What is Domain Authority?

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Domain Authority is a score (on a 100-point scale) developed by Moz that predicts how well a website will rank on search engines. Use Domain Authority when comparing one site to another or tracking the "strength" of your website over time. They calculate this metric by combining all of our other link metrics linking root domains, number of total links, MozRank, MozTrust, etc....into a single score.

To determine Domain Authority, they employ machine learning against Google's algorithm to best model how search engine results are generated. Over 40 signals are included in this calculation. This means your website's Domain Authority score will often fluctuate. For this reason, it's best to use Domain Authority as a competitive metric against other sites as opposed to a historic measure of your internal SEO efforts.