Google Search Console has a link report and that link report has become less and less useful over the years. This morning, it seems like Google pushed an update or has a bug where people now see about half the number of links they saw the previous day.
In some cases, SEOs see zero to just a handful of reported links.
There are complaints about this in the comments section here and also on Twitter.
While I see many links being reported on this site, it is still about half of what was reported a year ago. The link count went from 2.5 million links back in August 2018 and to 1.2 million links in October 2019 and then 550,000 links in 2022 and now 215,000 links in 2023! So I checked the other day and now I am showing 550,000 links. That is a 91% reduction in the links Google Search Console reported back in 2018.
Here is a screenshot from now showing 215,000 links:
Here is a screenshot from July 2022 showing 550,000 links:
October 2019 at 1.2 million links:
