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I noticed that my site at the moment only has 12 backward links.
6 Months ago my site had 26 backward links. All 26 sites are still online and still have the links to my homepage.
Does anybody know why this happend?
1. Does Google delete links after a period or time?
2. Or does Google delete links from sites which do not change their content?
3. Or does google delete links based on another reason?
I noticed that all remaining links come from sites which have changed some of their content of the page I get the link from. I suspect that cause nr. 3 may effect this.
Hope you can help me solve it.
Regards,
Wouter
I noticed that my site at the moment only has 12 backward links.6 Months ago my site had 26 backward links...
Most likely due to Google not showing the same amount of backlinks as before (in general). If memory serves, GoogleGuy said you could not compare links shown before the last update or two to after/now.
Links should still count and be taken into consideration, even when they do not show in backlinks.
1) The sites you are getting backlinks from have decreased the rank they are passing on. If this took the links to you below the threshold then Google wouldn't show them as backlinks.
2) It's a byproduct of the recent updates (Dominic & Esmerelda).
3) Those sites were down during the last crawl cycle.
At the end of the day I could care less how many of my backlinks Google sees (which in this case is very few) - I'm happy as long as the links I spend my time acquiring actually generate useful traffic.
- Tony
There are a few possible explanations for this problem.
1. The page with the link no longer indexed by Google. This can happen if
1a. there is no link to a (new) site
1b. a sub page of a site is no longer linked in the site
1c. the page was temporarily added by 'fresh bot' but never made it in the full index
1d. the site has a lot of pages but a very low PR on the home page
1e. some other reason (site down during crawl, robots.txt, Meta NOINDEX, ..)
2. The PR of the page with the link dropped below some limit. Not all pages with a link will show up.
3. Google no longer finds the link because:
3a. the link changed to a JavaScript link/redirect link
3b. the link is after the first 101 kilobyte
3c. Meta NOFOLLOW
4. Problem at Google with the database. With the Dominic update (early May), the backlinks started to show less links for unknown reasons. One update later (Esmeralda) it is better but still not completely solved.
My feeling is that the last point (nr. 4) is most likely causing your problem. But it hurts more sites, so to some extend that should level out.
Thanks for your replies.
Takagi, I think nr. 4 is the reason.
For example our link from [example.com...]
is not indexed as backward link by Google.
This link used to count.
The only thing which still bothers me is that all the remaining links are links from sites which are new or have changed content.
Regards,
Wouter
[edited by: heini at 11:03 am (utc) on July 17, 2003]
[edit reason] edited per author request [/edit]
