Notice backlinks is dropping

lawless87 Active Member

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Has anyone notice a stead drop in there backlinks from google? My site when from 235 to 109.

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phinelinda Well-Known Member

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Did you notice this from your webmaster tools or the search engine command parameter?

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Brandon Sheley Illustrious Member

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#3

nope, none of our backlinks are droping

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dpking Peon

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Everything fine at our end !!

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ranjuse Banned

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#5

Ya Sure backlinks are droping ... I experienced yestday

ranjuse, Mar 26, 2008 IP

SEOBusiness Well-Known Member

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Backlinks for one of my site dropped from 404 to 255

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Yeah I have been noticing drop in back links for some of my sites but their pr hasn't affected by link drop

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angilina Notable Member

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Mine increased from 8000 to 9800

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My guess is that you are just seeing this in the "link:" query.

As far as I know, Google doesn't really "Drop" backlinks from its index. However, the sample that it reports has been known the change periodically. I wouldn't be too concerned about it.

Best,
Sam

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Back links are not dropped for my 4 blogs.

Thanks...

ashisharora_83, Mar 27, 2008 IP

aninfo Well-Known Member

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I think back links of my sites are increasing.

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pdfmania Peon

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#12

I have the same experience.. some from directory and blog comments i think this is because they use noFollow atribut on external links

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Sphinks Active Member

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mine dropped from 38000 to 19000...in webmaster tools!

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chaitanya.seo Banned

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#14

Google does not shows exact amount of back links for your websites.
Better to check in webmaster tools.

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#15

Opps..Increase backlinks from 8 to 11 to one of my friend blog It was 8 before a month ago...

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I didn't notice anything

Powerweb, Mar 27, 2008 IP

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scabal70 said: ↑

My guess is that you are just seeing this in the "link:" query.

As far as I know, Google doesn't really "Drop" backlinks from its index. However, the sample that it reports has been known the change periodically. I wouldn't be too concerned about it.

Best,
Sam
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Actually links degrade over time and ultimately can be lost. This is why a proper temporal link building program is necessary. Don't play all your cards at once. It is much better to have a steady stream comming in.

Google's temporal ranking factors look at;

v document inception dates;
v document content updates/changes;
v query analysis;
v link-based criteria;
v anchor text;
v traffic;
v user behavior;
v domain-related information;
v ranking history;
v user maintained/generated data (e.g., bookmarks and/or favorites);
v unique words, bigrams, and phrases in anchor text;
v linkage of independent peers;
v and/or document topics. Search engine may obtain one, or a combination, of these kinds of history data.
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the following is part of a Google Patent (to give you an idea how they look at things....

In one implementation, the link-based factors may relate to the dates that new links appear to a document and that existing links disappear. The appearance date of a link may be the first date that search engine 125 finds the link or the date of the document that contains the link (e.g., the date that the document was found with the link or the date that it was last updated). The disappearance date of a link may be the first date that the document containing the link either dropped the link or disappeared itself.

These dates may be determined by search engine 125 during a crawl or index update operation. Using this date as a reference, search engine 125 may then monitor the time-varying behavior of links to the document, such as

v when links appear or disappear,
v the rate at which links appear or disappear over time,
v how many links appear or disappear during a given time period,
v whether there is trend toward appearance of new links versus disappearance of existing links to the document, etc.

Using the time-varying behavior of links to (and/or from) a document, search engine 125 may score the document accordingly.

For example, a downward trend in the number or rate of new links (e.g., based on a comparison of the number or rate of new links in a recent time period versus an older time period) over time could signal to search engine 125 that a document is stale, in which case search engine 125 may decrease the document's score. Conversely, an upward trend may signal a â€œfreshâ€ document (e.g., a document whose content is freshâ€”recently created or updated) that might be considered more relevant, depending on the particular situation and implementation.

By analyzing the change in the number or rate of increase/decrease of back links to a document (or page) over time, search engine 125 may derive a valuable signal of how fresh the document is. For example, if such analysis is reflected by a curve that is dropping off, this may signal that the document may be stale (e.g., no longer updated, diminished in importance, superceded by another document, etc.).

According to one implementation, the analysis may depend on the number of new links to a document. For example, search engine 125 may monitor the number of new links to a document in the last n days compared to the number of new links since the document was first found. Alternatively, search engine 125 may determine the oldest age of the most recent y % of links compared to the age of the first link found.

For the purpose of illustration,

consider y=10 and two documents (web sites in this example) that were both first found 100 days ago.

For the first site, 10% of the links were found less than 10 days ago,
while for the second site 0% of the links were found less than 10 days ago (in other words, they were all found earlier).

In this case, the metric results in 0.1 for site A and 0 for site B. The metric may be scaled appropriately. In another exemplary implementation, the metric may be modified by performing a relatively more detailed analysis of the distribution of link dates. For example, models may be built that predict if a particular distribution signifies a particular type of site (e.g., a site that is no longer updated, increasing or decreasing in popularity, superceded, etc.).
According to another implementation, the analysis may depend on weights assigned to the links. In this case, each link may be weighted by a function that increases with the freshness of the link. The freshness of a link may be determined by

v the date of appearance/change of the link,
v the date of appearance/change of anchor text associated with the link,
v date of appearance/change of the document containing the link.

The date of appearance/change of the document containing a link may be a better indicator of the freshness of the link based on the theory that a good link may go unchanged when a document gets updated if it is still relevant and good. In order to not update every link's freshness from a minor edit of a tiny unrelated part of a document, each updated document may be tested for significant changes (e.g., changes to a large portion of the document or changes to many different portions of the document) and a link's freshness may be updated (or not updated) accordingly.
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So, a link is not simply a link... there are temporal factors that can come into play as far as how they are treated. Now as pages get de-indexed, stuck in supplemental hell, pages being taken down/modified by webmasters and so on can come into play. We also can see that the valuation of some links will also change over time as well.

All links are not equal....

...some things to think about....

thegypsy, Mar 27, 2008 IP

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I have been constantly adding backlinks so I have not noticed a drop in my backlinks. I'm not sure if a drop in backlinks is a cause for concern it all depends on whether or not your rankings are the same in the serp?

kingofsanda, Mar 27, 2008 IP