I am sure I have read that it isn't just links, but quite happy for MOZ to put this right.

What makes me thing it isn't just links, is this:

The best way to influence this metric is to improve your overall SEO. In particular, you should focus on your link profile—which influences MozRank and MozTrust

So it says to focus on your link profile, but improve your overall SEO - I would assume from this that it is more heavily biased towards links, but that isn't the end of it.

-Andy

Hi Thomas,

DA isn't just calculated off links, so it could be a wide range of factors making this happen. Moz explain it here:

Domain Authority is Moz's calculated metric for how well a given domain is likely to rank in Google's search results. It is based off data from the Mozscape web index and includes link counts, MozRank and MozTrust scores, and dozens of other factors. It uses a machine learning model to predictively find an algorithm that best correlates with rankings across thousands of search results that we predict against.

I hope this helps

-Andy

Hi  Lily,

I haven't used that myself, but this is the one I like to use - and it's free up to 3,500+ pages (it's dynamic and can be as high as 4,300 pages free).

I would be trying some of the other sitemap generators first to see if they report back the same issues.

-Andy