Metrics for guest posting
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I have couple blogs willing to publish an article with a backlink to my site. I want to compare them. What SEO metric is the best to use for comparison: Domain Authority or Domain Domain Mozrank or DomainTrust? I want to choose a blog that will give me the most linkjuice
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For counting them I would use Open Site Explorer, but you can also use Majestic SEO. David makes a good point about how "spammy" the site may/may not be, albeit this is a bit more subjective a call. So if the PA is one, then by all means look at DA, but also look at the site overall. Which do you think will give you more bang.
BTW - What type of blog? What vertical? (U don't have to name it, just in general).
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I look at who the site links to in side bar etc and that its not a spammy site then DA and if i think ill get click thru traffic.
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Thank you Robert. Yes, of course I understand that PA is more important than DA, however a new blogpost is posted on a new page where PA is 1.
Thanks for the advise about the number of links. Is there any tool that counts them automatically?
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You will want Page and not domain. You would also want a page that has the fewest links on it. So, a page with a PA of say 40 with ten links will not give as much juice as a page with PA of 20 and only two links. (for those of you that are looking at this deeply, I am being basic). Another factor would be if any of the links leaving the page were noFollow, but for your question this is a good simple explanation.
So, if one site is handing out links like candy and the other is more prudent, but both are close in PA from the linking page, I would go with prudent. But, you could always go with both....
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