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        • ProMOZ123
          ProMOZ123 last edited by

          Hello, our domain authority dropped significantly overnight from 37 to 29. We have been building good links from high DA sites and producing regular, good quality content.

          Anyone able to offer any ideas why?

          Thanks

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          • BeckyKey
            BeckyKey last edited by

            Care to share how? 🙂

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            • Deacyde
              Deacyde last edited by

              I'm still a bit confused, as I've checked our DA elsewhere and get the same results. A 10 point drop, so I'm not really sure of the real numbers here.

              Was my DA wrong before today or is Today and onwards going to be wonky until the index issue settles?

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              • BeckyKey
                BeckyKey @TimHolmes last edited by

                Can I just confirm, if you're DA has dropped after this update - are they referring to you as one of the low quality sites that Moz were crawling too frequently?

                Or, are they saying because they were crawling these sites, using up crawl budget - they couldn't crawl all our pages effectively? I still don't understand why our authority would drop after this however?

                Thank you

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                • BeckyKey
                  BeckyKey @2MSens last edited by

                  I have also seen the same thing on a number of sites I'm monitoring.

                  Is this just an estimate from Moz? Or will it affect us in Google?

                  Thank you

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                  • TimHolmes
                    TimHolmes last edited by

                    This will likely be due to the new index that was released, your domain authority is relative to the index and sites contained in the index. The new index was smaller, but is now fixed and will likely give you more accurate figures.

                    https://a-moz.groupbuyseo.org/community/q/new-mozscape-index-released-learn-just-what-s-been-going-on

                    https://a-moz.groupbuyseo.org/blog/mozscape-index-2015

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                    • ProMOZ123
                      ProMOZ123 last edited by

                      Hi both,

                      Thanks for your responses. Think a few of our clients have also gone down, but not as drastically. Website speed is fine and everything seems normal, so not sure what to make of it.

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                      • TheZenAgency
                        TheZenAgency last edited by

                        Domain Authority is always worth measuring against competitors rather than just as a metric on its own. Do you know what happened to your competitors  DA overnight?

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                        • 2MSens
                          2MSens last edited by

                          I've seen the same on some websites I'm tracking...

                          The only one who get the most links, and powerfull ones from press (due to RP and launch of new unique contents) lost 2 points.... Weird!

                          Does the DA takes into account the speed of the website? Because that's the only thing which changed (had a bug with the cache plugin)...

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