How to Increase Domain Rating (Website Authority)
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
- In this video, you’ll learn the three core factors that’ll improve your website’s link authority in a meaningful way.
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If you’re new to the concept of website authority, it’s actually a made up metric from SEO tool companies.
Now, whether you call it Domain Rating, Domain Authority, website authority, or whatever, they all serve the same general purpose: they try to measure the relative “strength” of a website’s backlink profile compared to other sites in their index.
Now, while some tools claim that their website authority metric can predict a website’s ranking potential, you should take that with a grain of salt.
SEOs generally agree that website authority does play somewhat of a factor in rankings. However, Google ranks pages and not websites. So having a goal to improve Domain Rating is too broad and could actually make you lose focus from your true goal of ranking in Google and getting more organic traffic.
By putting the focus at the website level instead of the page level is like painting your whole house just to make your bathroom look good. It might work to a certain extent, but 90% of your efforts actually have no effect on the end goal.
Now, the things that cause an increase in your website’s authority can help you rank higher in Google. And it all comes down to the main thing responsible for calculating this metric. And that’s links.
So, let’s expand on Ahrefs’ website authority metric called Domain Rating.
Domain Rating represents the overall strength of a website’s backlink profile. We look at both quantity and quality of the links pointing at a website. It’s plotted on a logarithmic scale from 0 - 100.
What are the 3 main things that impact this score?
They are:
► number of unique websites that link to you
► Domain Ratings of linking domains
► number of sites the referring website links to with at least one followed link
How do you improve your score? You’ll learn how in this video.
Timestamps:
0:34 - What is website authority?
2:00 - Ahrefs Domain Rating (DR score)
3:01 - Impact of referring domains
3:27 - Why the authority of referring domains matter
4:35 - Importance of outgoing links from referring domains
6:39 - Primary things to focus on for better rankings
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Welcome back, Sam. Just the thing I was looking for my newly launched blog. Thanks a ton...
Hope our videos help you with your efforts =)
- Max
You are genius,you have taught me a lots within 24 hours I have started watching your videos,you the best of all the UA-cam Rd,you are better than Neil Petel
Thanks!
Interesting information! Everything is clear and accessible as usual!
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Love the Content you deliver to us, What a Great informative content !
Glad you enjoy it!
Hey Sam!
Great to hear from you on this topic. Really major factor to measure the website.
You're welcome!
Dude your getting too good at this! That rank up analogy had me pumped.....
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Easy to understand. Will spend time to watch all tutorials. 🙏
Glad it was helpful!
Hi all, at the risk of some finger wagging I just want to honestly throw my experience into the conversation. After two years of publishing high quality content and getting thousands of backlinks, my Moz da was stuck at 13. I hired someone in Fiverr to raise is for $50, a huge risk I know. Two weeks later my da was 53. I think all they did was submit my site to country-specific Googles around the world. Absolutely zero difference to my ranking or monthly visits.
Thanks Sam, another amazingly informative video :)
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Man, you explain in the easiest way!❤❤❤
Thank you!
Hi Sam the video is awesome!! Thank you so much!!
You're welcome!
People get old, but Sam is getting young day be day..😁
Literally 👌
Right 😁
Forever young! =) That's all about our Sam! =P
- Max
Another Benjamin Button
He should make a video about his morning bath routine
Great Video! Thank you for sharing.
Our pleasure!
I'm from Bangladesh . I watch almost all your videos. You give a lot of deep information. 👍👍
Thanks!
Very Informative as always.
Glad it was helpful!
Just signed up for a free trial and am thoroughly impressed.
Try this video, it may help: ua-cam.com/video/q0Ujy3EN0lk/v-deo.html
-Helen
Backlinks are my biggest SEO challenge. Feels like cold calling for a startup. However, Ahref content helps a lot. Thanks!
Sometimes it is a tough task, but still worth your investments
- Max
@@AhrefsCom I second that. Linking building is not something easily accomplished, but it is for good reasons. Google pays attention to the sites that are pointing to yours. If it were easy, then everyone would rank and SERPs would have no meaning. Leg work makes the pegs work!
This is best video of my life about backlinks ❤
Wow! We have more such videos - don't forget to browse our channel for more ;)
-Helen
again nice tutorial, Sam!
Thanks!
Good stuff! Thanks!
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Another excellent video...thank you
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Bravo.I think You are one of the best seo expert on youtube
Thanks!
