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Oct 29, 2026 - 7:51 am

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Google does not show all links, and not all spammy links, within the Search Console links report. This is not new, Google has long said that the link report only shows a sampling of links . In fact, Google even shows disavowed links in the link report.

John Mueller from Google recently responded to a question about this on Reddit where the SEO was concerned about his site accumulating spammy links daily and while Semrush reports show the spammy links, Search Console does not. He asked if he should care.

John Mueller replied, "I wouldn't anchor on whether Search Console shows them, but if these are random spammy links on the web, I'd just ignore them."

Here is that thread:

This means that just because Search Console does not show the spammy links, it doesn't mean that they are not known by Google.…