What is Domain Authority ? - How To Increase it ?

Domain Authority is one o the major factors that Search Engines use to rank your website or blog. It is a measure of the power of your domain name and shows trust on a particular website or blog means whether a website or blog trustworthy or not. Domain Authority is given by SEOmoz and it is quite similar to Alexa Rank and Google Page Rank.

The Domain Authoruty of your blog or website is scaled in the range of 0 to 100. Means the higher the score out of 100, higher is your Domain Authority. Domain Authority basically based depends on three factors i.e.

1. Age of your Website or Blog
2. Number of Pages(size of your website)
3. Number of links(Both Inbound and Outbound Links)

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Domain Authority Vs Page Authority ::

Page Authority is the part of Domain Authority and plays a very important role for judging the performance of your blog or website as well. Page Authority is also scaled in the range of 0 to 100. P.A. refers to measure of the quality of your pages of your blog or website.

How Domain Authority is calculated ?

As I told you above that Domain Authority based on three major factors i.e.

1. Age of your Website or Blog
2. Number of Pages(size of your website)
3. Number of links(Both Inbound and Outbound Links)

 1. Age Of Your Website or Blog ::

Domain age is an important factor to prove Domain' trustworthyness to the Search Engine. As we all know that search engines want to provide users with website results that can be trusted and Domain age plays a very important role in this because it shows the longevity of a particular website and longevity shows the seriousness of adminstrator.

 2. Number Of Pages or Post(size of your website or Blog) ::

The size of your website or blog also a major factor to measure the Domain Authority because it is corealted with the amount of content available on your blog or website. The more number of pages or post will generate the more number of Inbound links and that helps to score better Domain Authority.

 3. Number of Links(Both Inbound and Outbound Links) ::

Inbound Links :: The number of Inbound Links shows the availability and quality of content on your Blor or Website and the popularity of a domain can be measured by the number of Backlinks or Inbound Links. The number of Inbound Links  tells to Search Emgine that the particular blog or website has useful information that is worth sharing. So if you are creating some Back Links make sure that you are using best blogs or website with same niche to your blog or website.

Outbound Links :: Outbound Links can also be a major factor to measure the Domain Authority and always try to make Outbound Links with some genuine sites don't try with low level or spamed websites.

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How To Check Domain Authority ?

There are several tools are available on web to check the Domain Authority of any Website or Blog. And here I have sharing few of them ::

 1. Open Site Explorer ::

Open Site Explorer is one of the best tool to check or measure the Domain Authority score of any website or blog. It also shows the Page Authority, Linking Root Domains, Total Links, Facebook Shares, Facebook Linkes, Tweets, Google+, etc.

 2. Mozbar Toolbar ::

The second one is Mozbar Toolbar Extension. You can use it to measure the score of Domain Authority of any website or Blog. It is an official product of Moz so feel free to use it.

1. Install Mozbar for Chrome
2. Install Mozbar for Firefox

How To Increase Domain Authority Of Your Blog or Website ?

Here I have listed some tips to increase your Domain Authority Score ::

1. Always Create Quality Content
2. Guest Posting
3. Blog Commenting
4. Be Active on Social Networking Sites
5. Submit Your Blog or website to Directories

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