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Hello, our domain authority dropped significantly overnight from 37 to 29\. We have been building good links from high DA pages and producing quality, regular content.
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Hello, our domain authority dropped significantly overnight from 37 to 29. We have been building good links from high DA sites and producing regular, good quality content.
Anyone able to offer any ideas why?
Thanks
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Care to share how?
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I'm still a bit confused, as I've checked our DA elsewhere and get the same results. A 10 point drop, so I'm not really sure of the real numbers here.
Was my DA wrong before today or is Today and onwards going to be wonky until the index issue settles?
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Can I just confirm, if you're DA has dropped after this update - are they referring to you as one of the low quality sites that Moz were crawling too frequently?
Or, are they saying because they were crawling these sites, using up crawl budget - they couldn't crawl all our pages effectively? I still don't understand why our authority would drop after this however?
Thank you
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I have also seen the same thing on a number of sites I'm monitoring.
Is this just an estimate from Moz? Or will it affect us in Google?
Thank you
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This will likely be due to the new index that was released, your domain authority is relative to the index and sites contained in the index. The new index was smaller, but is now fixed and will likely give you more accurate figures.
https://moz.com/community/q/new-mozscape-index-released-learn-just-what-s-been-going-on
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Hi both,
Thanks for your responses. Think a few of our clients have also gone down, but not as drastically. Website speed is fine and everything seems normal, so not sure what to make of it.
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Domain Authority is always worth measuring against competitors rather than just as a metric on its own. Do you know what happened to your competitors DA overnight?
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I've seen the same on some websites I'm tracking...
The only one who get the most links, and powerfull ones from press (due to RP and launch of new unique contents) lost 2 points.... Weird!
Does the DA takes into account the speed of the website? Because that's the only thing which changed (had a bug with the cache plugin)...
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