The external links in Webmaster Tools show around 2800 backlinks for 2 months now while before, it showed almost 60k backlinks. The backlinks are still there, Yahoo reports almost 80k backlinks but Webmaster Tools doesn't gets updated at all for this site since 2 months ago. Also, as a note, I lost all the SERP positions in Google since the Dewey update, I don't know if this has something to do with it or not Any clue?
The external links report doesn't seem to update as often as it use too, usually it seems to do it every 14-30 days, varying actually between all my sites. I don't think there is any specific reason; probably due to the larger popularity of the webmasters tool to conserve on load time on the servers itself.
I was wondering about this because they have not updated the External Link count for my site since April 28.
2800 and 60K That is a big difference. "I lost all the SERP positions in Google" Not sure but may be you lost your ranking because of this drop in backlinks in webmaster tools. I don't see any backlinks drops for any of my sites. You got all these 60K backlinks from where?
as i said in my first post, i didn't actually lost any backlinks, they just don't show up in Webmaster Tools
vexx, just wondering how many of those 60k backlinks are from 'google' worthy sites... some of my sites show alot more link backs due to dumps, gallery submitters in yahoo but not in google....this is why i try to get authentic looking links these days... if u got 60k authentic links backs from decent pr sites then give me your secret =]
The most effective way to keep your SEPs is quality backlinks to your pages.So just keep fetching backlinks to your site.
well, 60k backlinks are like this: 5% directory links, 10% social networking links, 15% sitewide links on 2 websites(not reciprocal) and the rest are user made,natural etc Now, i don't know how many are on quality websites, but i have a few hundreds on pr5-6-7 websites and on high traffic site. I don't rly mind if Google doesn't show up links in Webmasters, Yahoo was and is more accurate anyway in this, but somehow I got worried, when loosing the SERPs at the last update, if this has something to do with it... i don't know..all just sucks atm