Google dropped all my inbound links all of a sudden

I am sick of this

[Raymond]

Google dropped "MOST" of my inbound links all of a sudden. I had a PR5 before, and now I only have a PR3. Thing is, those links are STILL THERE, active, and the PR on those link pages are above PR4.

I expected my PR could only go up, because I have acquired over 15 PR6 + PR7 links from the past month. Google didn't seem to care, it never had indexed those new inbound links, and now it decided to drop all my other links.

[seofreak]

hang in there, i belive it's just a semi-update. Big update is still due.

[Raymond]

I hope you are right!

I have spent the past 5 months getting my site to PR5 from PR0, it is very depressing to see it dropped all of a sudden.

[Wired Suzanne]

Do not believe the toolbar.... useless thing.

And Google will not keep showing the backlinks as you're used to see them.

[seofreak]

>>Do not believe the toolbar.... useless thing.

I do not agree with people saying toolbar is broken. I belive toolbar calculates according to the updated database at google. It's infact a good way to know what is the pattern of googles giving value to site or whats going on with google. Next update should recover back whatever seems messed up now.

>>And Google will not keep showing the backlinks as you're used to see them.

That I agree with.

[bwelford]

I believe something is going on today. My Links are the same as they have been at all datacentres for the past few weeks, except for two. This includes the new kr datacentre as well.

The two that are different are ex and in. These are both showing the same number of links, less than half the number of links seen at all the others. Surprisingly this lower number seems to be what the links picture was for a short period during the middle two weeks of August.

Can anyone guess what is happening?

Barry Welford

[dirkz]

Raymond, the most important thing is probably not the PR or the showing of backlinks, but how are your SERPs? Did your ranking change to the worse? Traffic?

[Raymond]

There is a slight change in ranking of the keywords that my site is targeting. Some got bumped down a slot or 2, and one of the main competitive phrase got bumped to page 2.

Haven't got enough data to proof that it is affecting my traffic.

[Dave_Hawley]

I too have lost over 100 inward links as of this morning :o( I should have had at least 50 added, some with a PR of 7 Luckily my PR has stayed at 6........for now.

Dave

[dirkz]

I haven't yet experienced a drop in PR, but for new sites my experience is that it takes a long time until even the first backlink appears. For established sites I don't care much about the backlinks appearing or not, only about their ranking.
My strategy for both situations (if it's not a drop to PR0):
Get more links.