Site-Wide Header image w/ Link hurting me?
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I have a banner in the header that is constant across all pages except the one it links to. It goes in before the content div and this search term is #1 across google in almost every variation, but it appears to link in a lot of the non relevant pages for #2 spots in some cases.
While this is a relatively new domain (started 03/12), but this has been a constant rank for about 2 months.
I'm wondering if this may be hurting the keyword targeting of my internal pages and if i should no follow that header image on all pages except the homepage?
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Thanks for hte help, but it seemed it was just a google ranking spike for some new content and now things appear to be returning to normal
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Travis,
I think we all do this from time-to-time. I can take a look into this more if you'd like, all you need to do is provide us with the URL(s) and we could look into it for you.
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It is a a banner, and does have a relevant alt tag to where the link is going. I do see that the other pages that are 'ranking' for this, are starting to fall off. So in effect, i don't think that this is hurting me. I think another week or two of results should yield a conclusion to this issue.
Sometimes I tend to over analyze a situation and invent problems that may in fact not be problematic at all. Anyway, if this continues to be an issue, i'll be back for sure. I think I may of jumped the gun on this one.
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I do agree that you may want to elaborate more, but "IF" it is a banner that has an internal link, meaning that the link on the banner is to your own site, you should be okay. If you don't have it already, I would suggest making relevant alt text for the image though.
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I think you have to show us what you're talking about.
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