Hi. Has anyone seen a drop in their PA recently? We have over 40 clients and 80% dropped and it has been like this for the past 2 months. I wanted to check if other websites are also experiencing this drop or is it just us?
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I'm specifically asking for drops happened in the last 2 months, because before that we had a normal trend. Some websites would go up in their PA rankings and some would drop. But seeing 80% of our clients drop like this is just weird. Just wanted to see if other market leaders are also having the same issue so I can stop attributing it something X-Filish! Our clients are all .EDUs if anyone was wondering. Also the maximum drop has been 4 points in a month.
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Hi Mike,
Two things to say here:
- It´s possible that those sites do not have any problem. Decreasing PA/DA may be because the ones that has the maximum PA/DA got better. As they can´t go higher than 100, makes the lower one decrease.
- Its possible that Mozscape didn´t find any of those links that were pointing to you before therefore decreases that metrics. Also any or many of the links already got may have gone spammy or tagged as a bad link by Mozscape algorithm
Keep in mind that DA/PA or any other metric outthere does not tell the quality of any site. its just an approximation of what that tool understands about google algorithms.
More info here:
Mozscape API updates
Open Site Explorer Guide - Moz Help hubHope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.
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