How to increase Domain Authority — we do not sell the Moz badge

It usually means someone opened Moz, saw a number, and decided the number is the job. Domain Authority is Moz’s 0–100 model of how a site’s inbound graph looks inside Moz. It is not PageRank, not a Search Console export, and not a promise that a URL will move. People ask for “DA50 by Friday” the same way they ask for “DR50 by Friday.” Both are toolbar projects. Neither is Google.

Worldwide Backlinks does not sell Moz DA. There is no DA40 product and no DA retainer. If a brief says “get our DA up,” we will ask which money pages those links are for. A DA project without destinations is how you buy homepage dumps and leftover magazines. The metric comparison lives on Domain Rating vs Domain Authority. The “is this number good” essay is what is a good Domain Rating. This page is the buying-path version: what we will not sell, and what we will place instead.

Ahrefs Domain Rating is packaging. English guest posts sit on five DR bands: $125 (DR20+, GR4D2J), $175 (DR30+, 6RZX7J), $250 (DR40+, QJE1WN), $275 (DR50+, PNKO6R), and $450 (DR70+, EN1PXR). That card exists so invoices compare. It is not “Google thinks this host is a 40.” Organic traffic and outbound hygiene are the pass. DataForSEO runs before a host is approved. A high badge on a dead site does not ship.

Because the public card has to pick one axis, and buyers already brief in Ahrefs DR. Inventing a second Moz table would be a vanity menu. We will not reprint English guest posts as DA bands to win an RFP. If your procurement sheet is DA-based, send it. We will translate into hosts that pass traffic QC and sit in a comparable Ahrefs band — or we will say the inventory is thin.

Chasing one badge is how people buy expired-domain magazines. The leftover DA or DR on a dead domain is not a publication. SpamBrain does not care which SaaS painted the number. Open the site. Look at landing pages. Look at outbound. That is the how to vet a guest-post site checklist. Moz can look fine on a storefront. The checklist still fails.

We can add DA as an optional field on a report if your client lives in Moz. We will not pick the higher of DA and DR and hide the other. Rankings belong in Search Console, not in a DA column. A jump in DA after five guest posts is a model moving. It is not a ranking win we will invent. We do not guarantee positions, featured snippets, or assistant citations.

DR is a third-party score of how thick a site’s inbound graph looks inside Ahrefs. We use it so a buyer can pick DR20+ at $125 or DR40+ at $250 without a custom quote for every DR37. The badge is the price card. Traffic is the QC. If you need the age-and-band reading, use the good-DR sibling. This page stays on why a DA raise is the wrong brief.

A higher DR does not mean more readers, a tighter topic, or a cleaner outbound profile. A DR70 farm is still a farm. A DR30 city publication with traffic can still be the right host. That is why DataForSEO sits next to the badge. Spam and toxic outbound patterns fail before we pitch. You still approve the class of site. Named hosts land after go-live so the same twenty blogs are not in everyone’s graph the same week.

International guest posts start at $175 because native outreach is the work, not because Google invented a foreign DR. Niche edits sit about 20% under the matching guest-post row and are quote-only from $99. iGaming starts at $180 and stays quote-only. Wikipedia, digital PR, directories, adult, CBD, and crypto stay Enquire Now. None of those products become a Moz SKU because a slide said “authority.”

Referring domains on real hosts can move Ahrefs and Moz over time, because those tools recrawl the public graph. Homepage dumps, reciprocal schemes, and farm slots can also move a badge for a while. Moving the badge is not the same as helping a money page. If the only KPI is “DA went up,” you can hit it with junk. We will not be the vendor for that KPI.

What does not move a badge in a way you should care about: buying the same marketplace catalogue everyone else has, stacking DR20 leftovers to “average up,” or pointing fifty links at the homepage because you have not built categories. Homepage vs inner-page backlinks is the destination lecture. Link velocity is the pace lecture. A new domain that buys a DA sprint in week one is the deindex case, not a success story.

