Apr 18, 2024

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Achieve a better authority score for your website.

How to Check and Improve Your Website Domain Authority

Most probably, you may heard the term “Domain Authority” many times since you started to lead a website or blog. There are plenty of ways you have to check the domain authority and important measures to boost the score.

Here we learn how you can check a website’s domain authority score and what are the ultimate measures that you need to take in order to skyrocket low domain authority score to higher positions.

What is Domain Authority?

The term Domain Authority (DA) firstly introduced by MOZ. MOZ is an online community and founded by some SEO experts who offer SEO tools and guides for beginners.

Definition: Domain authority or “DA” is a score provided by search engines to predict how likely a website rank on search engine result pages (SERPs). A domain score starts from 0-100. The more score resembles higher ranking possibilities.

Of course, a new website has a very low domain authority and the contents inside the website are really hard to rank on search results. Let’s analyze what we can do to overcome this issue.

Don’t worry if your website has a low domain score. We can take it to higher scores by taking some dedicated measures.

How You can Check the Domain Authority?

As I mentioned earlier, MOZ is initiated the Metrix called Domain authority. So, they have a powerful tool to check the score.

To do checking your domain authority score, simply head over to MOZ and type your domain name, click on the “Analyze Domain” button.

You can see the domain score, and many other ranking factors such as backlinks, Keywords, etc. MOZ is free to monitor any website’s domain score and related data until you meet the daily search limit as a free tool explorer. As a paid member, you can utilize all tools of MOZ as much as you need.

Tools to Check the Domain Authority Other Than MOZ

Here are some tools that you can use to check the domain authority score of a specific domain for free.

Please note that these tools only allow you to search for free until a stipulated limit. 

1. Neilpatel.com

Neilpatel.com is actually an ad agency. Created by one of the famous SEO experts who known as Neil Patel. Neil has been working in this specific niche for the past 20 years. So, I bet you that, Neil can deliver you better SEO-related help through his stunning tool called Ubersuggest, an all-in-one SEO tool that can help you to skyrocket your SEO traffic in simple 3-steps.

To check your website’s Domain Authority score with neilpatel.com, just head over to neilpatel.com and enter your domain name, click on the “Analyze Website” button. Within a few seconds, your website began to crawl, and you will get a detailed data which includes monthly traffic flow, SEO score, backlinks, and many more.

To see your domain authority score by using neilpatel.com you can click on the “Backlinks” button. Here you can see your predicted score and, an in-depth review of your backlinks that come from other websites.

In addition to this, you can also get a list of recommendations from Neil. This can help you to improve your SEO score and followed by more traffic. Moreover, you can see how fast your website is loading on both Mobile devices and Desktops.

2. Ahrefs.com

Ahrefs.com is another SEO tool and resource that can help you to bring more traffic from search engines.

Note that, ahrefs is not a free tool like MOZ and Ubersuggest. You need to be a paid member in order to explore each and every feature of ahrefs.com

However, you can try ahrefs at just $7 for 7 days as a trial.

To check the domain authority score by using ahrefs.com, go to the backlink checker and enter your domain name, then click on the “Check Backlinks” button.

3. Semrush.com

This is another SEO tool that you can deploy to check the domain authority and related Metrix for free. Semrush is not a free tool. You may encounter some sorts of restrictions while you use semrush.com

However, you can check your domain authority score with semrush completely for free.

To check that, go to semrush and enter your domain name, press the “Start Now” button. Right away you may take into sign up page. Because before delivering the overview of your website, you need to create an account with semrush. Might be this will be a marketing trick of semrush to get more customers.

After creating an account with semrush, you will get your domain authority score and related data. This is free to check with semrush.

Is Your Domain Authority having a Good Score?

This is the question that you want to ask yourself once you have checked your website domain authority with the help of any one of the checking tools mentioned above.

Probably I think your answer will be “NO”, and “I want to increase my score strategically”.

Well, this is not only in your case, it is also a major problem in between new website or blog pages.

As I mentioned above, the domain authority score ranges from 0-100, when a website just launches, its score comparatively very lower. However, you can lift your domain authority score gradually by getting more quality backlinks and popularity from other websites and social media networks.

