How to Increase Website Authority (Domain Rating)
If you want to rank higher in Google and get more organic traffic to your website, you might have read that increasing your website authority is the solution. However, the truth is that while increasing website authority is never a bad thing, increasing the score itself shouldn’t be your primary focus. Instead, you should focus on what causes the score to rise: that’s high-quality backlinks from authoritative websites. What is website authority? (Domain Rating) Website authority is a metric from SEO tool providers. It measures the relative strength of a site’s backlink profile compared to every other site in their index. Pretty much every major SEO tool has this metric, but its name and the way it’s calculated differs in each one. At Ahrefs, our website authority metric is Domain Rating (DR). Like most other website authority metrics, it runs on a scale from 0-100. SIDENOTE. You can check your domain’s authority by plugging it into our free website authority checker. Now, it’s essentia...