What is Domain Authority?
Answered across 5 episodes of The Best SEO Podcast
A metric the host says was created by Moz and acknowledged as not fully accurate, calling it and similar third-party scores completely made up by the industry rather than official Google signals.
How experts on the show define it
A metric the host says was created by Moz and acknowledged as not fully accurate, calling it and similar third-party scores completely made up by the industry rather than official Google signals.
A measure of how credible and high-traffic a website is, which determines how much weight its coverage of a brand carries in search rankings and LLM training signals.
A metric used alongside total backlinks and domain age to assess how competitive a site is and how hard it will be to outrank it for a given keyword.
A score indicating a website's strength for ranking purposes; the hosts note that links from sites with authority above 30 or 50 are more valuable than lower-authority sites.
From Why You Should Be Using Linkable Assets by Joshua Hardwick Part 2 #421
A Moz metric measured on a 100 point scale that indicates the overall strength and ranking potential of a domain name.
Episodes that cover this
- ChatGBT writes a blog post on Local SEO for small businesses by Search Engine Land Bot (Part 2) Ep.588
- Guardrails For Your Online Brand With Paige Donnell
- The Best SEO Podcast with Matt and Chris #468
- Why You Should Be Using Linkable Assets by Joshua Hardwick Part 2 #421
- Important SEO Data Points - #SEOpodcast 243
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