Page Authority vs. Domain Authority

[dunklea]

Like many of you, I've spent a lot of time in Open Site Explorer analyzing our links and our competitors, and looking for more linking opportunities. Recently we've been focusing our SEO efforts on gaining links from high value .edu domains and so far we've been very successful. The DA of these links are high (80+), but the links are also coming through on low PA pages (typically 10-35). Are these links still worth while? When does a link not become worth it?

[upick-162391]

Andrew, I'm not a huge expert but I'll give you my 2c

When I analyse links in opensiteexplorer I tend to filter out the links with PA less than 20.

I've found that with links above 20 PA works for me. There's a huge amount of PA under 20 and you can tell they are usually pages with PR of 1 or 0.

Anyways hope that helped.

[dunklea]

Thanks for your reply! I'll keep plugging away and aiming for higher PA links

Cheers,

Andrew

[seanmccauley]

I have been thinking of just this issue. I have recently added our url to directories as recommended by Rand using getlisted.org. However now on looking at where our link is placed I see the PA is 1, 0 links from 0 domains? and nor page rank information available on google tool bar. I have noticed that these directories pop up in search for some of the keywords placed within our description on these directories, therefore on local search they have been helpful. However given the PA, are they passing little or no linkjuice?

[dunklea]

I've since realized that links from pages with PA less that 20 are pretty worthless, and not worth spending too much time getting. If you can get them with minimal effort, than go right ahead, but a link with a PA of 50+ will pay dividends in the long run.

[seanmccauley]

So that means almost all directory sites are worthless for linkjuice.. and also spammy paid link with PA1...

[upick-162391]

Yeh, linkjuice I'd say is worthless.

However I'd still do them regardless of the low / no linkjuice, its just links to the site and you'll get picked up on yahoo and bing. still, and I'm sure Google will notice them and count it as something even if its only a very small amount of juice, its better than nothing.