» What Happened to All My Backlinks?

This morning I decided to go check the backlinks for a clients’ site and to my surprise their backlinks had dwindled from over 600 to 78 and most importantly their Yahoo Directory & DMOZ listings were gone also… I checked in Google Webmaster Tools and via the Google Toolbar for Firefox.

So what happened to all the backlinks?  After doing a little more investigating I found a thread on the Digital Point Forum stating that the new version of Google Webmaster Tools would have all my backwords links. So I went to my GMT account.. clicked the  “Check out our new look” made my way over to links are and there they were. All of them including the Yahoo! and DMOZ backlinks as well.

So if you using the link:www.domain.com command or the old version of webmaster tools you are most likely seeing the same thing I saw. So go check out the new version of Google Webmaster Tools and you’ll likely find your missing backlinks over there.