your question a bit more. Thanks!

[Pace]

Yes, that is correct, both GWT and OSE.

The link disappeared before this week, so I think the bug can be ruled out.

My website is http://www.suggestashow.com

here is the Huffpo page in question:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/7-sites-you-should-be-wasting-time-on_n_962680.html#s361202&title=Suggest_A_Show

What other details would be helpful?

Thank you such a quick response.

[ThompsonPaul]

Further to what Keri was saying, no link tool out there promises to track/report every single link you have - not even Google's own Webmaster Tools. In fact it's only recently that GWT has increased reporting of incoming linking root domains.

As long as the link is still on the page and the page is still indexable by Google (and it is - last cache date is Jan 26), then the link is still contributing to your ranking.

Just because tools aren't reporting it doesn't mean it's not still contributing to your site's authority.

Paul

P.s. Keri thanks for the heads-up on this week's GWT glitch - that's the first I've heard about it..