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I'm trying to rank for several specific words in my industry. I've noticed that many of the pages I'm trying to rank for the specific words, the main image of the page is being ranked. So my question is should I still try to rank my page even though the image is ranking as the first image displayed in the google results. Will this count against me by Google if I do? Or should I try to make the image being ranked more enticing for google searchers to try to increase traffic? Right now the images are not generating many clicks.

Thanks for the response, the article already had these so I guess I'll just chock this one up as a "natural link from good content" win!

Just noticed a huge spike on one of our How To articles and found that a Lifehacker article used our article as a reference and linked back to it. Is there anything I can to to maximize the link juice from this backlink?

Thanks!

Here is my current sitemap for my site http://www.yakangler.com/index.php?option=com_xmap&view=xml&tmpl=component&id=1

I have some questions about it's current settings. I have a component called JReviews that xmap produces a separate link for each category.

ex: http://www.yakangler.com/fishing-kayak-review/265-2013-hobie-mirage-adventure-island 2014-09-03T20:46:25Z monthly 0.4

http://www.yakangler.com/fishing-kayak-review/266-2012-wilderness-systems-tarpon-140 2014-06-03T15:49:00Z monthly 0.4
http://www.yakangler.com/fishing-kayak-review/343-wilderness-systems-tarpon-120-ultralite 2013-11-25T06:39:05Z monthly 0.4

Where as my other articles are only linked by the content category.

ex:

http://www.yakangler.com/news monthly 0.4
http://www.yakangler.com/tournaments monthly 0.4
http://www.yakangler.com/kayak-events monthly 0.4
http://www.yakangler.com/spotlight monthly 0.4

Which option is better?

I've tried to search this topic on Google and here but I'm flooded with old content from Google on how to use the diagnostic tool. Did they remove this from Google Webmaster Tools?

The first question is pretty self explanatory. If I do need my keyword I'm trying to rank for in my link example: Looking for a cool skateboard (cool skateboard) is my keyword.

Can anyone on here help me come up with some creative ways for me to get folks to post backlinks to my site with that key word in it? Unfortunately my sites url does not have the keyword in my domain.

Wow that actually worked!!!! Thanks you have solved the issue!

It's nice to hear you didn't get a copy and paste answers like I got. What steps did you take to solve the issue, or did the revoking of tokens finally work?

Linda did you ever get your issue resolved?

Thanks for the response, the article already had these so I guess I'll just chock this one up as a "natural link from good content" win!

A while ago my site had a pharmacy hack done to it and created a ton of spam links. I've since fixed the issues on my site but I'm still showing links from their sites. See screen shot:

http://awesomescreenshot.com/0497cc147

I think they are links from the spam site to me and not my site "yakanger" linking to them correct?

Do I need to worry about these?

Can I get rid of them?

I've been with SEO Moz for over a month and a half. Why would this weeks crawl have

Pages Crawled: 0? I've made no changes since the crawl last week that had 10k pages crawled...

Just noticed a huge spike on one of our How To articles and found that a Lifehacker article used our article as a reference and linked back to it. Is there anything I can to to maximize the link juice from this backlink?

I'm having the same issues, revoking access, and reauthorizing does not work.

not sure if this is any help to anyone but I have almost the same issue but it's a 500 error and the description says:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/downpour/init.py", line 391, in _error failure.raiseException() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/python/failure.py", line 370, in raiseException raise self.type, self.value, self.tb Error: 500 Internal Server Error

Talking to my hosting provider they said when the seomoz bot crawled my site it put my cpu usage over 25% causing the errors...  We will see if this happens on Sunday.