Earlier this week, we reported on some declines within the variety of hyperlinks reported within the Google Search Console hyperlinks report. Nicely, it acquired lots worse this morning, and now everyone seems to be seeing big declines within the hyperlink report.
I’m glad I captured a screenshot of my hyperlink rely that day as a result of at present it’s a lot much less. Actually, it’s about 40% hyperlinks being reported from just some days in the past. I went from 287,000 hyperlinks to 177,000 hyperlinks.
Here’s what I see now:
Here’s what I noticed on May 27, 2024:
Listed below are among the complaints on-line:
I do not know if anybody is … GSC reviews far too few hyperlinks. Final week the quantity (inner hyperlinks) was 13x larger. Homepage hyperlinks are utterly lacking. #SEO @SEO_Suedwest @rustybrick @JohnMu @danielwaisberg @googlesearchc pic.twitter.com/UtitQcdm3T
— Christian Radny (@ChrisRadny) May 30, 2024
Is there a bug in Search Console hyperlink report? 👀
Many web sites are seeing an enormous drop in backlinks.
And a few zero additionally✌️@rustybrick @JohnMu #SEO @googlesearchc pic.twitter.com/lM8WB9tsKh— Abhishek Ghoniya (@abhiicheck) May 30, 2024
90% of our backlinks are gone at present on a number of web sites. One other difficulty?
— Goddess Dilek (@Evilworld1234) May 30, 2024
There are additionally complaints within the feedback space right here and within the boards.
Google has traditionally proven fewer and fewer hyperlinks over time.
Here’s a screenshot from June 2023 exhibiting 215,000 hyperlinks:
Here’s a screenshot from July 2022 exhibiting 550,000 hyperlinks:
October 2019 at 1.2 million hyperlinks:
August 2018 at 2.5 million hyperlinks:
Did you discover a drop in hyperlinks on this report? If that’s the case, how unhealthy?
Does it even matter anyway? 🙂
Discussion board dialogue at WebmasterWorld and Google Webmaster Help Forums.
