Site not passing page authority....
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Hi,
This site powertoolworld.co.uk is not passing page authority. In fact every page shows no links unless it has a link from an external source.
Originally this site blocked Roger from crawling it but that block was lifted over 6 months ago. I also ran a crawl test last night and it shows the same thing. PA of 1 and no links.
I would like to point out that the problem seems to be the same for all sites on the same platform. Which points me in the direction of code. for example there is a display: none tag in the ccs which is used to style where the side bar links are. It's a Blue Park platform.
What could be causing the problem?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT
Turns out that blocking the ezooms crawler stopped it from being included.
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Hi there Kyle,
Thanks for writing in! Sorry for the delay, I was able to take a look at the data on the tests that I ran and to look at your crawl. From what I can tell, these are the things I noticed:
- Our crawler is pulling up your internal links, if you check out your crawl diagnostic from your "Crawl Diagnostic" tab (export to CSV), you will find that we are pulling your internal links, they are under "link count."
- The internal links count we are displaying 0 is because that data is based off of our Mozcape index, so pages that we have not indexed yet will display "0" links, which is something that can be misleading since if we have no data for that page, then technically we didn't crawl the links.
- Our Mozcape index found some of your higher index pages, you can check them out here: www.opensiteexplorer.org/pages?site=www.powertoolworld.co.uk%2F
In terms of why your pages isn't passing authority, I don't have a straight answer for that. Since Google can index more of your pages than us, they are looking at a more broader picture than OSE, so the metrics in OSE should be used as a secondary stat rather than as your primary source.
I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any questions here or in our help ticket
Best,
Peter
SEOmoz Help Team. -
I've got it in the support queue but don't have a firm answer yet. I suspect it would require a data update - those are getting faster (about 2-3 weeks).
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Great.
I'm hoping its a moz issue over a site issue.
If it is a moz issue I'm assuming this wont update until the next Linkscape update?
Thanks
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Ah, got it - you've got PA on a few pages, but that's it. Yeah, that definitely seems wrong. Let me ping support and see if we can get any answers.
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Hey Peter,
Thanks for looking into this.
I'm checking the www version.
There is a page authority on around 6 pages in total. All have external links.
I've checked all of that too and everything looks normal. The ccs display: none thing is maybe just clutching at straws.
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I'm not seeing any issues in the source code, and Xenu (desktop crawler) is seeing the internal links. You've got 22K+ pages indexed in Google, and the cached version looks normal (no cloaking or other oddities).
Are you check the "www" or non-www version? I notice you redirect to "www", so some of our tools may give you odd stats on the non-canonical version. I've seeing a PA of 39 in Open Site Explorer, though.
Let me know where you're looking, and maybe I can get Support to take a peek. It is possible something happened with blocking our bots in the past (I'm not sure how often we re-check that).
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