Another guest blogging question (sorry)
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Hi,
I have been kind of stuck with guest blogging lately.
The amount of times I have seen PR1/2 root domains but SEOMOZ tool bar says DA:35/40 mR:4+ mT:4+
I know you are supposed to look at the content itself and other aspects but what do you trust more SEOMOZ tool bar or Googles PR?
Cheers
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Trusting one metrics or the other is not the right question to ask. There's no such thing as a perfect tool for measuring domain/page authority. Combining multiple metrics (not just PR and SEOMoz, but data provided by other tools as well) is what helps you understand the real value of a page.
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Hey
Yeah this can be a bit of a problem, as is the same with relying on any one metric to judge something by.
As great as SEOmoz PA/DA etc. are they are probably more easier to game than say pagerank - this could be by more spammy links being counted, or say if the domain did have a site on, was dropped, then re-registered by someone else with lower quality content or content dragged out of the wayback engine put on it.
Overall I would always look at a blog and think 'if I was interested in this content would this be the kind of site i'd read ?' - if the answer is yes then go for the guest post, if not then maybe move on.
Other metrics such as social (facebook fans, twitter followers, G+1s etc.) can also help give an idea of how genuine the site is, although there are also ways to game these as well.
Hope that helps!
Stuart
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