{"id":8980,"date":"2026-05-30T07:37:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=8980"},"modified":"2026-05-30T07:37:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:37:44","slug":"google-search-console-links-report-showing-old-data-after-breaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=8980","title":{"rendered":"Google Search Console links report showing old data after breaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div id=\"articleContent\" itemprop=\"articlebody\"> <div class=\"bialty-container\"> <p>On Thursday, the Google Search Console link report broke. For many it showed no links at all, and for others, it showed a drop of almost 90% of the links that Google reported they had a week prior.<\/p> <p>Google confirmed the issue and decided to show old link data, while it works on fixing the issue.<\/p> <p><strong>What Google said. <\/strong>John Mueller from Google initially said:<\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li>\u201cThanks for the heads-up, Barry. We\u2019ll take a look to see if there\u2019s anything unexpected happening (given the long weekends it might take a bit of time).\u201d<\/li> <\/ul> <p>Then on Saturday, the links appeared to return, but it was just a band-aid. John Mueller wrote:<\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li>\u201cThey\u2019re working on resolving the actual issue and in the meantime switched back to the data from the week before.\u201d<\/li> <\/ul> <p><strong>Old data. <\/strong>So for now, if you go to your link report in Google Search Console, it should be showing old data. Please keep that in mind, if you are using this data for client or stakeholder reporting.<\/p> <p><strong>What the bug looked like. <\/strong>Like I said, many saw zero links in that report, while others saw huge drops of over 85% of their links going missing. Here is a screenshot of the report showing zero links:<\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/> <p><strong>Why we care. <\/strong>Again, if you are using this link report for client or stakeholder report, it is important to know that the data is not updated. If you pulled in data on Thursday, it might be wrong. <\/p> <p>Google is working on fixing the issue, until then, the report will be showing data from weeks ago.<\/p> <\/div> <hr\/> <p class=\"article-disclosure\"> <em>Search Engine Land is owned by Semrush. We remain committed to providing high-quality coverage of marketing topics. Unless otherwise noted, this page\u2019s content was written by either an employee or a paid contractor of Semrush Inc.<\/em> <\/p> <hr\/> <div class=\"author-about py-4\"> <div class=\"card bg-light\"> <div class=\"card-body p-2 clearfix\"> <div class=\"authorImage float-start me-3 mb-2\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid rounded avatar-border flex-shrink-0\" src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2025\/05\/1630496745425.jpeg.webp\" alt=\"Barry Schwartz\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" title=\"Google Search Console links report showing old data after breaking\u63d2\u56fe\" \/> <\/div> <div class=\"author-body\"> <!-- keep your existing author-name markup exactly as it was --><\/p> <div id=\"authorBio-251\" class=\"author-desc\"> Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.<\/p> <p>In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the &#8220;US Search Personality Of The Year,&#8221; you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O&#8217;Clock.<\/p> <p>Barry can be followed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustybrick\/\">on X here<\/a>\u00a0and you can learn more about\u00a0Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site. <\/p> <\/div><\/div> <\/p><\/div> <\/p><\/div> <\/div> <p> <!-- START SIDEBAR LOWER SPACE --><\/p> <p><!-- END SIDEBAR LOWER SPACE --><\/p><\/div> <p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>News#Google #Search #Console #links #report #showing #data #breaking1780097864<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, the Google Search Console link report broke. 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