diappearing backlinks

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I understand backlink fluctuations are normal thing. I added a quite a few backlinks everyday small amounts 10-20 links for moths.

I am seeing my backlinks disappearing instead of increasing at all. I understand, some new links may take time to show up, even if pinged but what about already established links? It is not 1-5, it is drop of 100s, hence I am bit concerned.

Edited: I am using Yahoo Site Explorer to find backlinks.
These links are from blog commenting, article marketing, RSS feed. I did use one auto Ping site to ping my sites a few days ago. Other than that nothing is new, nothing spammy or backlink services used, all done by me. (unless someone doing something behind my back)
#search engine optimization #backlinks #diappearing
  • More details would probably be useful as to whether these are links no longer reported by search engines, a backlink research tool or have you actually visited the link pages?

    Are these spammy links, like forum profiles that are subject to purging?
  • You forgot to tell us one important piece of information. How are you determining your number of backlinks? Are you looking in Google? Yahoo? Using Market Samurai? Google Webmaster Tools? Another tool?

    It may not be your backlinks disappearing as much as the way the tool is reporting backlinks. As an example, you might have 100's of backlinks you can manually verify, but Google only reports a handful of them. Why? Because they want to. It helps hide how their algorithm works, avoids webmasters encroaching on other webmasters techniques, etc..

    I know Market Samurai a short time ago changed how they sourced Back Links to Page information due to a major change by Yahoo.
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    • Webex, Barry,

      I added above in edit section. Yahoo to find my links and nothing spammy. I do not check my backlinks everyday also, so I am not sure when links started disappearing, does it happen to any of you?
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  • Petevamp,

    Thanks a lot. I do not think I have used wonderwheel, where should I look for it?

    Frankrock,

    I know what backlink is, that was not the question.
  • there are many things that could happen to result this. Not all backlinks are going to stick. Sometimes some linls can get lost and after some time they come back

    This is like dancing
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    • If some of those links were from the blog networks (some link packages use them) they sometimes tend to disappear. Here's why, they get automatically pinged when they get posted on the homepage, but soon scroll off and eventually the searchengines will recognize that the link no longer exists and it'll disappear eventually. I had that happen with a popular blog network, they appeared soon after posting the article, but when I went back to check a few months later most were gone, most were homepage links at the time they were displaying.
  • Just as an adon if you use the Google webmaster tool for your own site, it will show a lot more links. I have a site that I built a lot of links for, yahoo search tool, showed only 3, Google webmaster showed 700 - and my site was ranking. hop this helps
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    • Thank you drvosjeca, the cableguy and 32paul52,
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    diappearing backlinks

    I understand backlink fluctuations are normal thing. I added a quite a few backlinks everyday small amounts 10-20 links for moths. I am seeing my backlinks disappearing instead of increasing at all. I understand, some new links may take time to show up, even if pinged but what about already established links? It is not 1-5, it is drop of 100s, hence I am bit concerned.