Why did my Google links disappear after a redesign?

Posted by Bill on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Bill
Published on 2011-01-08T13:16:49Z Indexed on 2011/01/08 13:58 UTC
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I recently did a complete redesign of my site. As soon as Google picked up the changes (I could tell because the excerpt in the search results was brought up to date), I noticed that my traffic slowed by about 30%.

I started to investigate, ran a "link:" query on my site and saw only two links there. I know there are many more links to my site, mostly from reputable sources like magazines and large blogs. Why aren't these links showing up anymore? There's nothing even remotely spammy about my site, so I don't see why there would be weirdness going on.

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