Fellow SEOs: We have a bigger client who we just did an SEO Site Audit for, and it was discovered that they have several domain names that are simply 301 redirecting to their main domain name. One of their domains in particular is decades old, and the client is asking if there is any value in keeping it (and the others), or simply leaving them as-is. Considering the domain age, does anyone have any recommendations?
Definitely, UR helps more to understand a website's performance and impact of getting links. NIce
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good information. Thank you. ❤
Glad it was helpful!
This is really *solid* advice from you guys as always.
Glad you think so!🙌
-Helen
Video very helpful, thanks
You're welcome!
Hey Sam!
Again Great Stuff thanks for the video.
I hope you are going good. thanks for being with us. I hope we will get the best support from you. all time. #stayhome
Hey! Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed the video!
- Max
Amazing video, very informative
Glad you think so!
Awesome information thanks
You're welcome!
Very informative video. Thanks
Our pleasure :)
-Helen
Informative!
Thank you!
Great info, working on how to improve DR for my website
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Best information on DR love it..
Thank you!
great information Sam
Thank you!
I have come to know that Sam can speaks slowly as well 😂
Its clear, more engaging, and helpful to remember the metrics as we are not fast enough to remember everything like Ahref bot
Sorry, your all videos are helpful and valuable but I can't help being humorous to give suggestions (if I have)
Thanks! 😃
Great, Thanks for Sharing, Love from Pakistan
You're welcome!
Should we get link from high spam score website? For eg. DA 40, Spam Score 35+
Sam, thanks bro for this video
You are more than welcome ;)
Great information ❤❤
Glad you liked it!
-Helen
“Google ranks pages, not websites” so much gold here, Thanks.
You're welcome!
Please spin your finger for intro, Sam. Real sam always does that
You are not the first one who asked for that spinning move =) We will think about that;)
- Max
Hello Sam, thanks for this great information about DR
Do links from irrelevant high authorities websites help increase my ranking, or they are useless/dangerous?
Watch this video: ua-cam.com/video/E3mDlVutW_o/v-deo.html
- SQ
Hey sam, good to see you again
Hey Waseem =)
I am glad you keep an eye on our channel as usual =)
- Max
Hey, backlinks directs to a page which have blog post, will it increase DR also?
Or for increasing DR, backlinks refering the direct domain, not a blog post are required?
I'm not sure what you're asking exactly, but DR measures the link popularity of a "domain", so as long as the link is pointed at a domain (or a subfolder/subdomain), it should be fine.
- SQ
Sam, Wellcome back 👍
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Excellent content as always! Question: You've most likely made a video about this so if you can kindly point me in the direction. Here's what I want to do. I have a client who has 3 great pieces of content on his website blog. They are very shareable kind of content, so we want to try to get backlinks and shares of these posts.
How can we do that? Also, if someone posts this same content on their website (for backlink) is that bad? Is there a service we can also BUY to help spread the message of the article as well. I've tried fat joe ($2,000+ Spent), can't say I'm a huge fan of them.
Thank you like I said, if you know exactly what it is that I'm trying to do and you have a video about it, that would be great thank you.
Sounds like you're looking for help with link building, and we have tons of videos about it here: ua-cam.com/play/PLvJ_dXFSpd2tjUTuAHpHidz5e2hAedP_m.html
- SQ
I became a fan of your content. The value of your content is very high level, you can create an SEO course. Sam, how about that 😏 ?
This is something we currently work on ;) Thank you for a kind feedback =)
- Max
Wow... I'm glad I watched this.
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Do I need any other SEO tool or not ? If yes then which tool I need apart from this ? Please kindly recommend. Thank you
Ahrefs should be more than enough. I guess your tool-set depends on your activities and workflows.
- Max
nice mug - ive got the same one!
Nice! Personally love this mug :)
-Sam
Hey Sam!
Again Great Stuff thanks for the video.
But I want to ask you one thing last month my website backlinks numbers is 5.46k, Referring Domain 526 and DR is 54.
Currently, website backlinks numbers are 7.86k, Referring Domain 572 and DR is 52.
Why my website DR is decreased?
The answer is in this video ;) Not just the number matters, but the quality as well. A domain with DR 20 that links to just 10 websites may bring you much more value than domain with DR 50 that links to another 10,000 domains. So your DR is influenced by referring domains and its authority too. If some referring domains lost its authority, they would pass less 'link juice' to you as well, which will lead to a possible drop in your DR, even though your number of referring domains has not changed.
- Max
Thanks for your guidance. Can't wait for the next video. Sam you are beauty love you
You should also tell people to create good quality content which is the main thing in SEO.
