Domain Authority
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Hello everyone,
My question is: is there any manual way to increase domain authority, rather than link building to domain (homepage) ?
Thanks
Eugenio
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Howdy,
Great question! First of all, I recommend reading this official article on Domain Authority:
http://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority
Domain Authority is primarily a link-based metric, so external links to your website are going to influence more than anything. But Domain Authority is also a combination of all our other metrics, such as MozTrust, so the quality of the links that you build is important as well.
Unfortunately, there are no shortcuts. Building your reputation by acquiring links from other high authority, trusted domains is the best way to increase your Domain Authority. It's a hard route, but the rewards are lasting.
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thanks dario,
I also found this good article about the subject
http://bloggingzene.com/domain-authority-increase-tips/content seems to be the fastest solution
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I think that if you write a big web with lots of pages and links in them, you also increase authority, but i am not sure. I think mainly and unfortunately is by link building
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