Low Page Authority in existing article in blog Any Ideas to improve it?
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Im managing a blog that has a lot of articles with Page Authority 1.I have already checked with On-page Grader that these articles are Grade A, so they have the SEO structure perfect and would like to know any ideas to get this Page Authority rise in existing articles that are already written, like changes that can effectively be made this page authority get higher.
Thanks in advance and regards,
Jorge Pascual
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Hi,
Page authority is a metric largely derived from inbound links (internal and external), so very low page authority is mostly associated with very few, or very bad, links pointing to those pages. If you run an OSE report, do you see any external links pointing to those articles? Are the articles well linked-to from relevant sources within the same website?
Unless the articles are meant to serve as important landing pages, it's worth noting that they do not need extremely high PA, and it's normal for otherwise strong sites to have a lot of low-PA pages.
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I would also suggest to improve your internal linking. Link every article to one or two relevant articles of your website.
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You will probably have better success just working to improve the website and its content.
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