This is the essential value - good content. Everything else goes next ;)
- Max
@@AhrefsCom definitely
Hello Sam, You r doing great.
I wanna ask that recently you revealed in a video that ahrefs "KD" only accounts for number of backlinks and not for quality of backlinks.
It means a website having 5000 spammy backlinks made through a tool will have high domain authority in eyes of Ahrefs?
Nope. DR and KD are unrelated. Also, DR looks at referring domains and not backlinks.
-Sam
@@AhrefsCom Sir in your video of "How reliable is keyword difficulty" You have said in the middle of video that KD and DR are relative metrics.
and referring domains can have low quality content too. Most Importantly,DR also relies on number of referring domains and not on quality of referring domains. So if 500 low quality domains refer to a website then that website will have high authority in eyes of ahrefs?
@@AhrefsCom I dont see much difference between referring domains and backlinks. 1 refering domain can have multiple backlinks. but point is refering domain is also a backlink
Hi
For a new blogger will the KGR technique be useful after doing the keyword difficulty research in ahref ?
Kindly suggest..
Keyword difficulty research is part of KGR, where you still evaluate your chances to rank for certain long tail keywords.
- Max
Hi Sam,
Great information. But I have seen many websites with high DR (greater than 50) with no organic keywords and traffic. Why doesn't these sites get enough traffic even with high DR?
As mentioned in the video, DR is a measure of link popularity. That means it doesn't measure anything about organic keywords or traffic. Which also means that a high DR doesn't necessarily mean you'll rank high in Google (there are other factors involved.)
- SQ
My DA increase from 14 to 34. Then the dumb me deleted some articles and the DA went back to 15. Can I recover it?
Love you Sam 💞💞
The websites in my niche don't do guest posting, what should i do for backlinks?
Check out our link building playlist for different link building ideas: ua-cam.com/play/PLvJ_dXFSpd2tjUTuAHpHidz5e2hAedP_m.html
- SQ
Good!
Thanks!
Thanks
You're welcome!
Great video! I have a question though. Can having too many backlinks from one low quality domain hurt your ability to rank? (like having 5000 backlinks from a single website with a DR of 0)
This is very much an "it depends" kind of question. Generally speaking, I wouldn't worry about it much unless there's clear damage that's been done.
-Sam
Nice video
Thank you!
Anyone know how a Google.business website has UR 13 DR 92 with zero backlinks? (6 non-unique keywords).
I have checked ahref for my client site it was around 370k visitors on February 2020 and now when i check , now in the graph of traffic it is showing below 300k in February time, what happened to ahref? Any data base updates?
Yes, we update keyword data using new data sources, which influences average monthly search volume. Traffic estimation changes along with search volumes as well.
- Max
Sam, would you do a video about UR and comparison of it to the actual Google PageRank? It's crazy but nobody talks about that :(((
I guess only Google can make such a video as they are the only ones, who knows what stands behind the PageRank. Ahrefs came up with an alternative metric UR which helps to compare the backlink profile of two different pages.
- Max
_Great working Website Ahref_
Thanks
you wearing a hoodie in summer (29 in singapore) ??
Sam's not based in Singapore 🙂
- SQ
Best part of video " Google rank pages not website"
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People get so confused by this but it explains such an important concept.
sam please where do i buy quality back links
We do not recommend buying links.
-Helen
I didn't understand one thing correctly. Is a backlink better on a homepage or a subpage of a website? I don't speak English very well and it confused me a bit.
There's no straight answer. It depends on your goal.
- SQ
@@AhrefsCom The goal is to get the eshop to a better position in the search. we focus on the sale of gastronomic equipment. And we have no backlinks. therefore we have a small page ranting. Your video offers an answer. But I didn't understand her :)
Hello, please discuss indexing. No one is giving a better explanation. Wondering why some posts don't get index and no reasons to why it's not by Google
how long does the domain rating take to increase after ahrefs records a backlink?
It depends on many factors. DR may even stay the same if your competitors built more links at the same time. You can read more about DR here: help.ahrefs.com/en/articles/1409408-what-is-domain-rating-dr
-Helen
Hello sir actually i work a keyword which keyword dificulty is 3 and i make 20 backlinks and my compititior make 0 backlinks and my compititiors ur is 15 and my ur js 20 but my site is only 37 days old. But i cant beat my compititor why sir......
You need to watch this video again. Higher UR does not mean you will rank higher for 100%. There are numerous other ranking factors.
