Question About On Page Grades

[BlackEnterprise]

New to the whole SEO game in some aspects and wanted to know about on page grades.

Some of the pages I got ranks of F for are actually in the top 10 in Google. Could anyone help me to explain way these pages/tags are F's with those rankings?

[KempRugeLawGroup]

I agree with everything from Dan, but I wanted to add the following: I was in the same boat as you a few months ago, when I got my first report. If you're like me, you're next step might be "should I touch a page, if it's ranking well?" I optimized all the other pages first, and then, eventually decided to go ahead and optimize the ones that were ranking well, too. I was nervous this would somehow hurt my rankings, but it didn't. Everything stayed the same or moved up where possible. At least, now I know, I have that step taken care of in case someone else starts trying to go after the same keywords.

[Dan-Lawrence]

Hi

Probably because there is not much competition for the keywords they are ranking for

A good seomoz grade report does not determine that you will get a good ranking, just that a page with an A grade is more likely to achieve better rankings than a page with an F grade (since an A grade means page is more relevant for the target keyword than a page with an F grade).  This is also considering all other factors to be equal (which they never are of course).  So for example a page graded F but has lots of high quality links from good quality content pages on high authority websites, may well rank higher than a page on a different site that has an A grade that doesnt have any good quality links, from high quality websites

Hope that helps ?

All Best

Dan