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These links are not what I would called "money term" or anchor text" the links are all to a section of our site that offers a particular service.

Thanks for all your help on this.

Thanks for your feedback Egol,

I have been searching around and I am slightly worried that a recent back link from a guest blog on a website with lower domain authority could be dragging us down and it may have a long term affect on our rankings.

They have created a link to our site on their homepage so every article that they publish is sending us a link. They publish about 10 - 15 articles a day so we are now getting 15 links a day from a a site with domain authority of 25.

Could this be the cause of our falling Domain Authority and will it affect our keyword rankings. I have worked pretty hard to get them ranking so highly and I want to nip any negative affects in the bud ASAP.

At the start of August my Domain Authority was 52 but it has fallen to 46 over the course of 8 weeks.

At first this was credited to the smaller index that SEOMOZ has taken and when this was certainly in line with our rivals results as well who all suffered a drop. When the index issue was fixed we did see an improvement, back up to 51 at the start of September, pretty much in line with all of our rivals.

However our Domain Authority has dropped again and this time it is in complete isolation, none of our rivals have suffered anything like a 3 point drop.

Our SEO has never been better with 65% of our keywords ranking in the top 3 and 86% ranking in the top 10.

Im wondering what is causing this rapid drop in Domain Authority and what affect, if any, it was have on our future keyword rankings.

Thanks,

Emmet

Hi Keri,

Its back up to 51 now, thanks very much for all your help on this!

Hi Keri,

Our industries Domain Authority took another tumble when I checked this morning. Is this related to the same changes?

We are now back to 47 which wipes out all of the gains we made in 2013.

Thanks for your continued support on this.

Thanks very much for the prompt and very precise answer. I will continue to try and build our Domain authority and hope that we can gain on the competition in the next update.

However this does not seem to be in isolation. All of my competitors websites have taken a similar 1 or 2 points hit.

I am thinking that as an industry we may have been affected by a mutual linking site being taken down, redesigned or just loosing its own domain authority.

We do rank well for our keywords and we have been on a continual rise since I took over in January, we do a little bit of a guest blogging and I am trying to build links to the site but I am doing it slowly.

Would anyone else have an idea on what has happened that would cause 4 sites in the same industry to take a 1 or 2 point hit?

Thanks,

Emmet

However this does not seem to be in isolation. All of my competitors websites have taken a similar 1 or 2 points hit.

I am thinking that as an industry we may have been affected by a mutual linking site being taken down, redesigned or just loosing its own domain authority.

We do rank well for our keywords and we have been on a continual rise since I took over in January, we do a little bit of a guest blogging and I am trying to build links to the site but I am doing it slowly.

Would anyone else have an idea on what has happened that would cause 4 sites in the same industry to take a 1 or 2 point hit?

Thanks,

Emmet