OK SEO GURU'S!!

PA means diddley squat. So why do you keep insisting it's important? PA is a reflection of a made up metric outside of google. Like alexa. Completely meaningless to google. If something is meaningless to google, and you are working on google SERP seo, well, you are wasting your time.

If you are referring to the link on the page,it has an onclick with it.
Ordinarily, the onclick function is performed first. It's tantamount to a redirect. It looks as if it is tracking clickouts. But still, it performs that function first. It is not a straight up link.

What google does with it is anybody's guess.

I won't even say a thing about taking clients...

Paul

Me personally.... I will take a FEW spot on context related links over just links that someone may find of some made up value. I look beyond just the page.. but what pages are linked to AND from that page. CONTEXT is king

you just cant say that as a absolute positive. A PA 40 may have greater link value, but may score less on context based scoring, may score less on bounce, or keyword proximity, or this and that and the other.. ALL things being equal DOES NOT exist.. is the DA the same? is the PA 30 site a "true" Authority site? ( IE type "Changing CSS in WordPress" in Google and listing number #2 would be a "True" authority site listing. ) There are just way to many variables at play to suggest a single matrix is going to hold true in terms of rank.

Here is the thing with SEO... as important as linking is.. its not even close to the whole picture. Of the 200 and some variables at play we know the exact placement of 1 and a idea of 2 others. Rank Brain is #3 and Linking and Content are either of #1 and #2. I would suggest Rank Brain is an indicator of CONTEXT.. all that aside, is it really possible that any of these 3, could have above and beyond the value of the others to be a dominate controlling variable? The answer is NO.

You can have the best content in the world and rank on page 10.. I see that all the time. You can have back linking till your blue in the face, but there still is in low comp terms a chance a page with little to no linking can beat you out. I cant even begin to come up with an analogy for Rank Brain... LOL

The point is.. if you focus on one variable and one variable alone, your dreams of SERP dominance will not be met. You need to be solid in content, in linking, in on page, in context.. it all has to be there.

Everybody thinks they are in some niche that is so tight, they cannot possibly get links from a related site that ranks well. If your niche was women's pink left handed sand wedges, related sites would be anything having to do with golf, women's sports, left handed people, sports in general or even just women (and probably even a site about pink things, if such a site exists). There is no such thing as a niche that is impossible to get related links for.

In the context of what you are doing, it is still a waste of time to worry about the PA. You got the link from the Chamber of Commerce site. Move on. Don't waste time worrying if the PA ever moves or not. Whether the PA stays at 1 or moves to 20 will not change the value of the link at all in Google's eyes.

Because you are being logical not emotional. I rarely post anymore here but was alerted to this thread. Like most things in life the truth is somewhat in the middle between the extremists both of which are wrong in their own way.

Is Moz a third party metric and not Google? Duh of course DA and PA are third party metrics. In a perfect world you would want to look at PR ...but ummm its gone somewhere you will never see it unless you work at Google.

So does that mean the Moz metrics are meaningless? nope. They are designed to be an approximation and as such can be wildly off or dead on. Majestic and ahrefs are the same. can approximation's be useful? Yep. They are like polls - they can be dead wrong but most of the time have some truth to them

For example for the "gurus" in here saying its meaning less - lets see what they really know - is a very low PA (under 10) not an indication of weakness in a serp? Let them tell you no then go find a serp where the first page is all low PA and see how easy it ranks top 5 - 9 out of 10 times. Anyone in this thread telling you otherwise is a fool or hasn't ranked many sites.

Now could there be a strong site on the first page and Moz missed the links? sure but the odds are pretty good that thats not the case for the whole first page. When you cross check that with other metrics and the numbers are low in ahrefs and Majestic as well you've found yourself a good niche because the chances (though still possible) that all the crawlers of all three services missed a gaggle full of powerful domains is pretty low.

I have never bought a domain even when PR was still around that had very low DA and low TF that was showing in Google as PR5s or 6s. You could cross check it then. Many of us did.

Where most of these metrics go wrong is when the numbers are higher because they overestimate links or ignore OBL etc.

As for the hueey that you can just look for relevant links and tell with your eyeballs - thats a load of rot to play guru. See where the emotionalism comes in? Three companies run hundreds of servers that crawl the internet and use an algorythm and they suck but my eyeballs are going to be the mystery sauce to say which pages are ranking valuable to Google?

oh please such silliness. like relevant sites are always strong ones. Tell Aunt Mildred to write a bunch of posts over the next year on new domains and she will bank by next year and see if next year she doesn't hit your in the head with a frying pan.

Anyone telling you they can look at pages on the internet - of which they are billions now - and tell you every page that is strong or weak with any reliability is lying through their teeth

So heres the skinny Use the Metrics - all of them. they are useful in giving you some ideas of the strength. Just be aware of their weaknesses - always check the backlinks and their metrics as well.

and just ignore those telling you to ignore all metrics. Its life people - work with what you have not chuck it all because its not perfect.

No.

If I give you a shovel and tell you to build a bird house, does it help that you have a shovel. No, it doesn't help because it doesn't serve a purpose for the job.

Forget the irrelevant SEO gimmicks and it's one less thing you have to worry about when trying to rank pages.