what is authority site?

what is authority site?
wanted to know about this.
is site with sitelink will call it?

Authority Site is a site that has a lot of content related to one theme. It has a few high quality outbound links pointing to sites that offer similar content and information. It also has a high amount of quality inbound links from sites that are related to your theme.

big ass site that hogs the top of the search engines for whatever keyword it feels like in its niche

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Authority Site is a site in which the contents are featured and google allots them the ranking for same and they are the make up and featured websites.

An authority site is one that covers a niche in a great amount of detail and is revered by the public community. Take cnet for example. They are a huge authority site in the tech niche. People go to their sites to learn about phones, computers, laptops and what not. That is an authority site in the electronics niche.

An authority site will also usually hit the top of search engine results, without any backlinking. All they usually have to do is publish the article or maybe send some inner page links to it. Wikipedia is one huge authority site that is powered by its internal linking structure.

Generally, authority sites are well aged and have content coming out almost every hour or so.

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