Google doesn’t care about DR.

[milhan SEO]

It cares about:

Relevance
Context
Link placement
Site quality
Trust signals

I’ve seen this many times:

20 “DR 50+” links → no movement
2 strong niche-relevant links → rankings jump

Harsh Truth
Most people aren’t doing SEO.
They’re just decorating reports.

 

[AZ Ranking1]

Dr is just a third party metric by Ahrefs not a ranking signal I've seen DR 10 sites outranking DR 70 giants because of topical authority and better user intent after 8 years in the game i focus on actual traffic and relevance rather than chasing numbers that Google doesn't even see.

 

[proxygo]

Google care only about catching people gaming the system

 

[jelenaitmui9]

did you notice any difference in results when the 2 strong niche-relevant links were from newer sites versus established ones

 

[Wisdomjane]

DR can be a useful metric, but relevant placement, trust and actual quality site matter far more for rankings.

 

[Proxy_Soxy]

did you notice any difference in results when the 2 strong niche-relevant links were from newer sites versus established ones

I wouldn’t judge it by the age of the site alone. I’d rather take a newer site that’s actually active and relevant than an old domain that barely gets updated anymore

The page the link comes from probably matters more than just “new vs established”

 

[vahtang]

Yes. Your post's title says right. DRandDa is not important. Quality and real good traficced web sites are good.

 

[vahtang]

You're spot on; attaining ranking isn't solely dependent on elevated DA. Significent, excellence, and natural traffic hold significent weight as well.

Focusing solely on DR/DA backlink building can even get a site flagged as spam. It used to work, but not anymore...

 

[Linkzo]

It cares about:

Relevance
Context
Link placement
Site quality
Trust signals

I’ve seen this many times:

20 “DR 50+” links → no movement
2 strong niche-relevant links → rankings jump

Harsh Truth
Most people aren’t doing SEO.
They’re just decorating reports.

Valid points. SEO isn’t about collecting links, it’s about earning the right links from the right places. One relevant & trusted placement can be worth more than dozens of random high-metric links.

 

[MarketSellCap]

Exactly. DR is useful for filtering, but it’s still a third-party metric.

I’d rather take one relevant link from a real page with traffic than chase a high DR number just because it looks good in a report.