Domain & Page Authority of brand new site?
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Something I always do to assess how easy/difficult it will be for a clients site to rank against competitors is to compare domain and page authority scores with the scores of the competitors on page 1.
This is great when Moz have spidered my clients site and can provide scores but what about where a clients site is brand new with only a few natural links? Anyone suggest a ball park figures for Domain authority on brand new websites?
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Keep in mind that DA and PA are scores that are developed by SEOmoz, not Google. Google does not come and look at OSE when deciding how to rank sites.
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Don't forget that DA/PR isn't the only factor in ranking. I wouldn't use the strategy of comparing all the competitors on the first page as a final authority on anything. On-page is still the #1 consideration; it's just that that can only take you so far, and that's when a link profile comes in.
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I have a site that is about 4-5 months old. I don't know how accurate seomoz tool bar is at updating and determiningactual authority (i think theirs is an algorithmic guess) but I out rank plenty of people with higher domain authorities and page authority than mine.
If its brand brand new I'd guess DA around 10 but again I dont think Google takes this into a account as a huge ranking factor.
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