Low Page Authority for key landing pages

[HireSpace]

Hi guys - I am struggling to understand why I have a Page Authority of 1 (!) for most of my key product landing pages.

All of them are linked to directly from the Homepage, which has PA 46 and DA 40. Many of them are also linked to from high ranking external sites.

Less valuable pages on the site, with far fewer links, seem to have much higher PA.

For some reason these just don't seem to be registering the link juice which is flowing to them. In fact, OSE doesn't seem to register any links for them - perhaps this is the biggest clue?

I am at a bit of a loss. Some of these pages still rank highly for relevant keywords on Google. But something clearly isn't quite right.

Has anyone experienced similar?

[ecommercebc]

Sometimes Moz can be a little slow on metrics like this for new pages. Have you tried running your pages through OSE to find out if Moz has discovered these pages?

Sneaky edit: Sorry, I should ask this first: How long have your pages been live?

Sneaky, sneaky edit: Sorry (again!). If this query relates to the URL listed in your bio, I think I know what's happening. It looks like some of your product landing pages have changed URLs recently and /Browse 301s to the new /Top locations.

If you check the /Browse URLs, you'll see that Moz has got some PA data for these old URLs, it might just take the crawler a while to spot the 301. Usually Moz will show a notice saying that the old URL (in your instance /Browse) redirects to a new location, and as it's not showing when I use OSE on the example /Browse URL, I'm guessing it hasn't picked it up yet. Someone else might also be able to weigh in on how Moz passes PA/DA on 301s.

If this isn't related to your bio URL, well I've just written a paragraph of nonsense. We'll see!

[HireSpace]

Many thanks for this

It's a strange on as the pages (if not the URLs) are over a year old and this is not a new problem. That said, I'm still interested in thoughts about Moz and how it deals with 301s, sure there might be some clues there.

In the meantime I'll wait and see. Another thought was that page speed might be an issue.

[ecommercebc]

For me, the pages loaded pretty quick. I've run much slower sites through OSE and it's returned values, so don't think you have a problem there. Hopefully, when OSE recrawls the /Browse and figures out that those pages redirects, then your page authority will be passed on. This seems to be what's happened with TheGuardian.com /TheGuardian.co.uk rebrand.

You could try using Moz's crawl tool to see if you can help speed up the process? The tool is here: https://moz.com/researchtools/crawl-test. This method is recommended in the following thread: http://moz.com/community/q/how-to-force-seomoz-to-re-crawl-my-website

[HireSpace]

Thank you - very helpful