Google Webmaster Tools Index dropped to Zero [closed]

Posted by Brian Anderson on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Brian Anderson
Published on 2012-11-15T16:11:07Z Indexed on 2012/11/15 17:24 UTC
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Earlier this year I rebuilt my website using ZenCart. Immediately I saw a drop in index status from 59 to 0. I then signed up for Google Webmaster Tools and noticed the Index status took a dramatic drop and has never recovered. I have worked to add content and I know I am not done, but have not seen any recovery of this index since.

What confuses me is when I look at the sitemap status under Optimization it shows me there are 1239 submitted and 1127 pages indexed.

Most of my pages have fallen off page one for relevant search terms and some are as far back as page 7 or 8 where they used to be on the first page. I have made some changes in the past week to robots.txt and sitemap.xml, but have not seen any improvements. Can anyone tell me what might be going on here? My website is andersonpens.net.

Thanks! Brian

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