Any Tool for Tracking Domain / Page Authority Growth?
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Is there any tool available in the market where there is a ranking list of fastest growth in Domain and Page Authority? I launched a job site 8 months ago and I am curious to see what % of websites (not just job specific) have experienced faster growth in a similar time frame in Domain and Page Authority to get a sense of what may have been accomplished.
thank you very much,
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Just remember that if you're using the SEOmoz domain authority / page authority, that they often update their algorithm meaning these metrics can jump up or down over time. It may be best to also (or in replacement of) tracking domain and page authority, to track other metrics such as linking root domains, social analytics, etc.
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There is something similar in SEOmoz Pro, whereby if you add competitors, you can their SEOmoz off-page metrics historically. It's just a bit buried, found under Link Analysis > History.
It does have some obvious drawbacks, mostly out of the fact that you can only track 3 competitors. The history runs for as long as you have SEOmoz setup though. If you wanted to track more, you might look at a simple spreadsheet implementation of the SEOmoz API (lots of people on the blog have pulled this off in various was using Excel, and even Google docs, like here: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/updated-tool-seomoz-api-data-for-google-docs). Then you could compare as many as you wanted using spreadsheet functions, without any real programming knowledge.
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