Is it possible to predict the future DA of a site?

[richdan]

Is there a method to predict the future DA of a site if I know the DA and PA of x sites that will be linking to them in the future? All inbound links will be pointing to the home page.

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

Donna nails it here. You can't predict DA in the future. The best you can do is make sure your onsite and offsite SEO is on point and that you are following best practices put forth by Google. There is a great resource from Moz on Domain Authority and what you can be doing to make sure that you are taking proper steps to ensure higher DA in the future.

Best practices + time = higher DA. That's the best prediction you get, but at least the future is bright!

Hope this helps in addition to Donna's answer - good luck!
Patrick

[DonnaDuncan]

There are a lot of factors that contribute to the calculation of domain authority, many of which are outside our control. A good example of that is the size and composition of the sample Moz uses to update its index each cycle. That varies from update to update.

If you want to be able to predict a numerical change from one update to the next, I'd say the answer is no.

If you want to predict trends over time, I would say that if you are following best practices, actively producing unique, high-value and high-quality content on a regular basis, making efforts to promote it, and that's resulting in high-quality incoming links, then you should expect see a gradual upward trend with bumps and valleys along the way.

[Mustansar]

I think, you definitely can predict the improvement for sure( obviously) but to be ideal for DA based on your upcoming backlinks. It may be bit hard to say what DA will you have for your site.

[LoganRay]

If you're able to predict your links that easily, they're probably not very good links and therefore won't contribute much to the DA of your site.