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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?

Just a heads up to everyone. If you contact support via email like Sean suggested above this is the response you will get.

Normally this error is a result of Google going through a process called Oauth when it comes to authorizing access of services that are linked to your Google account. Under any single Google account, there are about 20 tokens account wide. Those tokens are used to provide access for a variety of services from Gmail to apps on your phone. Once you hit the limit, which is 20 for most users, the system automatically revokes the oldest token to provide a new one. I'm not certain if this is causing the issue on your account, but it is a great place to start troubleshooting.

You may be able to correct the issue by manually revoking your tokens to make room for new ones on your account and then reconnecting the account to Moz. Here are the instructions on how to do that:

• Follow this link https://accounts.google.com/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens. This page displays the current OAuth tokens you are using.
• Once you reach the page, simply press the revoke button (illustrated on this screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/vjh3KrjRRIe) for services that you are not using right now.
• Once you are done with, that simply go back to your campaign settings, disconnect your GA profile and reconnect.

I hope that helps, but please let me know if you are still seeing the error after you've done this or if you have less than 20 tokens on your account.

Look familiar? Yes it is the same instructions posted all over this forum. The worst part is when you reply to help saying you have tried this and it is still not working they will literally send you the exact same verbatim response. In fact they sent me this verbatim response for all 3 responses to my help email... You will also get the same people answering your email that answer in this forum, so I guess there is no Tier 1, 2, or 3, support. This issue is still not resolved for my account.

Nope I already tried that and did it again just in case... No Joy

I've had my MOZ account for a while and have just dealt with this issue for a while now but it is really getting annyoing. My Google Analytics account will not stay connected.

Eveery time I refresh a page or click to a different page, I get a notification that reads "Our connection to your Google Analytics account was lost. Don't worry, you won't lose any data. Please reauthorize now."

I click the link to reauthorize and it says it was successful, But then as soon as I refresh the page or click to a new page withing Moz Pro, the message appears again.

I've tried the fixes listed in all the other questions about this issue

• Follow this link https://accounts.google.com/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens. This page displays the current OAuth tokens you are using.
• Once you reach the page, simply press the revoke button (illustrated on this screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/vjh3KrjRRIe) for services that you are not using right now, as well as your current Moz token.
• Once you are done with that, simply go back to your campaign settings, disconnect your GA profile and reconnect (I recommend you use a fresh incognito window).

And they do not work. Please help me solve this very annyoing issue!

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

I just found another 1100 links from 800+ domains! This is getting ridiculous!

It should help that as soon as I discovered the links I submitted all the domains to be devalued through webmaster tools. But the risk with Google is they are so big most of the time they just don't give a crap.

There are always enemies...  Just not sure who...

Thanks, I think it's pretty BS that crap like this can affect your rankings. All this does is make people do it more if it can cause a drop in rankings!

I just don't understand how all these links could be created in a few days "naturally" when the links to my site before this have always grown slowly.

All the links have the same key word and link to sites like

domain:le-saint-coran.com
domain:blogs.estadao.com.br
domain:blog.teenlife.com
domain:digimills.com
domain:marisolynorsecasanengijon.com
domain:blogs.estadao.com.br
domain:blog.fullscreen.net
domain:blog.teenlife.com
domain:blogs.estadao.com.br
domain:nosoloconsolas.com
domain:platformed.info
domain:littlehomeschoolonthehill.com

All have nothing to do with my industry. It looks like someone used a program to create the links because many are hidden by css you can only see them when you view the page source.

Today I looked at site explorer and found over 1100 linking root domains and over 750 linking c-blocks. My site was hovering around 200 linking root domains and 150 linking c-blocks. I have not paid anyone to link to my site...  Is this one of my competitors trying to create negative seo for a specific key word?

I've worked very hard to never try to build links and only get links naturally by providing good content that people would want to link to. Can all hundreds of new links hurt me? What can I do?

my site is www.yakangler.com

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EGOL do you think it would negatively affect me if I swap it so www.yakangler.com/kayak-fishing-review is www.yakangler.com/kayak-fishing-reviews?

The links are slightly different

www.yakangler.com/fishing-kayak-reviews

www.yakangler.com/fishing-kayak-review

the one with the s has just been around forever the one without the s is new.

Do you think it would be better to change the one without the s so it take the place of the one with the s? (if that makes any sense)

Also do you think Google will like the plain page with hardly any actual words and just links or the one with photos and words better?

