Linking to Your Site: Search Console Update

[FusionMediaLimited]

After links have been removed from site a to site b.

How long will it take until site b will see it in the webmaster tools that the links to his site are no longer there?

[EGOL]

Google remembers links for a long time.  Sometimes a month to many months.

Junk links to weak pages can persist for a very long time because they are the least frequently crawled.

[rjonesx. 0]

Moreover, we have seen up to a 3 week lag between the time at which Google crawls a page to discover a dropped link and then actually removes that link from GSC data. So, basically it works like this...

1. You remove link from page...
2. Google re-crawls page... (can take hours to months depending on frequency of re-indexing by Google)
3. Googel removes link from Google Search Console (can take days to 3 weeks)