Domain Authority

[TravG]

I do not know a lot about Domain Authority and trying to do a little research on it. AS far as our industry, what would say is a high domain authority, medium and low. My website vary by roughly 15 points or so for domain authority. Obviously my main site has the highest which is about 38, as a standard is that considered about middle of road, low? What would you say?

[Christiaan]

Are you talking about the Moz Domain Authority? There are multiple companies giving authority scores.

[TravG]

Yes the Moz I believe. The same as used here in your public profile. It says it is by MozScape.

[Glueck]

To be honest I do not belive in Moz DA anymore.
I have seen a lot of really spammy websites with an almost Xrumer based linkprofile with high DA. Focussing of getting links from pages with a high DA will sooner or later cause a punishment if you do not pay special attention to a lot of other factors.

I prefer majesticsseo's "trustflow" chart.

[baldidiot]

All of these third party statistics (eg: seomoz) are just guesswork anyway, they don't actually relate to rankings or traffic. You can have a 40+ DA site with bugger all rankings and a 10 DA site that's top 3 for a hollywood term.

When google (ok, Matt Cutts) talk about authority they mean something completely different. From my understanding your site is either an authority on a subject or it isn't - I have no idea how it's worked out though (and apparently I read somewhere that this can be manually added to a site)...

This past year they've also been talking about niche authority - ie: authority within a specific niche. So if you're the dogs bollocks in knitting, your 50 page knitting site with a handful of incoming links may be considered authoritative.

[baldidiot]

(I stopped caring about PR, DA, and whatever else they come up with a long time ago...)

[slotshustler]

Is there a "best" way to get authority?

[Rostick]

not too relevant