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Balli Ravi Kumar: My Back Links are Dropped from 7000 to 4000 In Webmasters, Did Google made any Update in Algorithm Recently? Please Suggest. Urgent......
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Dave Elliott: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-webmaster-tools-link-count-down-18368.html
Caroline Smith: Thanks for a link. I have the same problem and didn't understand what was it. I lost a pretty half of backlinks ;http://webcom-media.com/
kunal raval: Google test their search results by turning off linkage data as part of their algorithm. And as a result of that test, the backlinks must have pretty lost. Here is the video of Matt Cutts admitting that Google did this test: ;Is there a version of Google that excludes backlinks as a ranking factor?
kunal raval: I think that Google will use Google+ factors. Backlinks in communities, number of followers, content shared, and others
Edwin Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 00:05:23 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/my_back_links_are_dropped_from_7000_to_4000_in_webmasters +Balli Ravi Kumar
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