Why KD Increased?

[nomokoss]

I created a blog on keyword "Best Digital Piano" 2 months back. It's KD was 18 at that time but now it increased to 28. I'm worried about it. What is the issue? Is there any bug in MOZ?
Please help me.

Thanks!

[DmitriiK]

Hi there,

KD is not a static metric. It very much depends on who ranks for that search. So, if a website with high DA and great backlink profile starts ranking for it on the first page, then competition goes up, and, therefore, the KD score goes up.

Or, even if no new players came to the first page, but if already ranking websites improve their backlink profile, then KD would go up as well. Keep in mind that MOZ's link crawls happen about once a month, so the changes in KD could be more drastic due to that.

Makes sense?