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This has been a Big PITA... We have lost over a million links in one forum thanks to the "Big Daddy" update Google had a few months back. We went from about 1,100,000 links/refs in Google down to about 19,000 right now! That really stinks... Fortunately, we still have over 1/2 a million in Yahoo but traffic has definitely taken a hit.

Has anyone else lost links in their forums in Google?

If you don't already know how to check you probably won't know unless you have just seen a decrease in traffic. You can enter the following in Google to find out how many links you have:

"site:yoursite.com"

Hope we were the only one!

David

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We noticed a drop in visitors in Mid february - was this when it happened ?
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I believe that is when it started. I noticed the major loss in links in February but it wasn't until the first of March (I think) when the traffic levels dropped. I think this is due to when Google actually updates.

Did you get your traffic levels back to previous amounts since then, Paul?
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Old 04-13-2006, 07:33 AM
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I noticed too... interesting...
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Did you get your traffic levels back to previous amounts since then, Paul?
No. They are about 60% max atm.

February 20/21 is when the level dropped - by over 50% at the time.
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Really interesting. Feb 20-21 is when we saw a huge increase of search bots activity on our forums.
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With regards to search bots... Around the time this took place we got absolutely hammered and it continued on for probably 3 weeks? It tapered off about the time the loss of link traffic actually kicked in.
My hope is that next month a lot of this re-indexing will start to show up. At least I sure hope it does!

I have heard some stories of forums that have actually gained a lot of links and traffic over this, but I think most of them did not have a lot of links to start with.
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thats absolutely right, index and links both have gone down no words yet from G
another interesting thing to notice recently was a abnormal PR increase for new sites.

some of sites started weeks ago ranked straightly from 0 to 3 or 4.
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thats absolutely right, index and links both have gone down no words yet from G
another interesting thing to notice recently was a abnormal PR increase for new sites.

some of sites started weeks ago ranked straightly from 0 to 3 or 4.
i never understood that rank thing mind explainning?
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Our site went from third place down to the 12th page back in December, and this recent update of Google's actually helped ours... we're back up to 4th place.
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