Anyone can get thousands of links from a bunch of low-quality sites. That’s why we also take into account the DR score of the linking site when calculating DR.
This means that backlinks from websites with high DR scores tend to increase your Domain Rating more than those with low DR scores.
That’s an interesting point to know. It means that as the DR of a linking website increases, so can yours.
For example, if you build a link from a DR 15 website today, and the owner of that website works hard to build authority and links over time, then that same link might be from a DR 40 website in a year. So even if you only ever built that one link, your DR score would likely increase over time.
The takeaway here is that it pays to build links from sites that show potential, even if their DR scores are quite low at the time.
How can you judge ‘potential?’
First, check their content. If they’re publishing high-quality stuff, they’re more likely to attract high-quality links naturally over time.
Second, check their link growth in Ahrefs’ Site Explorer. If there’s a slow and steady upward slope on the referring domains graph, chances are things will continue in that direction and their DR will grow over time.
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