I'm in a bind, I've been working on my SEO for a while now and have finally landed on the top page for [fishing kayak reviews] in Google US. The problem is it's not the page I want to be ranked! I've recently updated my reviews component to a more robust system but the url is slightly different.

Looking currently [Reviews without Images] http://www.yakangler.com/fishing-kayak-reviews is ranking in Google but I would like [Reviews with Images]  http://www.yakangler.com/fishing-kayak-review to rank instead.

What would be the best solution for this problem?

Adjust the url for [Reviews with Images] so it take the place of [Reviews without Images]? Do you think I will get any negative impacts from this?

Thanks for your input, The top 5 domains all have "Kayak Fishing" in their URL so they all have many links tagged with that key word, where as we do not because it wouldn't be natural. I could understand why this would cause us to not be on the first page but page 23?

Here is the top result in site explorer: http://awesomescreenshot.com/02b12w4n5c

Here is us: http://awesomescreenshot.com/02112w4fdd

Grrr, and may of the top links are what I would consider spammy, directories or article submissions sites.

Will we never be able to beat them because they get the key word in their anchor texts because of the site name?

Non of the top 5 listings have a larger social media presence then us, in fact many don't do any social media.

I updated the links menu at the bottom to say "helpful sites"

Also how long should I wait between SEO changes to see if there were any positive or negative movement. My site has been fluctuating from page 19 on Monday to page 23 today...

James thanks for the help! I checked WMT and the only messages I had were 2 server outages I had one last month and the other on the 18. The outage was only for a couple of hours. The SERP rankings have fallen way before these messages. There are not other warnings other then some 500 errors and 404's etc.

I've been having issues ranking for the key word kayak fishing. At one point a few months ago I managed to get my site www.yakangler.com to page 2 but have since fallen back to page 20+. I thought it was because of keyword stuffing or over optimization so I made some tweaks to my home page and started to see a small daily rise but stopped at page 19. I have since slipped back to the top of page 24...  What am I doing wrong? I don't employ any blackhat linking, I know I have some W3C validation errors on my home page "many caused by the facebook like button". Any ideas on how to improve my SERPS would be greatly appreciated.

The most frustrating thing is comparing my site to the top Google searches for that key word...  I should be doing fine definitely not page 24!

Much gratitude in advance for any help you can offer!

I have "Kayak Fishing Ultimate Resource" in my meta title, should it just be "kayak fishing"?

lol and the "

blahblah

" was a fat finger which is fixed.

I've been trying to rank for the key word "kayak fishing" for my site www.yakangler.com.  Last year when I started working on the SEO for my site I was on page 30 for Google search results so like the 300th result. After tweaking things on my site I managed to get to the second page but have since fallen all the way back to page 25-26 in the search results.

I'm wondering if I'm penalized for this key word. I can't figure out why my site is ranking soooo badly for "kayak fishing"

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

I've worked extremely hard re-ranking for the key word "kayak fishing" after our site migration and panda/penguin our site www.yakangler.com was lost in the doldrums. I couldn't find us on any of the results page 1 thru page 64.

The good news is we have managed to make it to page 3 for the past month but I feel like we have hit a wall. I can't seem to get any more moment in my SERP for "kayak fishing" Google US.

Anyone have any recommendations on what I should do to move us up more? We have good content that is updated daily, an active community and forum.

site: www.yakangler.com

key word: kayak fishing

I run a Joomla site and have noticed users having a hard time finding what they are looking for. The default Joomla search is lacking and the latest Joomla search component I added is better but still not great.

I've always been able to find what I'm looking for on SeoMoz, do you guys use Google Site Search?

Wow lots of different views on if they count or not...

Thanks I'll see if there are any settings to adjust, I think it's retarded that Joomla would offer a built in link component that adds links like that by default.

sidenote: yes it's my site   you can pm me on the site or shoot me an email at mark (at) yakangler (dot)com

If your using the default Joomla weblink component do the links you add to others sites count as backlinks to those sites?

example: http://www.yakangler.com/helpful-links/26-fishing-blogs-sites

Thanks for the detailed information! So you think it's more of an architecture "menu layout" issue?

How about this meta description: "Kayak Fishing's Ultimate Resource, YakAngler offers news, reviews, and how-to articles about kayak fishing and the most active community for kayak anglers!"

