Moz crawl error? DA & Linking domains significant drop.

[Matt.Carwow]

Hi guys!

Our site www.carwow.co.uk appears to have been punched in the face by the latest Moz update. It's claiming our #linking root domains has dropped from 225 to 135 and has subsequently hit our DA from 38 to 35.

We haven't disavowed any links and our off-site strategy has been going well the past 2 months. Search performance has increased by around 15% (around 5k sessions) and rankings have improved week on week.

Any idea if this is a Moz error? That's almost a 50% drop in linking root domains.

Thanks,

James

[KeriMorgret]

The good news is that the search engines don't use the Moz metrics in their updates, if that makes you feel any better. It could be that we just didn't crawl some of the domains that we crawled previously. I haven't seen any other reports of lots of linking root domains missing. Could you send in an email to help@moz.com so we can send it to the proper team to make sure there wasn't an error in the latest update?

Thanks!

Keri

[mathamatix]

My domain authority dropped by 2 points and page authority dropped by 1. From what I gather DA/PA are meaningless metric but I suppose it feels good for both to be high.

[Matt.Carwow]

Great - thanks Keri & mathamatix. I'll ping over an email to help@ now.

JP