Google Search Console Links Report With Large Change In Links?

Dec 9, 2024 - 7:41 am 2 by

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Google Search Console may have made a big update to its link counts. I am not sure how widespread this is, and I really don't not track the link count often. But I have reported on link counts changing here before and I am seeing a large change from June to now.

Vijay Chauhan notified me of this change on X where he posted, "Has anyone noticed any drastic decline or increase in External/Internal links numbers in the GSC report?"

So I checked, and in June 2024, after Google fixed an issue with the Search Console links report from May, I had 351,000+ links:

Google Links Report Fixed 1717666816

Now I am seeing almost 490,000 links:

Gsc Link Count Updated

That is a 40% increase in links being reported by Search Console in several months.

Here is what it was on May 27, 2024:

Google Search Console Links

Here is a screenshot from June 2023 showing 215,000 links:

Google Links Report 2023

Here is a screenshot from July 2022 showing 550,000 links:

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October 2019 at 1.2 million links:

Gsc Link Count Drop

August 2018 at 2.5 million links:

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Are you all seeing big changes in links reported by Google Search Console?

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