Does a page on a site with high domain authority build page authority easier? i.e. less inbound links?

[adriandg]

Is this also why people build backlinks to their BBB profiles, Yellowpages Profiles, etc. i.e. why do people build backlinks to other pages that link to them?  Wouldn't it be more beneficial to just build that backlink directly to your target?

[Nick_Ker]

Pages on a high DA site will usually build authority easier than on a low DA site.

The reason people will build links to profiles, etc is to improve the value of the links from the profile to their site. For example, BBB home page would be very high authority, but the page for "Joe's Website" is rarely visited and relatively unknown. Building a bunch of links to that may seem odd, but will often help that particular page build authority, thus making the links to Joe's Website more helpful.

Why not just build links directly to your target? I'd say why not do both?  Check out this article that has some info on how links are valued, among other things: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/understanding-link-based-spam-analysis-techniques

[AlanMosley]

If i understand you correctly, if a home page has high Authority, will your listing on that site rise quickly if you link to it, i have heard it will.

but usealy these sites have hundreds of links on the page pointing back to their own sites so that the link pointing to your site will only get a small slice of the juice.

On the odd occasion where you have high authority, few links on listing page, then it may be worth it, but i doubt it is worthwhile searching for.
Link juice is not all a link can give but, relevancy of linking page and link text is worth chaseing, so rather than trying waht you present, i suggest just point all links to your site and get the juice , link text and page relavancy of all the links.

[gfiorelli1]

Surely it helps, but it is not enough. As for authority that link could in an internal page, with less pr and PA then the home page obviously. Surely it helps a lot at domain authority level and in trust rank.