Potential site architecture problem.
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We are experiencing a problem in which category pages do not appear to be passing Page Authority to subcategory pages. See the example below:
Home page has PA of 47
The next level category page down has a PA of 34
http://www.minespress.com/category/apparel
The next sub category down has PA of 1, and shows no links at all in spite of the fact that we got to it from a category link
http://www.minespress.com/category/golf-shirts
The page in question is crawlable, is indexed and has nothing that we can see that would be prevent it from showing Page Authority and a link profile using your tools.
Do we have a site architecture problem?
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Hi Steven, this is a difficult one to crack, pointing out the exact reason for that category page not showing in the tools is not as easy, but I do see some issues with your site that might be affecting the flow of authority:
yes, Architecture. You have:
http://www.minespress.com/ (Home)
http://www.minespress.com/category/printed-products (Category 1)
http://www.minespress.com/category/printed-envelopes (Category 2)
http://www.minespress.com/category/business-envelopes (Category 3)
http://www.minespress.com/products/10-business-envelopes (and the product)
I see what you are trying to do, but you have a long road to let the user get to the product,this is what I would do:
http://www.minespress.com/printed-products/business-envelopes/10-business-envelopes/
http://www.minespress.com/promotional-products/key-tags/house-stress-ball-keychain/
I think that having a category called "printed envelopes" its just redundant (is there any other kind of envelope?)
Maybe consider linking to the most important categories from the main navigation.
Also on a side note: Please check this http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/basics-of-search-engine-friendly-design-and-development
The idea of controlling link juice by using no-follow is not useful anymore.
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While I'm not the SEO guy here, I do know that we no-followed the image-links to control the flow of page juice. This deep link is way over 45 days old and should have been crawled by now. Most or all of our deep links (ie. product pages) are suffering this problem. We just chose this one as an example. There are hundreds if not thousands of product pages with the same symptom.
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I'm guessing this is because this is a site with a lot of links. The more links you have on one page, the less weight each one of them passes. He's probably just trying to pass as much juice as possible by nofollowing the duplicate links in the images.
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It looks ok to me - built pretty well from what I can tell. I pulled up an OSE report on your http://www.minespress.com/category/golf-shirts link and it shows no data. This is probably just an issue of OSE not having data for that deep down in your site.
Here is what OSE will tell you if no data is available for a URL.
No Data Available for this URL
Although our index is large, there are a number of reasons why we may not have data for the page you've requested. These can include:
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Recency of Page Creation:
Linkscape crawls the web constantly, but we update the index only once every 30-40 days. Thus, pages and links created since the last index update won't be available until we've seen them. A typical timeline for getting a page/site included in Linkscape is 45-60 days, sometimes less for very important or well-linked-to pages. -
Deep Down in the Web:
Our crawl focuses on a breadth-first approach, and thus we nearly always have content from the homepage of websites, externally linked-to pages and pages higher up in a site's information hierarchy. However, deep pages that are buried beneath many layers of navigation are sometimes missed and it may be several index updates before we catch all of these. -
Blocked Pages:
If our crawlers or data sources are blocked from reaching your URLs, they may not be included in our index (though links that points to those pages will still be available) -
No Links:
the URLs seen by Linkscape must be linked-to by other documents on the web or our index will not include them.
If anyone else catches anything that I'm missing please feel free to say so. I can't see any problems though.
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I'm curious, why are your image links rel=nofollowed, but the text links are not? I'm not saying this has anything to do with your issue, just curious.
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