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Thanks for the robots.txt help - kind of what I figured it's just never said anything about it before.

Now for the 5000+ errors/warnings for the site map, it only allows me to see a few of them - how do I see the rest? the issue with the robot.txt problem is all i can see right now

According to webmaster tools my Sitemap contains urls which are blocked by robots.txt

Our site map is generically generated and encompasses all web pages, whether I have excluded them using the robots.txt file

As far as I am aware this has never been an issue until recently. Is this hurting my rankings and how do I fix it?

Secondly, webmaster tools says there is over 5,000 error/warnings on my site map. But site map is only 1,400 or so pages submitted. How do I see what is going on?

I haven't paid for anything - trying to stay white hat right?

But before me could be another story?

You are right, http://www.ahrefs.com states that my linking domains has gone up

thanks for your help again!

We don't do PPC, tried it before & no ROI

Pretty sure competitor doesn't either - Have yet to see them in that position

Of course I din't keep any such list of what the links were. All I have is a tracking sheet to ensure that my "Link Building" campaign was actually happening LOL This is according to Webmaster tools, links to my site:

May - 267,678

Start of Link Building Campaign

June - 290, 664

July - 226, 735

August - 152,009

Sept - 46,512

Wow! That seems to confuse me even more! My site says SE Traffic 42, competitor site SE Traffic 34.

This competitor has kicked me out of top slots within the last two years. They currently take up the top 3 listings on most of our desired keywords. So, this should mean that they rank better than us therefore more traffic than us?

Great! Thanks! The semrush seems helpful because I am in Canada and I can switch within Canada & the USA.

Now, I am such a newbie I'm not sure I understand all the info it's giving me: SE Traffic is 34.

What does this 34 represent?

Webmaster tools is telling me the links to my site has dropped by 100,000 links in one month.

Can someone please tell me what may have happened?

Is there any way to know what a competitors traffic is? My website seems to be continuously falling despite attempts to fix and just curious if it's us or an industry issue?

Thanks in advance

Thanks everyone!

I haven't paid for anything - trying to stay white hat right?

But before me could be another story?

You are right, http://www.ahrefs.com states that my linking domains has gone up

thanks for your help again!

Great! Thanks! The semrush seems helpful because I am in Canada and I can switch within Canada & the USA.

Now, I am such a newbie I'm not sure I understand all the info it's giving me: SE Traffic is 34.

What does this 34 represent?

I have made a bunch of changes thanks to the Crawl Diagnostics Tool but now need to re-run as I have lost where I started and what still needs to be done. How do I re-run the crawl diagnostic tool?