About two weeks ago, Google updated the Webmaster Tools link reports to provide some more actionable data and cleaner interfaces. But it left out a key metric for some SEOs, the metric of “total links.”

Late Friday, Google announced in a Google Webmaster Help thread that they added it back. Jonathan Simon of Google said:

So now if you go to your link reports, you should see at the top, “Total links.” Here is a picture from this site:

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.