Why our competitor has bigger DA?
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I just compare our website www.simpletranslation.com with one of our competitor www.straker.com.au and their DA is much better than ours even we have more external backlinks. Can somebody explain me why?
We worked really hard on new content on our blog and did few guest posts and instead of see some results on increasing of our DA our DA went down in last 2 months and I have no idea why.
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If they won't take them down, you can use the link disavow tool in Search Console. Since DA is a Moz generated metric, you might not see a change, but Google will stop 'counting' those links to your site.
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Is there anyway how to remove them when we don't have access to login and administrator of these websites don't answer. We didn't do these links.
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Hi,
It's important to remember that your link profile isn't about quantity, it's about quality. 10,000 junk links are less valuable than 10 high quality links.
I took a quick look at your link profile in OSE, and it looks like you have some questionable sites pointing to yours. For example, the one from this domain: http://organisedlinks.com, even the domain of that site screams "link farm!". And that same domain is also part of a network, I can see multiple links to your site with the first part of the URI being "/business/business-services/", which is not a great indicator of link quality when that appears on multiple linking domains. Most of your links are from domains that all appear to being aggregating links/data from the same place.
Get rid of those links, acquire some relevant links from industry related sites and you should see your DA tick back up.
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