Links and index missing from Google Webmaster Tools!
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I've been using a wordpress blog and using google analytics and webmaster tools. I'd never done very much optimizing of my site, my strategy had always been to just keep writing relevant posts and let google do the rest. At some point I installed a SEO plugin to wordpress and did a tiny amount of tweaking, but I noticed that in my webmaster tools page, all my "links to this site" links are gone! My site map says 42 pages submitted, 42 pages indexed, but all the links that I've built over the past few years are missing, and I also notice that I can't find my main landing page in the index anymore. I know there are indexed sites out there that link to me, but they aren't being reflected anymore. Did I anger google by using SEO plugins within wordpress? I'm fairly certain I wasn't doing anything sketchy.
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No, I only have one. At one point, I was using www. but I later did a change-of-address to the non-www version. I only have the non-www verified now.
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I hope I don't sound like a broken record, since I just suggested this in another question, but do you have both the www and non-www version verified in Google Webmaster Tools? If there are links to the www version and you only have the non-www version verified, that may be a reason you're not seeing everything.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=96568#2
In part: "If you are seeing no data for the site www.example.com, it may be because you have added your site using http://example.com. To Google, these are entirely different sites. If you feel like you're missing some data, add both the www and the non-www version of your domain to your Webmaster Tools account. Take a look at the data for both sites."
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