SEO
Domain Authority
The short answer
Domain authority is a third-party score (not an official Google metric) that estimates how likely a website is to rank well, based mainly on the quantity and quality of its backlinks.
Full explanation
It's useful as a rough, comparative benchmark against competitors, but it's not something Google itself uses to rank pages — treat it as a directional signal, not a target to chase directly.
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