competitor sites link to a considerable amount of irrelevant sites/nonsense sites that seem to score high with regard to domain authority

[eranariel]

According to my recent SEOmoz links analysis, my competitor sites link to a considerable amount of irrelevant sites/nonsense sites that seem to score high with regard to domain authority... e.g. wedding site linking to a transportation attorney's website. Aother competitor site has an overall of 2 million links, most of which are seemingly questionable index sites or forums to which registration is unattainable.

I recently created a 301 redirect, and my external links have yet to be updated to my new domain name in SEOmoz. Yet, by comparing my previous domain  authority rank with those of the said competitor sites, the “delta”  is relatively marginal. The SEOmoz rank is 21 whereas the SEOmoz ranks of two competitor sites  30 and 33 respectively.

The problem is, however, is to secure a good SERP for the most relevant terms with Google… My Google pagerank was “3” prior to the 301 redirect.  I worked quite intensively so as to receive a pagerank only to discover that it had no affect at all on the SERP. Therefore, I took a calculated risk in changing to a domain name that translates from non-latin characters, as the site age is marginal, and my educated guess is that the  PR should rebound within 4 weeks, however, I would like to know as to whether there is a way to transfer the pagerank to the new domain…

Does anyone have any insight as to how to go about and handling this issue?

[riyas_]

It will take 1 week - 4 week to recover the value from 301'ed URLs

I remember when Rand Fishkin 301ed his old domain to http://moz.com/rand/ it took 7+ days for him to recover

See Rands tweets regarding this

https://twitter.com/randfish/status/243834935478210560

https://twitter.com/SEOChampion/status/244537514570960896

[eranariel]

Thanks...I'll have a look....