- Max
@@AhrefsCom thanks sir .....
How much backlink should I build daily?
It's not about the frequency of backlinks you build daily, but the number of relevant backlinks you can get to a page.
- SQ
Sir can u please make a video on online reputation management and how to create wiki pages and get accounts verified
Not our field of expertise.
- Max
@@AhrefsCom sir can u help me out with indexing my web2.0 links fast
in fact the domain authority is a factor for moz.com , not google .
unfortunately the most of webmasters attention to the domain authority rather than : user friendly or page speed or UI ....
Ranking 'miracle' is a combination of content, links, page speed and numerous other things. So you should care about all of these aspects in order to be a leader in your niche ;)
- Max
Which web hosting does ahrefs uses?
We use OVH services
- Max
@@AhrefsCom Thanks :)😊
Hello Sam!
I need your help🙋
My wordpress site is fully optimized but unable to add far future expiry to my site.
I also used many plugins for this but they don't work. Will you please help me to solve this far future expiry. As it slowing down my site speed.
Hope will you me sam👍
Thank you 😊
Please reach out to plugin developers for assistance. Not something we can help you with= \
- Max
@@AhrefsCom ok Sam it's ok...👍 I will do this
Does ranking increase DR?
Not exactly. Here's the article about how we calculate Ahrefs DR: help.ahrefs.com/en/articles/1409408-what-is-domain-rating-dr
-Helen
Does DR ignore 'nofollow' links?
Yes
How will you build links from authoritative websites with a new website?
We have a video on how to build links to a new website: ua-cam.com/video/3sF-m5LKCf4/v-deo.html Maybe it helps 🙏
-Helen
Hello please reply..
Is it possible, 40 thousands high quality refral domain backline in 1 year ( with white hat SEO)
Nothing is impossible, of course, but 40,000 referring domains is very, very (and I repeat, very, very) difficult to achieve in one year. In fact, I think it'll be difficult even if the timeline is 5 years.
- SQ
@@AhrefsCom thank for reply then is it possible rank 300000 keywords in top 5 ( 5 difficulty keyword) if I have very larger and experienced SEO team?
Sam = legend.
😄
I want the ahrefs hoodie!
It's for our employees only.
- SQ
@@AhrefsCom Haha You guys hiring? *Hands Sam Ahrefs Optimized Job Application*
Create same for UR or page Authority.. please
Added that to our list of topic ideas 🙂
- SQ
If a website is one page static site then how can we build links for pages as there are no pages on it. The motive is to rank different keywords what would be the strategy. Website example textgeneratorguru.com
You still have one page :) Pages can rank for thousands of relevant keywords. Would require some research, but I recommend you watch this video. ua-cam.com/video/OMJQPqG2Uas/v-deo.html
-Sam
Sam, create a video about AdSense approval
Not our field of expertise, but maybe in future
- Max
Does Sam one of the co-founders of Ahrefs?
He's not.
- SQ
thank you from Ukraine!!!
Our pleasure! ❤
-Helen
Why not ahrefs offer low cost services. We are use only shared account most of ahrefs.
Shared accounts are against our Terms of Service.
- SQ
HOW GOOGLE RANKING YELLOW PAGES DIRECTORIES LIKE JUST DIAL, INDIA MART (IN INDIA) they do not write any content.....................how this is happening can you explain..............without writing content they rank for many keywords how this is happening...............
Content doesn't necessarily mean blog posts. It also means content on pages like landing pages, category, product, etc. I'm sure these sites create "content", perhaps not in the model you're thinking of.
- SQ
Website authority and DR by ahrefs and moz tools can be easily manipulated, but thats not case of google
Please make video on google eat
We have a post on it: ahrefs.com/blog/eat-seo/
But we'll consider it a video version. Thanks for the feedback!
- SQ
I can breath now!
🙃
How to get rid of bad backlinks|?
You can reach out and ask the site to remove them (difficult) or disavow them (be careful of doing this.)
- SQ
I'm missing your laptop. =)))
😂
Ohh yeh
Did you like this one? =)
- Max
@@AhrefsCom yes
I was getting warmed up on working on my DR, then this video came. Are you reading minds now? :/
Well the message of the video isn't to focus on improving DR. It's to focus on what actually improves that score (links) :)
Increasing DR will be the byproduct of that.
-Sam
@@AhrefsCom yeah. Ahref's videos are always rocking. Thanks to Sam and the team.
Before expend a domain
You must learn to control your cursed energy properly.
How my Dr had dropped?