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Wow, I just spent some time trying to figure the footer links out and it is just a mess! I don't understand what Magento is trying to do but it sure isn't working. Thank you for pointing that out.

Thanks Lynn,

I see it now. I am not sure how to direct this to the actual image in Magento. I guess I have some investigating/research to do.

Hi Lynn,

At the time the layout hadn't been changed a bit. Most all of our competitors have stayed put and we seem to be the only one effected.

I have checked the sitemap XML but don't see where they are all pointing to the 404 page. Can you direct me to how you found that.

Again, thank you for your help!

Hi Lynn,

Thank you for the response. I personally don't think any of the pages I have blocked would really affect ranking but it was nearly immediate as soon as I uploaded the first one back in early January.

I don't believe I have ever submitted an image sitemap so I will be sure to do it.

I would really like to find a source for our ranking drop as it is driving me crazy. I fear I am missing something painfully obvious as I have looked at this site so much I may be over looking it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Everyone,

We use Magento CMS for our site and we are having a frustrating time resolving our SEO issues. The site was very poorly managed in years past and in the past year I have redesigned and cleaned up many things. However we are recently having trouble with indexing and keyword ranking.

Issue #1:

Our main keyword ranking has dropped quite a bit while our other less important keywords have steadily risen. I suspect a very strict robots.txt implemented back in early January may have been the culprit. We have since been modifying it with out much luck. Many of our pages are still blocked.

12/05/12 : ranked 12th

1/09/13: ranked 19th

1/16/13: ranked 35th

Now: out of top 50 (52nd)

Issue #2:

Not a single image is being indexed. We are 0 for 582 according to Webmaster tools. Not sure why...

Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated as I have great determination and interest in learning the correct way to fix/do this.

Site: www.scojo.com

Thanks