Why did my website DA fell down?
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Hello,
Could you please let me know why might my website's DA have fallen down in merely a week? What might be a reason? I also noticed traffic from google dropped down at the very same week. Will be very thankful for any advise!
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Sometimes Building backlinks from websites have high spam score might be the reason.
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Hi there! Kristina from Moz's Help Team here.
Sorry to hear about your DA dropping. The reasoning behind this can be hard to pinpoint without the help of an SEO consultant or the specific web designer for your website. Domain and Page Authority scores are both calculated using Moz's Ranking Models. In essence, we take a lot of rankings data from the search engines (by running queries) and then try to build a predictive scoring system using our own on-page analyses and Mozscape link data to construct an algorithm that will effectively reproduce the search engines' results. Our current accuracy hovers in the 70% range, but over time, we expect to improve.
Once we have a ranking model (which we internally call "uber"), we can create scores that best approximate the combinations of all our page-specific link metrics or domain-specific link metrics (removing the keyword-specific features like anchor text, on-page keyword usage, etc). These scores represent the model's query-independent or non-keyword-based ranking inputs.
In simple terms, Domain Authority is our best prediction about how content would perform in search engine rankings on one site vs. another. Page Authority answers the same question for an individual page. Both are amalgamations of all the link metrics (number of links, linking root domains, mozRank, mozTrust, etc.) we have into a single, predictive score.
It's important to note that both Domain Authority and Page Authority are on a 100-point, logarithmic scale. Thus, it's much more difficult to grow your score from 70 to 80 than it would be to grow from 20 to 30.
It is also important to note that if the higher authority sites that your site is seeded from drop in score, it will ripple down to all of the other links branched off from the very top. A good place to start is to compare the DA from the linking root domains from the previous index. Also take a look at your competitors scores to see how much they have dropped as well. As our indexes grow in size, there are more links that are included in our calculations.
We recommend keeping track of how many linking root domains you have from index to index, as this will be a quick way to confirm possible reasons for an increase/decrease in the score. For an in-depth discussion from Rand, check out this article: https://moz.com/community/q/da-pa-fluctuations-how-to-interpret-apply-understand-these-ml-based-scores
Here's some places to really delve into what is going on:
http://moz.com/blog/whiteboard-friday-domain-trust-authority
http://moz.com/blog/googles-algorithm-pretty-charts-math-stuff
http://moz.com/blog/whiteboard-friday-domain-authority-page-authority-metricsHere are some good resources to help you take a look at the factors.
http://moz.com/blog/whiteboard-friday-domain-authority-page-authority-metrics
http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/20902104/Domain%20Authority
http://moz.com/blog/whiteboard-friday-domain-trust-authorityI hope this helps! Sorry I can't go into any more detail, but hopefully these links can help you get a handle on it. Best of luck!
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5 to 1. Yeah then you probably were in the previous batch of data and are not included this time I guess. But do you also see a decrease in organic search traffic as for now you've only based it on this metric for now.
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It was 5, and now it is 1. I am wondering what might have affected it at all? I have a service request form on my website, people used to fill it in, and now I don't get any inquiries at all. Yet I've been doing SEO for three months: I've build backlinks, my social accounts are active, I've optimized titles, meta descriptions, IMG Alts, and website content. Could you please tell me what might have gone wrong?
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Hi,
The Domain Authority metric is only updated every couple of months. So that's why it could be that overtime it can drop a bit more then usual. What are you seeing of a kind of drop?
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