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Hi! I've read Matt's blog post Introducing SEOmoz's Updated Page Authority and Domain Authority and now we better understand how PA and DA works. You guys do a really good job!

We check the metrics of hundreds of pages and domains when acquiring new links and that's why is very important for us to make this fast.

Now that Y!SE died and we better understand how PA and DA works we conclude that we'll be checking the following factors before acquiring new links:

• PA: should be 25+
• DA: should be 25+
• IP: links should not be from the same C class.
• Domain Age: at least 1 year old
• Indexed Pages: at least more than 30.
• IP Neighborhood: domain should not have more than 2 spammy sites on its neighborhood.
• Context and Relevance: according to target keyword.
• PR: page rank should be 1+.
• Google Cache: no more than 2 weeks latency.

We thinks that the metrics above are all what we need BUT honestly still too much to check. Seems that nobody has the magic wand!

Are we missing something? Checking more than should I check?

Now that Y!SE has died the SEO community is looking alternatives.

The most stable tools our there are OSE with its DA parameter and Majestic tool.

Does DA and PA Seomoz parameters have all it takes to replace YSE? Still being a not answered question.

What the OSE can offer that Majestic and Y!SE don't have?

I'll really appreciate SEOmoz staff comments on this matter.

Thanks ahead!

Does DA and PA Seomoz parameters have all it takes to replace YSE?

I'll really appreciate your inputs!

Thanks Ryan for your input!

Cyprus, as you said, you can't add into the DA parameter the Link Relevance and Context, but what about other metrics? Do you think there's place to improve it? We want only 1parameter for everything.

Will be really useful for the SEO community to see a detail of what specific metrics DA takes into consideration. Maybe the DA parameter became the new standard

We're trying to simplify our link analysis job when acquiring a new external link. We're wondering to know if Domain Authority Seomoz parameter is all what we need to take a decision.

Does DA Seomoz parameter takes into consideration 'domain age', 'alexa ranking', 'dmoz links', indexed pages on google', and 'inbound links vs outbound links'?

We're trying to simplify our link analysis job when acquiring a new external link. We're wondering to know if Domain Authority Seomoz parameter is all what we need to take a decision.

Does DA Seomoz parameter takes into consideration 'domain age', 'alexa ranking', 'dmoz links', indexed pages on google', and 'inbound links vs outbound links'?