Linking Value of a Page
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Is it worth the effort trying to secure a link if the site has high domain authority but the page I want to link to me has page authority of 1?
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if it is a dofollow link and it is free then go ahead and get it. It does help a bit, not much. If it is a nofollow then it does not help with pagerank but the anchor text of the link still counts. So if you want to rank for idaho potatos, even a nofollow link with idaho potatos in it counts a bit. Dofollow counts for pagerank as well.
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One trick you can use to check how long it's been indexed is to do a search with
site:www.nameofdomain.com/exect-page-url.html
Then on the left use the search tool custom date range (show search tools > Custom range...).
Start checking dates in a patterned way. You can diecide how you want to start this off, if you have a best guess etc., but basically something like:
Select Jan 1st 2000 and Today. Does it show up? Sure it does, so roll the later date field back to the 1st of two months ago. Still there? ...Repeat this until you see it disapear form the results, then your close. Narrow the dates within that month.
Brian
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Hi Wayne,
Although quite grey hat the technique of 'profile linking' proves this to be true. I have seen my client sites climbing the rankings linking to sites of page rank 3,4,5 sites yet the actual page the links is on has pr 0.
Obviously we all want that home page link but I feel inner pages have just as much as value as root domains. Obviously look at the page your linking from in terms of relevance, number of links etc, but I would recommend you go for it.
Kind Regards
Neil
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You can check on the Wayback Machine http://web.archive.org/web/, to give you a general idea at least, but it does not have an archive of all sub pages. But if it is in there, you know how old it is at least. Anyone knows of other tools to check page age (not domain age)?
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Thanks, good to know. How can I check the age of the page?
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Yes. I would say that domain authority is a better ranking factor than page authority and as long as the domain authority is suitably high then go for it. The only exception I would make to this is maybe if the page in question was for some reason particularly spammy, but with a high DA site, this shouldn't be the case....
Say I manage to get a link on the bbc's website. Whether the page with the link was a couple of sub pages deep and brand new doesn't really matter. It's still a cracking link as it's from a highly trusted domain.
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I would agree with Manischa - also, look at the age of the page itself, if it is new it will naturally have a low score that should pick up in time anyway. Relevancy though as always is the key.
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If the topic of the page is relevant to your website: yes, definitely. Of course, search engines should be able to access the page, and it should not be buried very low in their site structure.
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