Herbal Viagra page same DA/PA as UC Berkeley??
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Either there is some amazingly good SEO work going on here, or Google has an amazingly large hole in their metrics.
http://www.ucdavis.edu/index.html
The "nottowait" page has a PA of 85?! and a DA of 82?!
The page is HORRIBLE. The page itself is an image of another page. The nav bar does not function, nor does any of the "click here" links. At the bottom there is a paragraph of keywords and broken english.
This page is pure junk and should simply not have any value at all with respect to DA nor PA.
It has a ton of incoming links from various sources which seem to be the source of all this value, which it passes on to other pages. This page really is an affront to the "content is king" concept.
I suppose I should ask a question but all I can think of is, what is Matt Cutts' phone number? I want to ask him how this page has gotten away with being ranked so well for so long.
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I believe that this is a clear demonstration that link metrics are a decoy that pulls you away from what is really important.
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You can always report it here - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=93713.
It just goes to show that this stuff works still though.
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All of the high DA linking sites appear to be chinese, japanese and other asian sites, including government sites.
Take their 88 DA link. It is a blog comment as follows:
"<cite class="fn">John1720</cite> 说:
Aloha!
http://nottowait.com ,vigrx, http://igrkio.info ,buy valium, http://www.ritmolatino.org ,buy adipex, http://www.robboranx.com ,buy vimax, http://propecia.dailyobjectivist.com ,propecia no prescription,:"It's really frustrating how Google's algorithms can detect small details but completely miss something like this for years.
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With site speed now showing on webmaster tools I'd figure it get a ranking boost for 'performance'.
It does have a lot of linking root domains 2,665 and inbound followed links 13,799 from sites with upto 84 DA, which it probably owns.
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