Hello! I have been doing some link building for my website which is 4 months old. Everything was looking great at the end of the first two months, Altavista.com and Alltheweb.com showed me a total of 460 incoming links to my site whenever I searched for: link:www.mysite.com I continued with my link building but now instead of increasing my links they have been decreasing in number and from 460 today Altavista.com and Alltheweb.com show me only 200 links. I am afraid to end up with 0 links even though I should have 2000 by now… Is this normal?
decreasing so many number of links at one time is not normal.. but I suggest try to check your links with some other tool...
If your links were on forums and low quality websites and blogs; the posts or blogs have most likely been deleted and thus you are seeing a reduction in links. Where did you build your links?
Not it will not happen... check you back links whether its existing or not. Some time the linked sites not indexed properly the link may loose....its natural..