Why is my key word rank so horrible?

[mr_w]

Changing out domain name is not an option we are already heavily invested in the brand "yakangler", would buying a domain name with the keyword "kayakfishing" in it be worth it maybe to a 301 or park it or something?

[mr_w]

Marisa how do I do a search in "private browsing"?

[UnderRugSwept]

It depends on your browser. If you're in Firefox, go to Tools > Start Private Browsing. With other browsers, it'll be something similar. Perhaps in Edit or Options, ect.

[mr_w]

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...

[UnderRugSwept]

I don't know if that's good news or bad news. At least if you were penalized you'd have some kind of an answer. I think your solution lies in Irving's response. Blogs are great for SEO, but left to their own devices they can wreak havoc on your site and rankings. What does your SEOmoz crawl report say? How many errors does your site have?

[irvingw]

If you create a new site keep it in mind but at this point i wouldn't change it. Once you create a site you are pretty much married to the domain and even more so as time goes by.

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

[irvingw]

see what google WMT says under site performance. your homepage is REALLY hanging for me over here in NJ when i try to get to it. takes like 20 seconds before i see your homepage render - see if you have any funky tracking, social media or other types of code that can be causing this. Google is not going to show results for pages that don't load.

[mr_w]

"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

[mr_w]

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...

[mr_w]

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.

[mr_w]

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

[poolhall]

I would suggest nofollow/noindex your tag pages.  A search for site:www.yakangler.com tag yields 73,800 pages.  In my experience G does not like tags.