The incoming links have disappeared on both my active sites

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  laraowen · Member · Jun 30, 2011 at 7:24 am

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  I always used to have quite a few incoming links for both planetaryenergies.net and laraowen.com. They all disappeared a week or so ago. Any ideas?

  Thanks, Lara
  Blog url: http://planetaryenergies.wordpress.com/

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  ranh · Member · Jun 30, 2011 at 10:17 am

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  The Incoming Links section in the Dashboard shows search results from Google Blog Search. This is an external service and we have no control over the results it shows.

  If you want to see where visitors are coming to your blog from, check out the Referring Sites and Search Engines section in the Stats page. These show more reliable information about the links and search term people actually used to get to your site.

  For more information about the built-in stats feature, see here:

  Jetpack Stats

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  laraowen · Member · Jun 30, 2011 at 10:34 am

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  Thanks, but why would all incoming links suddenly disappear on both sites when there have been many links there for years?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 30, 2011 at 4:27 pm

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  Google has apparently changed (perhaps even disabled) the way we collected the links, and we’re still looking into that.

  As these links were collected via a third-party, you may find your Referrers in your Site Stats to be more accurate and valuable.