Site-Wide Header image w/ Link hurting me?

[choiceenergy]

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?

[UnderRugSwept]

I think you have to show us what you're talking about.

[Zachary_Russell]

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.

[choiceenergy]

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.

[Zachary_Russell]

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.

[choiceenergy]

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