typingnewbie12
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When assessing guest post opportunities I often find websites with high DA but low PA. Do such websites pass little ‘link juice’? Is ‘link juice’ dependent on DA or PA?
Assessing Link Quality
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interlogy
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Forget about DR / DA / Traffic / PA / TF or other metrics which are easy to fake. There is, if at all, a rough guideline of.
Better look at the traffic to see if it's justified. Which keywords rank and whether the page itself is well built (design, functionality, etc.).
And perhaps whether the backlink profile is fine, although this is often beyond the scope.
I am looking for pages with:
- 5k+ traffic
- Traffic coming from multiple keywords (that make sense)
- Good content (no autogenerated / spun shit)
- A good backlink profile (No google redirects or generally mostly unnecessary redirects)
The concept behind DR and UR at Ahrefs is. The higher the DR is, the more rating a subpage gets. For example, with a DR of 0, a subpage will have a UR of 0. With a DR of 30, a subpage will have a UR of about 8.
At a DR of 90, a subpage will have a UR of about 15. In other words, the higher the domain rating, the better a subpage will be rated. That's why pages (without backlinks) from Amazon rank better than a page from you.
Generally, you want to be linked from pages with a high UR. If this metric were accurate - it is not. For $5 you can have your UR faked to 80 on Fiverr.
Better look at the traffic to see if it's justified. Which keywords rank and whether the page itself is well built (design, functionality, etc.).
And perhaps whether the backlink profile is fine, although this is often beyond the scope.
I am looking for pages with:
- 5k+ traffic
- Traffic coming from multiple keywords (that make sense)
- Good content (no autogenerated / spun shit)
- A good backlink profile (No google redirects or generally mostly unnecessary redirects)
The concept behind DR and UR at Ahrefs is. The higher the DR is, the more rating a subpage gets. For example, with a DR of 0, a subpage will have a UR of 0. With a DR of 30, a subpage will have a UR of about 8.
At a DR of 90, a subpage will have a UR of about 15. In other words, the higher the domain rating, the better a subpage will be rated. That's why pages (without backlinks) from Amazon rank better than a page from you.
Generally, you want to be linked from pages with a high UR. If this metric were accurate - it is not. For $5 you can have your UR faked to 80 on Fiverr.
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typingnewbie12
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Gotcha! That makes a lot of sense, thanks for clearing that up!! I guess it comes down to building backlinks from genuine websites with real visitors, with DR/UR representing (inaccurate) approximations.
wblteam
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Agreed. This is exactly the way we vetted every site for our client of authority link building service.