Anyone seeing a big drop in links showing in Google webmaster tools?

[tempowebdesign]

Over the last week I have seen a big drop in links to us showing in Google Webmaster tools.  The links are still there on sites that rank well including some from National newspapers.  However the link count has dropped from over 4000 to less than 40 on approx 5-6 sites.

Ranks etc are staying the same its just a bit of a strange thing as they still show in Majestic and Open site explorer.

[tempowebdesign]

I am now showing the links in Google webmaster without downloading

[tempowebdesign]

Hi Linda

I see the same now if I download the links I see a lot more.  Still not all of them but much higher volumes that show while logged into webmaster tools.

Thanks

James

[Linda-Vassily]

It looked like I had lost about 80% of my links, but they are back now. The "Links to Your Site" summary page still shows the lower number but if I download a list of links, I see that they are there. (A couple of days ago, the downloaded list also had the lower number.)

[tempowebdesign]

Hi Andy

Thanks for the reply I had removed a load of links 2 weeks ago.  Was waiting to see if they were removed from Webmaster but not cant even check!!!

Hopefully they fix the bug soon, but I guess there is not rush for them as we should not really use it in their eyes.

Thanks

James

[tempowebdesign]

Found out a bit more about it here

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-webmaster-tools-link-count-16315.html

[Andy.Drinkwater]

There has been a lot of chatter about this recently and seems that it is a known problem. I think the only thing to do is sit tight and don't worry as many folks have the same issues.

Here is their official response: http://webmaster-forum-announcements.blogspot.ca/2013/02/known-issue-links-to-your-site-data.html

Andy