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What do feel is a low DA number on ahrefs?

by Murkr
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I keep reading to get links from high DA sites. However, i dont really see anywhere that tells what number is a high or low DA.

is a site with DA 30 low, or is it a site with DA 50 considered low?

and what is high DA site 60+?

basically what im doing now is finding home improvement blogs with DA 60+ to consider as high quality, does that sound accurate?
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  • Profile picture of the author DABK
    You're going about it the wrong way. Find a related business, get them to link to you from anywhere. It's best if they link from a page that has backlinks. Don't think just SEO, think growing your business.

    By that, I mean: look for sites that might send you visitors too.

    Don't look at DA and PA, instead, look at the content on the site: does it look like the site owner slapped something in a hurry or did they put some thought into it?

    I have a site in the mortgage business. Gets a DA of 29. Which is kind of low. However, when Google was updating PR publicly, my homepage had a PR of 4.

    I looked my homepage in Moz's DA/PR dohickey. They found only 1 link and it's from a spammy site. I've created some 65 links to the homepage and a handful to other pages. And, if you google my site in quotation marks, there's some 300 'domain value,' 'who own this site' kind of sites that have a link to the domain.

    Plus, it 'thinks' my site might be spammy because there's not enough marking up in relation to the size of the site, which is a funny, funny criteria.

    So, I looked up some very common sites, aol.com, bing.com, bankrate.com and looked at their DA. They all have high DA numbers, but some have higher than others and all of them are as trusty as internet trust can be...

    Oh, Goolge.com alone got 100. Someone tell me how is Google.com more trustworthy than bing.com? or Yahoo.com and a the sites of some of the largest banks in the world?

    Anyway, the lowest DA of the sites like the ones I mentioned was 87. So, I guess, that's a high DA. Since they think might site might be spammy, 29 and less is, for sure, low.

    By the way, if I gave you 1 lousy link from the home page on that site, you'd be jumping to #3 or higher for any city + plumbing keyword you can think of for your site.

    1 link from the home page of 5 or 6 sites with DA and PA of 0 will put you somewhere between 6 to 8 for the city + main keyword of the page the links go to on your plumbing site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Murkr
    Interesting, because DA and PA is what i try to look at when determining if the site is trustworthy, a lot of those common sites you did lookup atleast had a DA of 80+ right? its not like one of those were like DA 40. Though the metrics might not be spot on it shows its at least a little accurate, in my eyes at least.

    I did recently come across a site to try to get a guest post and it did look like it was thrown together quick but it had a DA of 44. in ahrefs it had 0 visitors a month so i would think they might be considered spammy in the future, and im not trying to get a link here. what do you think? Home Improvement

    1 link from the home page of 5 or 6 sites with DA and PA of 0 will put you somewhere between 6 to 8 for the city + main keyword of the page the links go to on your plumbing site.
    doesnt a new site have a DA and PA of 0? so your saying 5 or 6 new sites linking from homepage would rank me? or did i misunderstand that statement?
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    • Profile picture of the author DABK
      Some, that are sites of large businesses that have been around for a long time, have it in the 60's and 70's. Warriorfroum's DA is 76.

      There's a mortgage company around here, they've been in business for over 20 years. A rather large one, dozens of loan officers. They have an old site, from the 90's. They have a DA of 26. My site, direct competitors of theirs, 3 years old, and, trust me, less trustworthy then theirs, gets 29.

      Farmers.com, the site for Farmer's Insurance, only gets 75.

      Walmart.com gets less than amazon.com.

      moz.com, interestingly, gets 91. I think farmer's insurance should sue for emotional damage.

      So, if moz.com gets 91 but farmer's gets 76, it's not accurate.

      And, you're still missing the point. If it gets 3 but Google likes it, does it matter?

      My DA is 12, my PA is 21. And I'm ahead of pages with
      DA of 93 and PA of 43.

      Who should you get a link from?

      You didn't misunderstand. 0 DA and 0 PA can mean the page has no power or that the page has a lot of power. DA and PA, not being Google's measuring sticks, are not relevant.

      You should get links from site that, on the Contact Us page, give contact info beyond info@domain-name.com.

      Originally Posted by Murkr View Post

      Interesting, because DA and PA is what i try to look at when determining if the site is trustworthy, a lot of those common sites you did lookup atleast had a DA of 80+ right? its not like one of those were like DA 40. Though the metrics might not be spot on it shows its at least a little accurate, in my eyes at least.

      I did recently come across a site to try to get a guest post and it did look like it was thrown together quick but it had a DA of 44. in ahrefs it had 0 visitors a month so i would think they might be considered spammy in the future, and im not trying to get a link here. what do you think? Home Improvement



      doesnt a new site have a DA and PA of 0? so your saying 5 or 6 new sites linking from homepage would rank me? or did i misunderstand that statement?
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  • Profile picture of the author rockydx
    Da always helps your domain but if you are looking for better ranking then i would suggest try to google with your niche related website.
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    • Profile picture of the author DABK
      How does DA help a domain?

      Originally Posted by rockydx View Post

      Da always helps your domain but if you are looking for better ranking then i would suggest try to google with your niche related website.
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  • Profile picture of the author dj2ball
    It's simply an interpretation of how much authority the domain will pass to you if it links to your site. That interpretation being Moz's, not Google.

    It's useful as an indicator as to a domain's potential for your PBN but nothing more, and should always be viewed as part of a full slate of metrics.
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