A major news publisher from Croatia covered an Article from my news blog.
I remember having a backlink counted in SC from that publisher, which is no more to be found.
But i see they still have the story online with a facebook widget from my facebook page embedded.
Maybe they had more linked to my page and removed it, but not sure. Article is from 2016.
Are links from social media widgets counted, or not anymore? What could explain the lost link in SC?
@goranmajic Search Console doesn't list all links that Google knows about, and of the links that Search Console shows, not all of them are seen as being useful for search signals (eg, it also lists nofollow links). So I wouldn't worry about links not popping up there.
In terms of social media widgets, my guess is most of these are nofollow and/or uncrawlable, so while they might be links, it's more about users using them than search engines "forwarding signals."
@johnmu Thanx for your time. It was there for years. They probably linked in additional way but removed it for some reasons. Happens when publisher change layouts or archive old articles. Thinking of reactivating the blog, didn't do much since then. Thank you!
@goranmajic I think that's pretty common, especially for news sites. A mention in an article is prominent when it first comes out (maybe even linked from the homepage), and over time the article is less & less visible, perhaps even shifting into an archive section.
@johnmu yes, saw that a lot. I also saw that more links are lost. Most of them from the top 5 publishers. I guess it's time for new stories on my blog. 
@goranmajic Possibly :). The web evolves, and what once was popular or visibly linked, can become more of a footnote over time. Sometimes it's worth working on a piece to keep it useful, sometimes it's worth moving on and focusing your time on something new. There's no single right answer for any of this :-).
@johnmu My goal with this blog was to fill a journalistic hole in Germany where around up to 450.000 people live with a Croatian background. The same time I wanted a small project, because I worked for large publishers, where i couldn't control the content going online. So to not lose contact with SEO reality i build a journalistic 'ship in a bottle'... But now with children, you think twice about new hobbies
