Loosing Google backlinks

[angelmre2005]

I worked hard getting incoming backlinks to my site and I'm happy with my progress. Though, slowly, but I'm getting results.

Suddenly, when I checked Google, I've lost 70% of my backlinks. I don't know why or what happened.

 

[Rob_TID]

Google does not report backlinks accurately.

Try Yahoo.

 

[Linda Buquet]

Sorry to hear. I don't keep track of backlinks, guess I should but I always naturally get plenty and don't work at it any more.

However I DID just lose PR on the main site and blog which have been at 5 forever. Now dropped to 4 which concerns me because I have not done anything different.

Did you lose PR too or just links?

 

[Mousee]

Don't worry about Google backlinks. most specialists I'v contacted regarding this question said that Yahoo is the best for links checking.

 

[hijinks]

Use Yahoo. Google is never right.

 

[toptenws]

Sorry to hear. I don't keep track of backlinks, guess I should but I always naturally get plenty and don't work at it any more.

However I DID just lose PR on the main site and blog which have been at 5 forever. Now dropped to 4 which concerns me because I have not done anything different.

Did you lose PR too or just links?

Linda,
That's great that you get plenty of backlinks naturally, but for those who don't and have to monitor their SEO efforts most definitely should. The best way to check your link profile is to use yahoo site explorer. Google devalues your link building efforts if you don't frequently change your anchor text. Using the same keyword to link to your site may start to look spammy once you start building a large number of links.

Re: your loss of PR
Google rolls out with a PR update every so often and updates to their algorithm usually devalue a lot of the links that are pointed to your site. (they're trying to filter out paid and automatically generated links)

 

[pumps]

Google will not show all backlinks. Use yahoo

 

[Karl18]

I mostly rely on Google.

But now experience Yahoo also.

 

[taylor28]

I just wanted to know how to check backlinks in yahoo. I too only check backlinks at google.

 

[Larwee]

taylor28, you can do these:

linkdomain:www.yoursite.com

You can use the Yahoo Site Explorer Site Explorer - Yahoo! Site Explorer

 

[taylor28]

Thank you sir I will check on that.