Google removing back links

[rogerdan]

Did anyone encounter this? A lot of my backlinks have been removed.
Strange.

[ResaleBroker]

Many others have reported the same. No answers just speculation.

[VRI]

Googles back link display has been totally worthless (random display, no rhyme or reason) for about three months now.

[2savvy]

Googles display of backlinks go up and down like a yo-yo but it seems like I do get more traffic when I have a greater number of back links showing.

[steve5jack]

I've been told the link: command now only shows a 'sampling' of backlinks and is not considered complete.

I have a site with a PR of 4 that used to show 2 backlinks from PR4+ sites (those are the only links to my site). A couple of months ago, those links no longer showed up with link:, however they still do link to my site AND my site still has a PR of 4.

[webmaster]

Google only showing a sampleset is nothing new, they have always only shown a representation of your true count

[Joesheikh]

Googles display of backlinks go up and down like a yo-yo but

Very true. I dont think they return all the backlinks sometimes when you ask for them. Im sure they are there anyways so there isnt anything to be worried about.

[Malok]

Hi,
i am also trying to find it out and think google trying to show only the back links from the site have good PR or google crawl there sites on which we are submitting our links. and the page does not have any activity or any visit after the last crawl google is deleting from back link cache.

Your first post - and you decide to bump a 3+ year old thread?

[Northern_IL]

At least you know the "search" feature is working on REW.

[36towns]

This thread is probably older than Google's link: command