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Hello there,

The metric Domain Authority is calculated in total different way then the previous version, so you should not compare the previous DA with the current one, don't panic. You should interpret this as a relative metric to your competitors. So please check how the DA of your competitors is.

The DA also doesn't infect visibility and rankings in Google, it's only a relative metric. Our website https://www.denhollandsche.nl had a DA of 33 yesterday, we went to 25. Our competitors had a better DA in the previous DA  and today we noticed they went further down than ours.  This also happend at my other site https://www.buydrinks.nl

So as we expected, this feels as a way of justice for our hard work and the new DA seems to be more trustworthy.

Best regards

Simon Janssen

Hello,

That's not correct. I have a feeling that the previous version contained a lot of spammy backlinks and they were part of the index too. We, on the other hand, have claimed backlinks through publications, press releases (the proper way) and never had the feeling we got rewarded for this effort. Competitors had claimed backlinks through linkbuilding campaign by marketing agencies. Their backlink profiles contained a lot of spammy links affecting the DA in a positive way. In my opinion that has changed.

So working hard refers to claiming backlinks as you should by blogging, press releases.

Best regards,

Simon