Page Rank vs Page Authority

[roydovaston]

I've noticed in a couple of tools that I use that you can filter by Page Rank or by Page Authority. Does anyone know the difference and does anyone know any free Page Authority checkers?

 

[Annife]

Good question

Hi, I dont know the exact difference, but i know that both rank are very similar. I mean that you cant find one site with great PR and poor authority.

Im gonna stay in the touc in this thread.

 

[Blossom]

Page Authority is probably referring to SEOmoz's metric.

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

 

[dashu1]

Cutts is always banging on about authority and trust, I think they're a different metric to page rank, although ironically all high authority sites have high PR, but probably not all high PR sites have high authority.

 

[rocklesnar]

Page rank is important but site authority is more important. Page Rank is what we all know to be that number that signifies how well a site ranks in Google's search algorithm (how old it is, how many backlinks it has, etc.) authority rank is how authoritative it is to Google.

 

[roydovaston]

Thanks for the replies - I must admit - i've been working more based on authority than page rank alone.