To assure that your score is good enough or not after getting some backlinks and popularity, you can compare your final score with your competitors. If the score higher than your competitors, you did a better job, and you could possibly rank much better on search engine result pages (SERPs). For instance, if your website’s domain authority score is 50 and your competitor’s score is 45, your content will be taken into above of your competitor.

How You Can Improve Your Domain Authority Score?

I know, you need to improve your DA score in order to withstand your competitors. Here is the good news, you can do it simply by initiating some strategic move. Without your smart work and dedication, you can’t surge your domain authority score. So, let’s get started.

1. Get Familiar with the Basics

Let’s get started with the first step. This is nothing much complicated and you can implement this step easily and effectively.

All you need to do in this phase is, you need to be well optimize your website content which is called on-page SEO.

In simple words, to do on-page SEO properly;

  • Use the heading tags properly.

  • Optimize your image size without compromising its quality.

  • Make sure that your website is mobile-friendly because 70% of searches are coming from mobile or tablet devices.

  • Internal linking is most important.

  • Make sure that your content is liked to the other pages of your websites.

  • Ensure that your website loads faster. If not, there is a high chance for an increased bounce rate. This means visitors leave your page due to a slow loading issue. This dramatically decreases your DA score and speed indexing.

So, take additional care in this area. You can migrate to a good host for resolving content loading issues at a cheap rate. Regularly monitor each web page’s performance by using the “PageSpeed Insights” tool – A free tool from Google Developer to analyze the teasing issues that exist with your web pages.

The higher score you achieve the higher you can speed up your loading time. This is considered as the major thing to rank your website higher according to Google’s 2021 algorithm changes.

Once you have done with the all-check points listed above, your website will begin to load faster and you could possibly improve your domain authority score. Don’t forget to check your score after each change you make to understand the improvement.

2. Build More Quality Backlinks

We have been talking about backlinks since the very beginning of this article. Sorry, if you don't know what is backlinks. Backlinks are the links that cite from other websites to your website which can bring a visitor from one site to your website.

What is the difference between backlinks and quality backlinks? You might have this question in your mind at this point. Quality backlinks mean, the links you get from high domain authority score attained websites. These links have much higher value, and this also considered to boost your website's DA score.

To create quality backlinks, you can create in-depth content. The deeper you explain the things through your blog or article post, the more you can expect links from high authority websites. I know this is painful and you need to put lots of time and energy on the back end. But the result will be beyond your expectation. This is a strategic way to bring more quality backlinks to boost your DA score.

Besides, you can promote your content through your email list or social media networks. By following this practice, you can get more visitors and engagement to your post. This could possibly bring you more backlinks in plenty of ways. The more people get to know about your content the more you can expect page views (traffic) and shares.

Moreover, do guest posting on major websites such as Medium and Tumblr. These are high domain authority score attained websites and allows you to do post your content on their behalf completely for free. They may have hundreds of thousands of content posted on their platform daily basis. But don’t worry about that, our aim is to build as much as possible quality backlinks.

See the quality of backlinks that you have achieved by guesting posting high domain authority score websites.

The more quality backlinks you have, the more you can increase your website domain authority.

3. Neglect Low-Quality Backlinks

Our aim is not to build as many as possible backlinks. But always stick with the quality not quantity. Some people lose at this point by building un authorised backlinks. Try to eliminate low quality backlinks and try to attain high quality backlinks.

You can see lots of offers from various freelance service providing websites such as Fiverr and SEO-Clerk. Some of the sellers offer you 100’s or even 1000’s of backlinks for just $10. This is ridiculous. Never get backlinks from such providers. Because these are not legit and the links from these sellers may flag your domain as a spammy one. Never ever try loopholes in the case of building backlinks. It always better for you to lead the legit and natural path.

You can check your domain spam score by using semrush’s free tool.

Conclusion

Congrats… You learned so many new things regarding how you can check domain authority scores with the help of various tools and how you can improve it by following simple steps. Remember that, DA score is only one of the main factors in your content ranking on search engines. There are nearly 200 factors Google considers behind your content ranking. So, try to boost your Domain Authority score as the major thing. The rest you can do accordingly.

If possible, try to optimize your content as deeper as you can. You can also rank your website higher through improved performance if you don’t have enough DA scores. Never give a chance to lose any possibilities. Best of luck!

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