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    Why a website ranks higher even if with lower PA and DA?

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      • SanjidaKazi
        SanjidaKazi last edited by

        www.emorroidi-esterne.it
        Created: 2014-01-29 13:36:56

        emorroidi-rimedi.it
        Created: 2014-03-09 22:21:01

        www.emorroidi-esterne.it is an older ( albeit slightly ) domain name and contains all of the information that emorroidi-rimedi.it does. The websites are very similar in code although rimedi.it at a glance does seem to have slightly better SEO in terms of coding.

        I would hazard a guess that making the website so similar to another one you built on an older domain name is making it harder for the fresher one to rank. There will be a lot of other factors at play though.

        Matt-POP posted a very good Moz Blog on this subject and it will be well worth reading through it all so you can see just how many factors are actually present.

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          emarketer @SanjidaKazi last edited by

          Thanks Jamie for the answer and the Matt-POP link!

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          • Alick300
            Alick300 last edited by

            Hi Emarketer,

            There are several other ranking factors that affected SEO around 200. I have seen many sites during search that despite having high PA & DA site appears on low ranking position.

            Matt-Pop wrote an article on this . Please read the article once you will get whole idea why your site is not ranking above even having high PA& DA from your competitors.

            http://moz.com/blog/going-beyond-moz-metrics-to-answer-why-is-this-site-outranking-me

            Thanks

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            • SanjidaKazi
              SanjidaKazi @emarketer last edited by

              Not a problem, good luck with it!

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              • emarketer
                emarketer last edited by

                I've noticied that the website ranking in the first position has a huge quantity of content about the theme: it could be possibile that the website ranks in that way (despite the DA and PA lower metrics) for some LSI / LDA factor? I mean, Google considers the website the one that talks in deep way about the theme, with correlate arguments. In addition, unlike the other websites, the first result is a website with that only theme (starting from the url), instead, some other websites has only one page about the theme of the SERP.

                What do you think about it?

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