Getting organic traffic to any blog or website is most difficult task faced by website owners, hence many people spend time wallowing in time-consuming SEOs techniques, on and off-page optimizations, spending lots of hard earned money paying SEO firms and freelancers to tweak and increase their website rankings and traffic. However some of these things can be done by yourself, all you need to do is read through this article and apply the techniques suggested here fast.
What is Domain Authority?
Domain authority was developed by MOZ, it is a metric that represents the prediction of websites(blogs) that can rank higher in search engines like Google, Bing, Ask and others. This means that the higher your domain authority is the higher you will rank, for instance, if you have a domain authority of 35 and above, this is considered a good domain authority.Domain authority is measured using links to your website. If your website/blog has backlinks pointing to different pages of your blog,your page is likely going to have a higher domain authority, the link you need to get a higher domain authority will not be limited only to your homepage and the authority of websites where you get these backlinks is also considered. These getting 10 backlinks from websites which has high DA of 80 is better than getting 100 backlinks from websites with 0
DA.With this in mind,let's discuss how you can then increase you domain authority now.
Killer Techniques To Increase Your Domain Authority
Before we go in to reveal this simple methods to increase your domain authority, you need to know how to check you domain authority and that of other websites. To do this install the Mozbar extension in your Google Chrome browser here or Mozilla Firefox browser here. You can also easily check your domain authority for free through Moonsy.1. Quality Content Remains the King
I know you have heard of the saying "content is the king" multiple times, yes this is true and it remains king. You cannot expect to be reckon as an authority when all you do is copy and paste, create contents that are high in quality and not quantity. Give a detail explanation of your topic. Use images and videos where necessary to drive home your point. Create lots of linkable contents, this may require you to create articles or infographics everyday, I try to create fresh contents everyday for my photography blog, it is a hard work but this way I grew my domain authority within a very short time applying other SEO techniques.2. Improve The Overall SEO Of Your Blog
You have carried a few SEO techniques and even outsource your articles to freelancer with good knowledge of SEO-Optimised articles without improving the overall SEO of your blog, then you might still have to wait a long time before you can see an improvement in your domain authority ranking.
This is directly recommended by MOZ, to increase your domain authority, you must increase your overall SEO: Your site must be easily navigable, it must contain fresh and original contents, your site structure, breadcrumbs, URL structure, head tags, meta tags, your keywords counts, images and alt tags. All this must be properly optimised.
3. Do Deep Linking
One sure way to build your domain authority fast is to make sure to build all your inner pages of your blog to each other. This simply means linking to other pages of your blog by creating an authority for all the pages you have in your blog. Try to optimize all your pages or each page for specific target keyword.
Build a lot of backlinks to your inner pages, not just your homepage, this sends a signal to Google that your other pages are as important as your homepage. Linking to homepage alone is not enough to get your domain authority high. Aim to get good quality external backlinks from other authority websites on the same page you want to target with a particular phrase, them make sure the links are well-functioning.
4. Build Active Social Presence
Having an active social media presence is one sure way to increase your domain authority, If you have a blog that participates actively on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Your blog will surely get more ranked by Google, as your blog social reach grows more popular, your blog authority will go up albeit gradually.
The more exposure your blog has on the most popular social media like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ the more chances your contents has of getting indexed quickly and thereby receiving high traffic and more social proof as you get more followers and eventually you will see an increase in your domain authority. Read the post on 10 most popular social media that you need to share your blog posts everyday if you need to see an increase in your domain authority.
Google highly recommed that you remove bad and spammy backlinks from your lists of backlinks, one way you can do this, is by using Google Disavow tool to remove these links hurting your blog. This is an advanced tool, so you may probably need to study how it works and seeks the advice of a professional as doing it wrongly will affect your site ranking. It's hard but worths the effort.
5. Remove Spammy Backlinks
In the course of building backlinks to increase your domain authority, you may found out that your blog is getting backlinks from sites considered to be of bad quality by Google, therefore Google considers backlinks from this site as spammy and bad, thereby hurting the ranking of your blog.Google highly recommed that you remove bad and spammy backlinks from your lists of backlinks, one way you can do this, is by using Google Disavow tool to remove these links hurting your blog. This is an advanced tool, so you may probably need to study how it works and seeks the advice of a professional as doing it wrongly will affect your site ranking. It's hard but worths the effort.
6. Patience As Your Effort Pays Off
Once you have carried out the above recommended techniques, the next step is to have patience as domain authority takes time to increase, You cannot expect a site created yesterday to get a high domain authority immediately. Domain authority of a blog depends on it's popularity and age factor which is not being mentioned by most SEO experts.
The older the domain of a blog, the higher it's authority, this does does not mean that an old blog will automatically translate into higher domain authority, but if you concentrate on building quality SEO, with time you domain authority will get to where you need it... Have patience and continue producing quality content everyday.
Conclusion
Domain authority of a blog is one of the factor of determining a quality blog and getting more ranked in search engines, it does not depends on backlinks alone as we have taken time to mention other factors you must consider why hunting for a good rank.
Remember quality contents matters, getting a good do-follow backlinks from quality websites is better than getting from spammy sites, make sure to optimize your blog, follow techniques we recommended above. Finally learn to be patience.
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