What is going on? When i left work friday i had 548 backlinks, now i com ein on monday and i only have 483????? What is going on?? Please help! This may or may not apply to you, but important that people understand. As it might be as simple as some of your links were deleted by site owners / moderators.
Keep in mind, that it's always best to try & get unique IP server (website) backlinks. The more backlinks with the same anchor text you get on the same site, the lower the value per link drops. Ideally you want most your links to be coming from different IP's, Most times, each server a host uses to host websites has a different IP assigned to it. Some hosts may put anywhere from 5 to 5,000 websites on 1 shared server (All will have the same ip).
Personally, I would much rather have 1 backlink on 10 different websites with unique ip's, than 10 backlinks on 1 website. It's all about strategy though really. I mean, STOP spam tactics NOW!!! Using spammy tactics just makes you look bad and can lead to bad reviews, spam reports to your host, Accounts being banned, posts deleted, etc... Sadly we are in a time where 7 out of every 10 posts that only have 1 line or less of text can be classified as spam.
Because of spammers, I become more and more hesitant about sharing new ideas and techniques. As I always find someone trying to manipulate and abuse them. Like anything in life, once lots of people abuse and manipulate something, the company / service being manipulated changes the way it operates to compensate & make business 10 times harder for the honest people. Sad how that works. How 1 bad apple has a tendency of rotting a whole barrel of apples.
I see forums now days that are requiring 50 to 100+ posts before a sig link is activated due to spammers. And i can't blame them for it, the spammers forced them to take action.
At any rate, I hope my input helped. Some links doesn't stick long or forever. What's important is to avoid our linkbuilding look like spammy to other webmaster. One point maybe it has something to do with those sites that you have built your link to. @scorpionagency - Excellent post.
@OP - Which tool did you use to check your backlinks??
Fluctuations do occur and they are nothing to be bothered about.
If you happen to monitor your backlinks from slower/smaller sites/tools(i won't mention any), they lagg behind as compared to the major ones.
E.g. the backlink loss you experienced may have been a week old but may have been updated in that site's database sometime between those hours after you witnessed it.
If You're monitoring your backlinks from Google's Webmaster Tools(Which is the best), or Yahoo siteexplorer.
Don't count the links from social bookmarking sites and from dynamic pages. There's no way to filter them anyway but they tend to change after that page has been crawled at a later time.
E.g.(Purely an example) If you hit the first page of 'reddit', you will receive a backlink which will be noticed and count by the search engines.
Now the bot will crawl the same page after 45 minutes and your post isn't there. Bang you've lost that backlink.
This is how stuff works and you needn't be worried about losing backlinks
Just concentrate on building more consistently. thanks, yes that did help, i can stop biting my fingernails now
Always some pages change and maybe de-indexed and of course you loss your backlinks. Always having some quality backlinks from quality websites is better than thousands of low quality backlinks. Usually your backlinks from quality websites will not be deleted or de-indexed. So do good work to get good result
I noticed a few, but my site is so popular notice a big difference but it seems to reverse the decline, we do not get clicks on your site Could be not safe place if you have the answers.
Keep in mind, that it's always best to try & get unique IP server (website) backlinks. The more backlinks with the same anchor text you get on the same site, the lower the value per link drops. Ideally you want most your links to be coming from different IP's, Most times, each server a host uses to host websites has a different IP assigned to it. Some hosts may put anywhere from 5 to 5,000 websites on 1 shared server (All will have the same ip).
Personally, I would much rather have 1 backlink on 10 different websites with unique ip's, than 10 backlinks on 1 website. It's all about strategy though really. I mean, STOP spam tactics NOW!!! Using spammy tactics just makes you look bad and can lead to bad reviews, spam reports to your host, Accounts being banned, posts deleted, etc... Sadly we are in a time where 7 out of every 10 posts that only have 1 line or less of text can be classified as spam.
Because of spammers, I become more and more hesitant about sharing new ideas and techniques. As I always find someone trying to manipulate and abuse them. Like anything in life, once lots of people abuse and manipulate something, the company / service being manipulated changes the way it operates to compensate & make business 10 times harder for the honest people. Sad how that works. How 1 bad apple has a tendency of rotting a whole barrel of apples.
I see forums now days that are requiring 50 to 100+ posts before a sig link is activated due to spammers. And i can't blame them for it, the spammers forced them to take action.
At any rate, I hope my input helped. Some links doesn't stick long or forever. What's important is to avoid our linkbuilding look like spammy to other webmaster. One point maybe it has something to do with those sites that you have built your link to. @scorpionagency - Excellent post.
@OP - Which tool did you use to check your backlinks??
Fluctuations do occur and they are nothing to be bothered about.
If you happen to monitor your backlinks from slower/smaller sites/tools(i won't mention any), they lagg behind as compared to the major ones.
E.g. the backlink loss you experienced may have been a week old but may have been updated in that site's database sometime between those hours after you witnessed it.
If You're monitoring your backlinks from Google's Webmaster Tools(Which is the best), or Yahoo siteexplorer.
Don't count the links from social bookmarking sites and from dynamic pages. There's no way to filter them anyway but they tend to change after that page has been crawled at a later time.
E.g.(Purely an example) If you hit the first page of 'reddit', you will receive a backlink which will be noticed and count by the search engines.
Now the bot will crawl the same page after 45 minutes and your post isn't there. Bang you've lost that backlink.
This is how stuff works and you needn't be worried about losing backlinks
Just concentrate on building more consistently. thanks, yes that did help, i can stop biting my fingernails now