Google uses more than 200 important ranking factors in its algorithm and, like any great magician, they haven’t revealed all of their secrets. If they did, people would probably use this information to rank poor quality websites. However, Google has revealed many, and while some have been proven, others are merely SEO speculation or are still hidden. But one factor we know quite a bit about is the domain office.
What does this term mean? How does this affect the ranking of your sites? And what can you do to fix it? Here’s what you need to know about DA.
What is Domain Authority?
A domain authority (DA) refers to the number of relevant links on your site – links to your site from other trusted sites. The importance of these backlinks also contributes to your score.
Moz created the Domain Authority metric to help companies find out where they can place it on search results pages (SERPs). They evaluate the possible ranking of the page through several channels, including “linking the total number of root domains and links to a single DA score. This score can be used to compare websites or track a website over time.”
Some brands are authoritative, don’t even seem to try. This is because the keywords that naturally exist on their websites weigh a bit. Domain authority is determined on a logarithmic scale. This means that individual metrics do not always increase or decrease the score by the same amount. The more important the measure, the greater the likely impact.
Some brands are authoritative, don’t even seem to try. This is because the keywords that naturally exist on their websites weigh a bit. Domain authority is determined on a logarithmic scale. This means that individual metrics do not always increase or decrease the score by the same amount. The more important the measure, the greater the likely impact.
Difference between Domain Authority (DA) & Page Authority (PA)
The Domain Authority (DA) is a measure that predicts how a website is likely to rank in the SERPs, while the Page Authority (PA) shows how well a specific website is likely to rank in the SERPs.
What is your domain authority score? This means that the domain authority of the website is based on links that point to the domain in general, including links to the home page and some internal pages.
Dominant authority is a useful metric if you want to analyze the ranking potential of a website. Websites with higher DA are usually higher in the SERPs than websites with lower DA. This is a generalization, of course, because it’s about many other variables, such as how well the page is optimized for specific keywords, the quality of the page’s content, and so on.
Usually, your DA website will grow over time as it gets more links and trust. However, it’s possible that your DA will decrease if you lose links or if Moz changes their algorithms that calculate the DA metric. This happened recently when they launched their domain authority 2.0.
Now that we have the basics of calculating domain authority, let’s take a look at some ways you can improve your DA.
How to improve Domain Authority?
By improving the authority of your domain, you also increase your chances of improving your search engine rankings. Think of DA as an opportunity to calculate how competitive a website is in Google search. The higher the domain authority of your website, the harder it is to get over it. Similarly, when creating links to your blog, you should try to get links from websites with good domain authorities.
Days to expiry of domain name
This is probably the easiest thing you can do right now to influence the ranking of your domain. Days to expiration are not a terribly strong factor, but they are a key factor in creating a good website. This shows search engines that one can trust these long-term websites. If your domain expires next year, I suggest you renew it for the next 3-4 years. It will cost only a few dollars more and will benefit you in the long run.
Get more links to your site
This is probably one of the factors that affects your DA score the most. Try to earn as many links as possible, but make sure those links come from quality websites. When you buy links or get links from low quality websites (using automated methods), you do more harm than good. (See: Google Penguin & Negative SEO)
Diversify your link profile
Instead of getting a lot of links from some websites, focus on getting quality links from various sources. This would include links from different geolocation websites, different domain extensions, and unconnected sources. Needless to say, the links need to be relevant and high quality.
Internal link structure
This is one important factor that you can easily check. Have you recently visited Wikipedia? Have you noticed how strong their internal connection is? Make sure each of your posts is linked to 2-3 other posts on your blog, and if you post a new blog post, go back and link to your old posts. It also takes link juice from old posts to new ones.
Remove bad links
In addition to creating new links, you also need to be careful about bad links to your site. You can use the service to track links to receive email alerts. If a bad link shows your site, make sure it is removed, or use the Google Discard tool to ignore those links.
On-Site SEO
Make sure your site is search engine optimized because it controls, for example, the flow of link juice, how easily search engine crawlers crawl your site, and how user-centric your content and navigation are. To do this, make sure that on-page SEO is implemented, and in addition to your site, add rich snippets and schema plugin to make it even more expressive with a little more detailed content.
Social Media marketing and branding
Social media plays a significant role in ranking your content. Whether or not social networking is a domain authority ranking factor is debatable, but it is certainly a ranking factor in the Google search engine ranking algorithm. Make sure your brand and your blogs are represented on all major social networking platforms. Also try to make sure your readers share your content on social networking platforms. This helps to improve your ranking and indexing.
Final Thought
Domain authority may seem complicated at first. There are many factors that affect your rank, and analyzing all of them can seem daunting. However, if you track DA, it’s worth checking and optimizing. Adding it to your SEO tool will allow you to gain a broader understanding of the overall digital presence and health of your website.