Seeing some really bad sites that ranked in my niche years ago reaching 1st page

[johan8]

It started after the update about 4 websites form the 1st page dropped to the 2nd and 4 of the other sites just popped back to the 1st page and the bad part is that the Da and inbound links of these sites are really bad, so my question is must we just wait this out till Google realises how bad these site are and some of them haven't been updated in years links broken i can go on and on. what these sites have is just the age of the domains, but can this really be the main focus of these results?

[EGOL]

DA is not always a good metric for determining who should rank.  Age of the domain means even less.

Low DA websites can beat Amazon if they have good content and a good reputation based upon visitor metrics.

If you are being beaten, the first place that you should look is to the quality of your website and the quality of your content.  Is the website and its content the most valuable to the searcher?  Does it provide the information that they need, presented in a clear and easy to understand and easy to use format?  If not, get to work.