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"There are new reports surfacing of a bug in Google Webmaster Tools, where the links report is showing a small fraction of the links it was reporting the previous day.WebmasterWorld and a few (here is one) Google Webmaster Help threads have the complaints.  We even saw comments in some our posts with complaints.  Webmasters are reporting 80% to 60% drops in backlinks counts as reported by Google Webmaster Tools today versus yesterday.  Personally, I see exactly the same number of links from when I snapped a screen shot a few days ago.  But maybe I am unaffected or maybe the bug is rolling out more widely or maybe it is fixed already?One webmaster said:Hi just entered Google Webmaster Tools and I saw I lost today about 80% of my backlinks.Another said:I too lost 80% of my backlinks today in WMT but there was no change in traffic so hopefully this is just a temporary bug.It is not uncommon for there to be bugs with this report.  We reported a similar bug in February of this year and then several times before.I assume this is just a bug and you do not have to worry.Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld and Google Webmaster Help."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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