Reorganizing internal vs. external backlinks in Google Webmasters Tool

The recent change in Google Webmasters Tool was made only to classify the internal & external links to help the webmasters to know the actual backlinks coming from other domains. And it won’t affect our current SERP position.

If you own (domains verified under a single webmaster account) a site that’s on a subdomain (such as property.sulekha.com) and don’t own the root domain (Sulekha.com), you’ll still only see links from URLs starting with that subdomain (property.sulekha.com)in your internal links, and all others(yellowpages.sulekha.com, foods.sulekha.com, Sulekha.com etc) will be categorized as external links. Google Webmasters Tool have made a few backend changes so that these numbers should be even more accurate for you.

Source: http://goo.gl/NWZi9

For an example:

Below is the link classification, only if you own(verify) all our sub-domains under a single webmaster account

Links for property.sulekha.com	External links	Internal links
Previously categorized as...	www.example.com/ www.example.org/stuff.html yellowpages.sulekha.com/ classifieds.sulekha.com/ sulekha.com/	property.sulekha.com/ property.sulekha.com/chennai-properties
Now categorized as...	www.example.com/ www.example.org/stuff.html	yellowpages.sulekha.com/ classifieds.sulekha.com/ sulekha.com/ property.sulekha.com/ property.sulekha.com/chennai-properties

Below is the link classification, only if you own (verify) all of your sub-domains under different webmaster account

Links for property.sulekha.com	External links	Internal links
Previously categorized as...	www.example.com/ www.example.org/stuff.html yellowpages.sulekha.com/ classifieds.sulekha.com/ sulekha.com/	property.sulekha.com/ property.sulekha.com/delhi-properties
Now categorized as...	www.example.com/ www.example.org/stuff.html yellowpages.sulekha.com/ classifieds.sulekha.com/ sulekha.com/	property.sulekha.com/ property.sulekha.com/delhi-properties