Answer engines do not use Moz DA as a ranking export either. They cite pages they can fetch and treat as sources. A DA project that produces thin affiliate doorways is a weak citation candidate. We still do not sell a ChatGPT ranking package. Mentions and entities can matter on those surfaces. That is not a reason to invent a DA-for-AI SKU.

Name the destination URLs. Say which class of host you will defend in a meeting. Brand-first anchors. An honest vertical. Exclusions you mean. Then pick an Ahrefs band on pricing, not a Moz target. DR40+ at $250 is the row most buyers already use. You can order that band or send the same brief on the quote form. Dual path stays open.

If you only have a Moz export, send it. We will not pretend we can map every DA to a DR row. We will tell you what we can place. If the sheet says “DA70 only” and the live inventory that passes traffic QC is thinner than that, we will say no rather than ship a leftover magazine wearing a pretty number.

Typical TAT is about two weeks, 20-day maximum on standard DR work. That clock is go-live, not “DA will have moved.” Third-party tools update when they crawl. We will not put a DA-lift date on the invoice. Replacement if the live link drops — same language and traffic class, not the next farm with a similar badge.

Buy editorial guest posts on named money pages. That is the volume desk. Unique copy, 100% manual outreach, DataForSEO before approval, live URL plus DR, traffic, and anchor on the report. Indexing submitted. Content included. No monthly minimum on the single-link cards. Create an account at clients.worldwidebacklinks.com when you already know the band.

Quote when the brief mixes languages, niche edits from $99, iGaming, or a gold desk. The monthly agency package ($1,500, SKU 2R60XR) is a scoped guest-post desk, not a DA quota and not a way to stack badges without looking at hosts. White-label uses the same public rates. The PDF brand does not turn a Moz target into a product.

Digital PR is quoted when you have a story a newsroom might run. It is not a DA accelerator and it has no public Worldwide Backlinks dollar figure. Wikipedia is Enquire Now and runs on notability, not Moz. Directories stay Enquire Now. If the brief is “need authority, surprise me,” you are shopping for a farm with extra steps. We will still refuse a host that looks like one. A strategist replies within 24 hours. We would rather say no than ship a leftover magazine wearing a pretty toolbar number.

They do not get a vanity DA menu. Casino and sportsbook use the iGaming table from $180, quote-only, because gambling-accepting publishers are a different pool. Adult, CBD, and crypto stay Enquire Now. Hiding those URLs inside a “general DA package” is how you burn the publisher and the profile. Safer is an honest vertical before we pitch.

YMYL — finance and law — means fewer hosts and a quote-first conversation. We will not invent a finance DA SKU. DR50+ and DR70+ exist when a host will take the URL (PNKO6R / EN1PXR). Many will not. A leftover DA70 coupon blog is still a farm. Open the archive.

International money pages need native-language hosts, not a bigger English pile aimed at “raising DA.” International guest posts start at $175. An English leftover on a foreign domain is not safer. It is cheaper inventory wearing a ccTLD. We will say no rather than hide a hard niche inside a $125 lifestyle post.

A short list of money pages, an honest vertical, and one English DR band you can defend. DR40+ at $250 (QJE1WN) is the usual row — not because Moz agrees, because it is the middle of the card. You approve the class of site before we pitch. DataForSEO runs before a domain is approved. See the site class before you pay.

Refuse mystery catalogues. Refuse same-day DA50. Refuse a secret dofollow toggle. Refuse ChatGPT ranking claims. You get a live URL plus DR, traffic, and anchor. If the link drops, we replace it. Founded 2022, Richmond VIC. 1 800 751 994. We reply within 24 hours. About 500 owned sites exist in the company; they are used only when they fit a brief. Third-party editorial is still the default.

Stay on guest posts or pricing if you are ready to buy the packaged version. Read the DR vs DA sibling if you are still mixing the names. Read the good-DR sibling if you are asking whether a number is “high enough.” This page stays on the refusal: we do not sell Moz Domain Authority. We place links to pages that can convert. Typical TAT about two weeks, 20-day maximum, replacement if the live link drops — operations, not a Moz-lift SLA. Open the host. If the badge is the only impressive thing on the page, you bought the wrong object.