What is the importance of DA for traffic when launching a website?
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I am working on a new content website. Before I decide of the name and buy the domain name, I wonder if it's still worth buying an expired domain name with high(ish) DA instead of starting from scratch.
Any opinion?
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DA has nothing to do with the ranking of any website directly. Google does not follow any kind of matrics called DA, PA, DR, UR, etc, etc.
All these metrics are introduced by SEO Tools like MOZ, AHREFS, etc. Google is more focused on E-E-A-T nowadays.So try to focus on EEAT more than DA, and PA things.
One more thing, if you are buying an expired domain then it is always necessary to check the previous history of the domain. Either it was used for any kind of PBN, Gambling websites, or Guest Posts websites. The history should be clean. You also need to check the backlink profile of the expired domain.
Check the Anchor Text very carefully when you are buying an expired domain.
(Hope this will helpful for you) -
You can buy expired to get backlinks to a blog site and then use blog to do backlinks to your main site, it's a lot of work but worth it.
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@sainiiaamit Thank you! I'll go for a new name I think!
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@solenneginx Hi, This Aamit Saini It is good point to purchase expired domain instead of new one. Expired domain already have some backlinks, on this point it is a good move, but if you purchased new one that will be better, because you can select it as per your niche which will suit your blog and in the last it will be as per your choice.
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