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March 17, 2008

Google Webmaster Tools External Links Report Showing 0 Links

The Google Webmaster Tools "external links" report is buggy over the weekend. The tool is not showing any backlinks anymore for, I believe, any site.

For example, here are the non-existent backlinks for the Search Engine Roundtable:

Google External Links Error

There are dozens of reports from webmasters worrying if Google banned them or not. Threads at DigitalPoint Forums and Google Groups both have concerned webmasters discussion the issue.

The issue started Sunday morning or early afternoon and is still an issue at the time I write this. Hopefully it will be fixed shortly.

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums and Google Groups.

Now Fixed: At about 3pm (EST), it has now been fixed. JohnMu, a Google Webmaster Trends Analysts posted below and I confirmed it is now fixed.



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I experience another kind of problem with Google Webmaster Tool. I could not verify my ownership with google webmaster tool!!!!
Its really confusing....

 

Posted by Mercy at March 17, 2008 09:44

I have same prob with Gogole webmaster tool, and one more thing which confuses me a lot. I could not verify my ownership with google webmaster tool(I have tried both File uploading and Meta tag uploading) Can anyone experience this?

 

Posted by Mercy at March 17, 2008 09:49

We're working on finding the missing links. Sorry for the confusion & thanks for your patience.

Mercy, if you are having trouble with verification, it would be great if you could post in our Webmaster Help groups at http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Tools/ - please include your URL so that the people there (or one of the Googlers) can help you to debug the issue. Thanks!

 

Posted by JohnMu at March 17, 2008 13:17

Just a quick update -- the links should be visible again :-). Let us know in the groups if you still see issues with it. Thanks!

 

Posted by JohnMu at March 17, 2008 14:56

Confirmed, posted an update to the GG thread and updated this post. Thanks John!

 

Posted by Barry Schwartz at March 17, 2008 15:06

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