Comments on: 5 Proven Ways to Increase Domain Authority of Your Website (and Improve Your Rankings)

By: 99signals Editorial

99signals Editorial — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 14:57:33 +0000

In reply to Brenda Schrier. This is an old post. With Moz's declining popularity and relevance, DA is not the industry-standard metric used to gauge a site's authority. Ahrefs' Domain Rating (DR) is a more accurate metric. Nevertheless, DA and DR are both not ranking factors. They are metrics used by SEO companies to indicate a site's authority and relevance, and it's mostly based on the number of authoritative links pointing to your site.

By: Brenda Schrier

Brenda Schrier — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 14:21:51 +0000

Sandeep, good stuff!
Have you ever done any research on how accurate DA really is as a ranking factor?
During the last 2 years I did a lot of work on my site on SEO, content and (white hat) link building. I improved my site’s ranking to be in the top 3 Google results for most relevant keywords and increased traffic by 1000% (yes, no typo, the site had not much traffic before). – Still my DA actually fell from 21 to 19 during that time.
So, I wonder how important DA really is.

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By: anas ibrahim

anas ibrahim — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 03:48:06 +0000

We have been in the Search Engine marketing industry for a while, but I always learn something new everyday. Thank you for putting a great explanation for DA. I was never sure how to explain DA to other people, but I have so much better picture now. Thank you.

By: Arun MK

Arun MK — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:00:07 +0000

I think domain age, quality links and content are some important factors on which the Domain Authority Depends. Thanks for this detailed post. Got to know about some unknown factors.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 14 May 2020 05:10:19 +0000

Hi Sandeep,

Thanks for sharing this post, is there any way to increase the DA is fruitful or any other way that increases speedily in less time.

By: Ankit

Ankit — Thu, 07 May 2020 08:05:48 +0000

Great Information, explained clearly.

By: Jenna Ronon

Jenna Ronon — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 09:38:07 +0000

Sandeep,

I totally go with your ideas to improve the domain authority. Does the blog post frequency affect DA? What are all the factors that cause DA to drop gradually? Before being boosting the DA, I am supposed to stop the declination. Hope you can help me out.

By: ChathuUB

ChathuUB — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 11:03:15 +0000

Domain Authority of our website (www.xiteb.com) was descreased within three months.I need to know the reasons..

By: LEO JACK

LEO JACK — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 08:57:04 +0000

Domain Authority is really important. Better DA means better SERP. It depends lot of factors as you have mentioned and yes, we need to take care of all these things and get higher DA.
Thanks for the informative post