Why is my DA still only 1 :(

[Systemyzed]

Hello I am tearing my hair out! I re-launched my site www.systemyzed.com over a month ago and have been working hard on getting good backlinks. I even got one from a daily UK newspaper. But my DA is not budging from 1. Is there something fundamental wrong with my site? I have checked the loads speed and its better than average. I have taken off all duplicate content in the re-launch. The mobile optimisation is good. Everything looks good in the Google Search Console (ie. there are no red flags or warnings) my site is fully https. The only that raises our eyebrows is that there are 179,000 links coming to our site from a client site - however we have checked these are no-follow and it appears to be so. I was also prepared to wait a while to see a change in the DA ranking for my new site (because we only relaunched a month) ago however now I am particularly concerned about it as I launched a new client site last night (I am a web designer) and that site has had NO SEO work done on it all, has hardly any words, is slow to load and it definitely does not have any backlinks BUT this site appears to have a DA of 9 already. This does not make any sense to me at all. I am very concerned and confused. Please help. I just want to know that the work I am doing is the right work and that i am not fundamentally undermining myself in some way that I am unaware of. Thank you in advance for your help.

Yours, 
Lucy

[tawnycase]

Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here. 
Ria Parish and Edward Sturm have the right answer here - it's just down to waiting for our index to find your new site, crawl it, and index links pointing to it.

Open Site Explorer and the Link Analysis page of campaigns are both tied to our Mozscape index, which tends to update roughly once a month.

Just a few points on how we compile our index:

• We grab the most recent index.
• We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains).
• We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled ~130 billion URLs

The idea here is that we're focusing on the highest-quality links we can find, coming from the most prominent pages of authoritative sites. So, while you may not see every link for a site within our index, we're aiming to report the most valuable ones available!

Most new sites and links will be indexed by our spiders and available in Mozscape and Open Site Explorer within 60 days, but some take even longer for many reasons - including the crawl-ability of sites, the number of inbound links to them, and the depth of pages in subdirectories. (This also slightly biases our index in favor of newer links. Link data is only stored in the index for around 180 days. After that point, unless the crawler is prompted to revisit and re-crawl those links, they can fall back out of our index again.)

You can see our most recently updated schedule here as well as some more technical metrics on our Mozscape API Updates page. You can also see when the last and next updates happened on the Open Site Explorer (OSE) homepage at any time.

Since Moz focuses on quality of links over quantity, we are always focused on the most relevant links to display to our users. It's possible that Moz's index will leave out some of the lower-quality (non-link juice providing) links out of our index because of this. So, that might explain why you may see some discrepancies with what other tools may be showing.

I know this is a ton of information, so if you have any questions or if I didn't make anything clear enough, please don't hesitate to ask! You can give us a shout at help@moz.com any time.

[Edward_Sturm]

Ditto on this answer. Took me a few months (2-3 I believe) before seeing traction on my site, even with incoming links.

[Ria_]

If your site was only launched a month ago, I'd wait a little longer before freaking out. Mozscape doesn't update too frequently. It was last updated March 9th, with next update due April 10th. It might just be that Moz hasn't had a chance to crawl these new links to your site.

DA is a good indicator but is not the be-all and end-all of metrics. If your site is increasing in traffic/rankings/conversions, then you know you're on the right track.