OSE Social Signals Affect PA/DA?

[eBoost-Consulting]

I've looked through the Open Site Explorer documentation and can't find the answer so am posting here...

I noticed a web page I work on showing a PA 30 but OSE is showing 0 links from 0 root domains. It is a page that has no internal links to it and no external links to it (that I know of) but has stumbles, tweets, and Diggs. Are these social factors the reason it has a PA of more than 0 or 1? If so, is there a link to documentation that shows how OSE handles social signals?

Thanks,

Evan

[eBoost-Consulting]

Thanks for your response! Do you know if there is specific info on how OSE incorporates the social signals into PA? I am wondering how DA would directly influence PA if there are no internal links to the page. Theoretically the page should have a PA of 0 regardless of the DA if there are no links pointing to the page anywhere on the web with the exception of social mentions.

Thanks,

Evan

[NerdsOnCall]

I know that social does have an impact on PR/PA. However, I think even more than that, the overall domain authority of the entire site will have a significant impact.

OSE probably tries to mesure social metrics like Google does (at least as close as they can). Here is a helpful article on how google and bing use social to influence their search http://www.seomoz.org/blog/facebook-twitters-influence-google-search-rankings