Yahoo Backlink Drop for all Directories

Till yesterday everything was fine at least from Yahoo side, but today when i checked yahoo today for back link count, its low for all the directories!!!

Example can be checked from directories which were listed here for more than 100k backlinks -
http://www.avivadirectory.com/downloadblog/?p=309

Here are the updated results for some of the directories, including DMOZ too -

Directory ------------------------------------- Before --------- Present backlinks
http://www.dmoz.org/ --------- 4,632,835 ------- 609,916
http://www.business.com/ ----- 2,318,784 ------ 328,719
http://www.alivedirectory.com/ 1,913,153 ---- 612,769
http://www.bigweblinks.com/ -- 1,153,339 ------ 400,817
http://www.relmaxtop.com/ --- 955,902 ---------- 65,251
http://www.avivadirectory.com/ 862,289 -------- 272,939
http://botw.org/ ------------------ 526,158 --------- 78,004
http://www.romow.com/ -------- 524,656 --------- 253,679
http://www.linksjuice.com/ ----- 456,509 ---------- 82,291
http://www.dirsensei.com/ ----- 438,394 --------- 198,421
http://www.2yi.net/ ------------- 419,353 --------- 127,172
http://www.haabaa.com/ ------- 383,166 --------- 131,714
http://www.sevenseek.com/ --- 376,523 --------- 119,214
http://directory.v7n.com/ ------ 363,854 --------- 50,337
http://www.directorydump.com/ 326,338 -------- 134,161
http://www.allydirectory.com/ - 314,700 --------- 80,161
http://www.ewebpages.org/ --- 235,551 ----------67304
http://www.nobledirectory.com/ 96,754 ---------- 21,217


This is a big drop in the number of back links for all the sites

Is yahoo too filtering all the links?

 

Yes, yahoo is too filtering all the links

 

And now the main thing which i checked just now.
Their Yahoo Directory too - http://dir.yahoo.com/

Previously had 339,030,616 back links and now has 15,696,701

 

Why is everyone behind directories, Now after Google we have Yahoo... I just checked mine also. there is a drop

 

Probably they learned to give better estimates of the link counts.

 

Yes maybe no more inflated figures.

 

I think they are displaying the correct backlinks to a site

Before this change if you are using Yahoo api,you may find a huge difference between backlinks found by siteexplorer and backlinks by api.

 

Yes. My non-directory site has seen a large decrease in Yahoo links this week. It's now lower than the links total at Google Webmaster Tools.

 

So finally yahoo also realized the truth and opened their eyes.

 

It appears to be all websites, not just directories.

 

I'd give it a while before jumping to conclusions - yahoo backlinks often flucturates

 

Yep it is fluctuating whole day!
My directory backlink count was 21k, and now 58k
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=http://www.nobledirectory.com&bwm=i&bwmf=a&bwms=p

 

I don't think it's due to sitewides.. i'm not too sure.

But one of my newest sites is showing 200k+ links, but there are some sitewides from large sites....

 

Yahoo is always making backlinks drops n increase. I am sure soon it should be back to normal.

 

So what' about all this ADO?

Yahoo updates backlinks preety often. It can last 1-2 days.
I think tomorrow at least all will be updated again.

For linkforever.net I noticed:

yesterday: over 400K
today morning: dropped to 96K
and now: again raising: 250K
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.co...orever.net&bwm=i&bwmf=u&searchbwm=Explore+URL

 

Either they are changing their algorithm... OR they will come back again soon..

But yahoo is much better than google in backlink update frequency.

 

Well, the stats seem to be back again.

Chetan, i think Jeff hasn't updated his blog since a month or so. Coz last i kknew that alldirectory.com had 400k backlinks on yahoo siteexplorer and not 314,700

And what i see is, that it's back in the stats now:
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=http://www.allydirectory.com&bwm=i&bwmf=a&bwms=p

So everything was a temporary glitch

 

It's just back to normal.