SEO Question

[mrodriguez1440]

If you Google - "San Diego DUI Lawyer" (a competitive term), this guys site comes up:

sandiegoduiattorneys.weebly.com/san-diego-dui-lawyer.html

Run his site in Opensite Explorer and you won't believe the results.  This guy somehow has as much domain authority as Facebook, and maybe more than Moz.  How is this possible?

How is he getting all those links from random Weebly sites?  I'm not saying I want to copy him, but I think it's highly problematic that somehow that site has been rigged to get all that link juice.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

[KeriMorgret]

This is one flaw of OSE, that domains like wordpress.com, blogger.com, weebly.com, etc. have high domain authority that don't necessarily have any influence on the subdomain in the eyes of the search engines.

Also in OSE, make sure that you're only looking at links to the subdomain, not to the root domain (which would be all of weebly.com).

[CommT]

Thank you Keri - I suspected that this was the case. It is good to have it confirmed by you.