Can Page Authority of a site be higher than its Domain Authority?

[suskanchan]

I own a website called Takeyourtips.com. While doing a search no Google, I found that the page authority of the home page (31) is higher than the domain authority (23). I was wondering if it's really possible because my understanding was page authority of a page is determined by its domain authority. Therefore, it the domain authority of a website is 23, none of its page could have a higher page authority.

Plus, upon consulting an SEO expert, I was told that neither Domain Authority or Page Authority of a page carries any importance as far as higher ranking of a website is concerned. Is this true?

Thanks in advance for the answers.

Cheers,

Sushant

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[mytouchoftech]

PA and DA are just 1 of the many ranking factors for SERPS.  DA not as much.  Consider a blog you set up at wordpress.com.  Your DA is 100 because it's a wordpress.com domain, but your page authority will still be 0. Will that DA help you out eventually?  Sure, but to start, it's not going to make you rank that much higher.  Perhaps that's why your expert writes it off as important.

[Andropenis_Australia]

Not much of an seo expert then is he.

For long term rankings they are great indicators, but as Conrel said it still doesn't guarantee anything, you still have to do some leg work.

[Cornel_Ilea]

First question:

Yes PA can be greater than DA.

Watch this 2010 WBF http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-domain-authority-page-authority-metrics

Second Question:

DA can predict that you will have good rankings but does not guarantee it.

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/domain-authority

Cornel