What about something like this? http://awesomescreenshot.com/041el7966

I've been using SEOMOZ for several months now. I've been working on cleaning up my onpage SEO for a while now. I have much less errors then my competition and my competitive link analysis is better than the #1 and the same as the #2 google result for "Kayak Fishing" in Google US. Can anyone offer any more advice on how I can get rank better? My site yakangler.com is currently ranked #52 on Google US.

My SEO Report overview: http://awesomescreenshot.com/044ekugfc

One of the competition overview: http://awesomescreenshot.com/0f6ekvg89

Looking at the link analysis will the difference in links make that much of a difference? http://awesomescreenshot.com/03cekwo55

In an effort to clean up my url's I'm trying to shorten them by using a 301 redirect in my .htaccess file. How would I set up a rule to grab all urls with a specific structure to a new shorter url examples:

http://www.yakangler.com/articles/reviews/other-reviews/item/article-title

http://www.yakangler.com/reviews/article-title

So in the example above dynamically redirect all url's with /articles/reviews/other-reviews/item/ in it to /reviews/ so

http://www.yakangler.com/articles/reviews/boat-reviews/item/1550-review-nucanoe-frontier

http://www.yakangler.com/articles/reviews/other-reviews/item/1551-review-spyderco-salt

http://www.yakangler.com/articles/reviews/fishing-gear-reviews/item/1524-slayer-inc-sinister-swim-tail

would be...

http://www.yakangler.com/reviews/1550-review-nucanoe-frontier

http://www.yakangler.com/reviews/1551-review-spyderco-salt

http://www.yakangler.com/reviews/1524-slayer-inc-sinister-swim-tail

with one 301 redirect rule in my .htaccess file.

Thanks for the good info Irving and Joseph, I wish I would have thought about SEO when initially building the site! I guess I'm going to look into a component to handle the redirects.

I designed the structure of my website way before I even thought about SEO. I run a website that requires me to categorize articles is somewhat deep nested categories so an example url would be as follows

http://www.yakangler.com/articles/news/new-products/boats/item/1442-jackson-kayak-launches-the-big-tuna

Would you shorten the url to somethign like this?

http://www.yakangler.com/a/n/np/b/item/1442-jackson-kayak-launches-the-big-tuna

If so how would you manage the redirects I'm unsure how to add a 301 redirect in my .htaccess file that wouldn't require me to add one for every single article. Could I do it with a rule that recognizes only the middle part of the url and redirect it accordingly?

Thanks for any advice you might have!

Anyone care to help a SEO Newbie find a couple of key words that would be easier to rank for for my website that provides kayak fishing information?

mysite: yakangler.com

The key words that I've identified are as follows:

best kayak   
fishing from a kayak
fishing kayak review
fishing kayaks   
kayak and fishing
kayak fishing   
kayak for fishing   
kayak reviews   
kayak rigging
kayak weight limit   
kayaks fishing   
kayaks for fishing

But I'm worried I'm missing the point, I don't see hardly any traffic from most of these. I've really tried to rank for "kayak fishing" but seem to be totally lost in the Google Panda abyss. Any advice on a different word or strategy would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks for everyone's input!

Yeah it would be much easier if "kayak fishing" was in my domain name...

Thought that with the recent algo changes you don't want key words in your anchor text?

Thanks, was a little worried!

I've been working for a couple of months not to try and get my site optimized for the key word "kayak fishing". I haven't done any black hat linking or anything and my site had disappeared passed page 76 on Google United States...  Did I over optimize things? I get an A for the onpage reports from SEOMOZ.

site: www.yakangler.com

Keyword: Kayak Fishing

If you do a Google search for the following term it brings up 6 results are these considered duplicate content by Google? Also if so how do I prevent this but still offer other stories to readers of other articles?

Google Search Term:

site:yakangler.com Okuma helios

I've made some changes my home page seems to be loading faster now

I have alot of errors but most of them are "blocked urls in the robots.txt"

Just checked again today and I'm on page 41 instead of 47... so guess that's a good thing or maybe just a fluke for today.

Yeah it's showing some bad #'s Home page 17.9! I have a facebook like and google + buttons on the top of my home page...

"I don't think incoming links are your problem, did you get a "unnatural link profile detected" email from google in webmaster tool?"

No I didn't get any emails like that from Google

Ok did the manual check ad we are on page 47 "private browsing" on Google for the United States...  Not sure why, I've never done any black hat links or anything...