{"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 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 <\/a><\/p>\n 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 <\/p>\n 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 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 <\/p>\n The short answer is no.<\/p>\n Many people will question whether you should strive to get links from domains with a lower DA. They wonder if it\u2019s a worthwhile link and they even question whether it will hurt their site.<\/p>\n This is a good question, with a pretty straightforward answer: It doesn\u2019t matter what DA the website is that is linking to you.<\/em><\/p>\n DA doesn\u2019t really take into account the quality of the links – at least it doesn\u2019t do a very good job at that (in my opinion). It only accounts for the overall level of links.<\/p>\n So if your site has a DA of 15 and you acquire a link from a DA 10, it may be a great link! Obviously, a DA 30 is going to (theoretically) transfer more link equity to your site than a DA 10.<\/p>\n I say may, because there are other factors that decide whether a link is a high or low-quality link.<\/p>\n One of the biggest flaws I see with people using DA alone is that it doesn\u2019t take into account the quality of the link. Well, it does use MozTrust as a factor, but I don\u2019t think the DA score accurately describes the quality of links.<\/p>\n I like to use trust ratio for that. The trust ratio uses majestic\u2019s trust flow and citation flow to get the trust ratio<\/a>. This gives us a quick view of how \u201ctrustworthy\u201d the links are.<\/p>\n Remember how I was saying you should look at several metrics? That’s why I love Serped<\/a>, as it combines the metrics of many tools to give me a quick overview of a website’s authority and trust.<\/p>\nThe Rise of Domain Authority (DA)<\/h2>\n
What is domain authority?<\/h2>\n
What does domain authority include?<\/h3>\n
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Can links with a lower DA harm your site?<\/h2>\n
DA isn\u2019t as good at taking into account link quality<\/h3>\n