Hi David,

Thanks for the reply. Yes, we did update the header and footer. I'm curious – why would that cause me to loose that many backlinks?

I didn't loose any points in my DA score nor drop in my keyword rankings, so that's a good thing. But loosing 1.1K backlinks is never a good thing to see.

Thanks! 
Brandon

We had a lot of external links (2.5K, which was good compared to our competition), but in the last few weeks, it dropped 1.1K. I obviously did something wrong. What are the causes of such a dramatic drop like that?

Questions, suggestions, ideas, anything is welcome at this point.

Thanks!