Domain Autorithy drop from 18 to 14!!
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Hello,
I was surprised today by my domain autorithy drop from 18 to 14 in one single day. A couple of days ago I started to use Hubspot demo and for some strange reoson yesterday I had a huge ammount of visits yesterday.
My domain autorithy was 18 yesterday and today is 14 and the links to my site increased almost 1500.
Whats is happening?
Tks in advance!
Pedro Pereira
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Hi Pedro,
SEOmoz just updated the way they calculate PA and DA yesterday, along with a new release of the OSE index. Check out Rand's post at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/2nd-november-index-update-our-broadest-index-yet-and-new-pada-scores-are-live for more information.
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