{"id":1811,"date":"2017-11-15T00:58:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T00:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialpatterns.com\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2017-11-15T00:58:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T00:58:57","slug":"lower-da-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contentcreationv4.local\/lower-da-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Links From Lower Domain Authority Bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are many metrics you can measure a website’s link equity. Most SEOs used to talk about PR or PageRank, which is one of Google\u2019s measure of links.<\/p>\n

After Google stopped updating the public PR metrics<\/a>, people turned to third-party metrics, like Domain Authority.<\/p>\n

The Rise of Domain Authority (DA)<\/h2>\n

One such metric is Domain authority or DA. This is Moz\u2019s metric and it has turned into a very popular link metric over the years.<\/p>\n

You can check the DA of a website for free by using Moz’s chrome extension<\/a>, or by going to opensiteexplorer.com:<\/p>\n

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It’s not the best idea to only use DA. Yet, I see many people relying pretty heavily on this one metric. Don’t get me wrong, it is a great metric to consider. We all look at it. But, there are also many other metrics you should be looking at in conjunction with DA\/PA.<\/p>\n

What is domain authority?<\/h2>\n

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Domain authority<\/a> is an SEO metric developed by Moz. The Domain authority, often just referred to as DA, ranges from 0-100 and it predicts how likely a website will rank in Google.<\/p>\n

Their other main metric is PA or Page Authority. This one looks at the links of an individual page, whereas Domain Authority looks at all links on your entire website (domain wide links).<\/p>\n

Note that DA is based on a logarithmic scale. This means that it is much harder to get from DA 60 to DA 70 than it is to get from DA 20 to DA 30. It also means that the higher the DA the harder it is going to be to compete, holding all else equal.<\/p>\n

Also, note that domain authority should be used as a relative score. So when Moz updates things on their end, it may change the DA of all sites. So don\u2019t look at is as a yardstick that stays constant, with a constant measure, use it as a yardstick to use against other websites.<\/p>\n

What does domain authority include?<\/h3>\n

So how is domain authority calculated? It uses a variety of factors and it uses machine learning to come up with a Domain Authority calculation. Some of the following are included in the domain authority calculation:<\/p>\n