For almost a month, Google's Webmater Tools doesn't show the correct number of backlinks toward my site. The site had almost 50k backlinks in Webmasters but it shows now around 3-4k. Most of the backlinks are still there, I verified this but I don't get it, it's a penalty, Webmasters problem or what?
the real problem is, i was penalyzed also for some reason we don't know, prolly the Dewey update happening now. We used to have 7k daily visitors from Google and now nothing. We didn't do any black hat seo, sell links etc. Seeing that links are not appearing in Webmasters combined with this, got me thinking...and I don't know what to do anymore...the past month was horrible
the webmaster tools external links were updated today and they are fewer then they were...i reallly don't understand this..what's happening?
In an article I read about this exact topic, the author talks about how Google had discluded the site because something he did triggered the anti-fraud bells. It could have been something simple like a site-wide link, or something silly like that. Google has an appeal process for this, which I believe is in the webmasters tools good luck buddy!