Moz Domain Authority 2 0 Algorithm Update

we are talking about an algorithm update.Now not one from Google but an algorithm update from Moz.Moz have updated the way they calculate domain authority.Its called Domain Authority 2.0. we are looking at Domain Authority2.0, which is a recent domain authority calculation updates from Moz that improvesthe quality of the domain authority scores given.

First of all, what is domain authority anyway?

Domain Authority is a ranking metric or better described as a score that was created by SEO company Moz in order to predict how successful a website would be ranking on Google.It looks at a number of factors, mostly links,which is what Google looks at anyway.The idea behind the score is that the score out of 100 that your website gets shows the likelihood of how powerful your domain is and the likelihood of how well you rank on Google as well.The score plays quite a large part interms of guest blogging when people are out there looking for links and looking who to reach out to build links.Domain authority is a key metric that determines how successful their link building activity will be.If you get a link from a high domain authority website, the likelihood is youll get great power from that link and improve your rankings.If you get a link from a low domain authority website, then its not going to have much impact on your rankings overall and your actual domain authority yourself.These are the two ways you can look at domain authority as a score.More important than that, Moz have updated how they calculate it.Theres going to be some winners and theres going to be some losers as well.However, a lot of the people I track on Moz,who are competitors to my websites and other competitors from other client websites that I look at, their scores have gone down.Ultimately, its hard at the moment to determine specifically what causes scores to increase or decrease.The likelihood is Moz is taking into account the quality of links even more so than they have done previously.Therefore, its a more accurate score.Its a score that better reflects the actual quality of links going to your website.If youve lost, youve got some work to do to start working on some quality links.If youve gained, well done, youve been doing things right.However, its not the be all and end all.As I said, people look at domain authority,but 9 times out of 10 when people look at domain authority in the first instance, its a bit of a misleading and a bit of a vanity metric in lots of ways because ultimately, domain authority doesnt have a direct bearing on how Google sees your website.Its a metric created by Moz to best replicate the authority of websites Google looks at when it comes to ranking websites.Ultimately, Google is the main port of call for how you define how your website ranks and the things you need to look at to improve your website are Googles factors.Thats a really important thing.Domain Authority is a great score.Again, as I say, it leads a lot of metrics in terms of the blogging universe and actually getting links out there and actually showing off the power and authority of your websites and is a good indicator to how likely you willor wont rank for a number of keywords depending on how competitive they are.If your scores going down, it means you have to work on better links.If your scores going up, it means youve been doing things right in Mozs eyes, which hopefully translates over into Googles eyes.In terms of your score going up overnight,youre not suddenly going to goup in rankings overnight because Moz and Google are two different things.Its all about how Google sees you, not Moz.Thats domain authority in a nutshelland its Domain Authority 2.0 in a nutshell too.