Webmaster Tools Links To Your Site

[babski]

I logged onto webmaster tools today for my site and the section 'Links to Your Site' is showing no data. Also if I search using link:babskibaby.com it only shows 1 link. My site had been showing 500+ links previously.

Does anyone know why this is?

[SanketPatel]

Yes Anthony, Once I have contacted ahref support because of link difference in OSE and Ahref.com. They told, they provide more fresh data.

[anthonydnelson]

Hi SanketPatel-

Open Site Explorer is my favorite backlink checker as well, but ahrefs usually has a much fresher index. OSE updates approximately once each month with ambitions to do so more frequent.

So if something dramatic happened a few days ago (like 100 lost links), ahrefs would be the quickest place to diagnose the problem. Compared to waiting another 20 days or whatever for the OSE index to update.

[SanketPatel]

Thanks for adding, I only prefer opensiteexplorer for backlink analysis. See the total number of links counts. It means opensiteexplorer has crawled more pages.

[nmiller]

This seems inline with what ahref's is reporting, 41 linking root domains with 201 backlinks.

ahref's report here:

https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/subdomains/babskibaby.com

[SanketPatel]

As per Opensiteexplorer, you have 52 linking root domains and total 384 Links. You can checkout more links here :

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.babskibaby.com%2F

[anthonydnelson]

I can't look at your GWT data, so I'm not exactly sure what is going on there. I suspect if you give it a day that data will be back in there.

I can confirm that the link:domain.com query is 99% useless and is not an accurate measurement of anything.

Use ahrefs.com/majestic and opensiteexplorer to check your backlinks. I'm sure they are still there.

Data/Tools are not reliable 100% of the time. Focus on your referral and search engine traffic instead of overall link numbers.