I have a Question about open site explorer.Specifically the top pages tab
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When i hover the little question mark icon it says "target the best pages to maximize link building.See top pages on the subdomain according to Page authority." Could someone explain this to me.And how do i target the best pages.I'm beginning my second trial week of SEO moz so please excuse me if I sound like a beginner!
Thanks in advance
PCtechGuy2012
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Cool man! Thanks alot !I'll Check it out!
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Quoting the SEOmoz page (http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/page-authority
Unlike other SEO metrics, Page Authority is difficult to directly influence. This is because it is made up of an aggregate of metrics (mozRank, mozTrust, link profile, etc...) that each have an impact on this score. This was done intentionally because this metric is meant to approximate how competitive a given site is in Google.com. Since, Google.com takes into account a lot of factors, a metric that tries to calculate it must incorporate a lot of factors as well.
This means the best way to influence this metric is to improve your overall SEO. Particularly you should focus on your link profile (which influences mozRank and mozTrust) by getting more links from other well linked to pages.
The best way is to implement their advice and improve your overall site SEO with inbound links, on-site SEO, etc.
By the way, if you have't read the Beginner's Guide yet, I highly recommend it: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
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I added a response I dont know if you saw it or not.Can you let me know!
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WellI I probably should of said I was searching my own domain.the problem is my root domain is has a PA of 28 & I have a WP blog that has a PA of between 17-15 & my main content(the content I want my potential customers to get) has a PA of about the same.How do I increase the PA of my own content that I want targeted?
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Love-o-ly question and no worries, we all started somewhere
When you click on the "Top Pages" tab you will see a layout of pages within the domain in query of opensiteexplorer. The good news? As usual SEOmoz has done the heavy lifting for you.
They have already ranked the top pages by page authority. Don't let the subdomain/domain authority thing throw you.
So for example if you have a site with only 3 or 4 pages ranked in the 60s or 70s and the rest of their pages are ranked below 20 you will want to obviously target the pages with the best page authority. Because all the pages are on the same domain, they share the same domain authority.
Hypothetically:
I am scooping out a site for a link. When I contact them I will want to specify the page if at all possible that the link will be put on. It only makes sense I want to be on the most appropriate and highest valued page.
Keep in mind, top page are not the links this site has - that is under the linking domains tab
Hope that helps
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When on the Top Pages tab, OSE is just giving you a summary of the pages on the site that have the highest page authority. Presumably, the higher the page authority, the more valuable a link on that page. This is useful for knowing which sites and pages to attempt to get links to your site from.
Page authority is calculated based an an algorithm (see here: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/page-authority) of factors, such as linking root domains, inbound links, etc.
I hope that makes sense! Let me know if it doesn't.
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