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Summarylede
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Domain Rating is Ahrefs' 0 to 100 score for how strong a website's backlink profile is, computed like PageRank between whole sites and squashed onto a logarithmic scale.
Build a backlink profileexperience
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How Ahrefs computes itprose
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Ahrefs says it calculates DR "in a somewhat similar way to how PageRank is calculated", between websites rather than pages . It finds every domain with at least one followed link to the target, looks up how many other…
Why the scale is logarithmicprose
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Ahrefs states that "DR is measured on a logarithmic scale from 0 to 100, with the latter being the strongest" : the step from 70 to 71 costs far more link strength than the step from 20 to 21. In the explorable above,…
What it is notprose
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DR is one vendor's estimate of link strength, not a Google signal. In a 2016 hangout Google's John Mueller said Google does not have a "website authority score" ; in 2018 he allowed that Google has "some metrics that…
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