Disavow tool removed all our links from webmaster tools
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We recently used the Google Disavow tool to remove 200 bad links but Google has nearly removed all our links from webmaster tools from over 2000+ we only have 150 now!
Has anyone had the same problem? Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Paul
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A bunch of forums are talking about it. Here's a post mentioning several of the places people are talking about it: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-webmaster-tools-link-count-16315.html
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Brilliant thanks Tom
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Thanks Abdul much appreciated.
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Good old Google - they had this same problem a few weeks back as well
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Abdul is right, looks as though WMT is having a bit of a hiccup today. Here's a link to (one of) the discussions going on in the products forum. Looks as though Google is aware of the problem. My guess is that it might have something to do with the Google PageRank update.
Furthermore, as far as I am aware, Google does not remove any disavowed links from your WMT report. Source A, Source B. Think the link has to be physically removed from the site in order for WMT to stop reporting it, even then it may take a long time.
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Google webmaster tool is showing less link data today. you can google this news. so just relax and wait for the proper update regarding this issue.
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Probably unrelated, but did you get a link warning in Webmaster Tools and that is what prompted the disavow?
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Hi Andy,
Thanks for your comments.
We only put the 200 links that we wanted to remove in the disavow. We didn't include the *.site.com.
This is very strange.
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It depends really - did you put in 200 exclusive pages, or did you say remove everything from *.site.com (which would remove all links from all pages on a domain)?
I have only had to do 2 disavow's but never had more links removed than were recommended.
Andy
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