The best ways to increase domain authority

[HMK-NL]

Dear all,

What are the best ways to increase domain authority?

Thanks in advance,

Ben

[Mike.Goracke]

Hi Ben,

According to SEOmoz -

"Unlike other SEO metrics, Domain Authority is difficult to directly influence. This is because it is made up of an aggregate of metrics (mozRank, mozTrust, link profile, etc...) that each have an impact on this score. This was done intentionally because this metric is meant to approximate how competitive a given site is in Google.com. Since, Google.com takes into account a lot of factors, a metric that tries to calculate it must incorporate a lot of factors as well.

This means the best way to influence this metric is to improve your overall SEO. Particularly you should focus on your link profile (which influences mozRank and mozTrust) by getting more links from other well linked to pages."

Hope this helps.

Mike

[CommT]

I think you need to build more links. Am looking for a quick fix on this myself as our domain authority has recently taken a battering - we lost some links so it's probably down to that.