DA of External Link Sites

[Greatmats]

Curious as to how you separate a "good" link from a "bad" one.  I go through Open Site Explorer and see a variety of sites linking to our page.  Some have good Domain/Page Authority and others do not.  When looking for links, where do you determine whether a link from a specific page will help/hurt you in terms of their DA/PA?  Translated another way:  How much DA/PA does a site/page need to have before you decide it will pass good link juice to yours via a link?

[OlegKorneitchouk]

DA/PA are Moz metrics, not used by any of the big search engines. Although there is a correlation between DA/PA and "good" links, it is not enough of a metric to go by. There are plenty of high DA/PA sites whose backlink would be considered "bad" because of the content (e.g. its a blog network, lots of spam, malware, etc).

I would try to get any link from any "real" website, no matter the DA/PA. There are plenty of good new sites who haven't had the time to build up a strong DA/PA but a backlink from them would still be beneficial to have. So if you are unsure about a site, visit it to see how legitimate it is.