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age blocked by robots.txt . The SEO guy I hired says I just need more back links however the indexed pages on Google dropped over 5x just after he started doing work on the site. Is he talking garbage?

I got someone to design me an Ecwid store which all went fine. I started adding items onto it and google was slowly indexing these. I then hired someone to do the SEO. They starting doing their work and over night the number of indexed pages fell from 30 indexed and 28 not indexed to 6 indexed and 53 not indexed. I have now added more product pages so there are over 150 pages on the site however no change to the pages Google has indexed.

They are telling me I just need to buy back links from them and wait however when I run URL checks in Google Search Console it is telling me “Page cannot be crawled: Blocked by robots.txt”. I’m using Ecwid. What am I supposed to do / believe?

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