Comments on: Can you trust Domain Authority and Page Authority metrics?

By: ozsubasi

ozsubasi — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:23:00 +0000

I use OSE in conjunction with PR when considering where to try to place links. But my concern is that the number of links taken into consideration for PA/DA is low compared to what Google finds in webmaster tools for my site – ıt’s only about 40% of them. It isn’t just the number of links but that many of my high PR ones are not included but most of my lower PR ones are. So that anyone carrying out similar research as me will not get a true picture of my site. Equally (assuming that I’m not alone in this) when I am looking at another site, I’m not getting the full story either.

By: Nemek

Nemek — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:55:55 +0000

Hi Royur, thanks for your comment.

You’re right, we received a message from SEOmoz that they have looked into this and apparently the scores have been updated now.

By: Royur

Royur — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 09:31:39 +0000

Hmm… When I check the data, its different from yours…

My Linkscape data show mygoutdiet.com DA: 11 and brisbane.com.au DA: 79

By: Nemek

Nemek — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:25:04 +0000

I agree with you Jose that looking at raw link-related metrics seems to be more helpful in many cases. I’ve found the number of linking root domains to be a useful indicator (in combination with Page Rank data it can be used to spot sites penalized for link selling).

By: jose leite

jose leite — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:00:31 +0000

I do not use those metrics to check the links. I would prefer to check indexed pages and PR instead of evaluating the DA or PA. Also check the inbound links in Google (also not perfect) but at least you’ll not live with a maybe wrong data info.
Jose Leite

By: Suisse Gold

Suisse Gold — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:47:38 +0000

One site I noticed on OSE…wwwr.creditsuissegold.org

Linking Root Domain: 1 – Itself!
Total Links : 12 !!

Domain Authority: 100!!!!