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Why does a site have no domain authority?
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A website was built and launched eight months ago, and their domain authority is 1. When a site has been live for a while and has such a low DA, what's causing it?
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Face palm ;). Thanks, Oleg.
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Well there ya have it. DA is mostly based off the authority and quantity of a sites backlinks.
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The crawler isn't blocked; we checked that first. According to SEOmoz and Ahrefs, there's zero backlinks, but it does have some social shares.
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No backlinks? Blocking crawler?
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