Huge Decline in Links
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Good Morning Everyone,
Looking for some feedback as to why all of my Backlink metrics might be way down (as well as rankings)... Please see the details below that show some of the metrics from MOZ reports from August and from October.
Does anyone know why these metrics are all so down? We have not done any link removal exercises or anything that would cause this drop --- please let me know if there is any insight any of you have as to what is the reason for this drop.
Thanks
Linking C Blocks
August 3: 124
October 14: 23
External Followed Links
August 3: 4486
October 14: 1558
Total External Links
August 3: 4795
October 14: 1680
Total Links
August 3: 21338
October 14: 17809
Followed Linking Root Domains
August 3: 323
October 14: 116
Total Linking Root Domains
August 3: 442
October 14: 143
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It's also possible that the drop reflects the difficulties we had with the past index. Rand explained a bit more in this thread:
https://moz.com/community/q/10-14-mozscape-index-update-details
The next index is looking to be on track for mid-November.
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Hi there,
As we see, you have lost around 300 domains which are linking to you...so every metrics above "Total Linking Root Domains" is quite logical. You should search which those domains are? Maybe you had backlinks in some RSS domains or so.
As I know, unfortunately Moz Open Explorer don't have an option for users to see their lost backlinks. Search the web, there are some similar services that have this option.
Cheers,
Milan
P.S.
Be aware that you have bad ratio between "Linking C Blocks" and "Total Linking Root Domains" -> 23/143
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Hi Rebecca,
I'm unsure of what links have been lost... All i know is that my weekly rankings report showed a big drop in many keywords and then when i started to study the MOZ analytics report i found all of the link metrics that i provided in the original post.
Is there a way to find out what links have gone missing?
Thanks!
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Are the links you're losing ones you actually care about or are they junk links that didn't matter anyway?
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