Google's John Mueller posted a response on Reddit with his advice on how to improve your site's DA, domain authority. He said he was "torn" with his response since DA is not a Google metric, is not used my Google and has no impact on your rankings. But he offered his advice, nevertheless.
Here is why John was torn about offering this advice:
I'm kinda torn. On the one hand, you do not need DA for Google Search. Google doesn't use it *at all*. If you'd like to level your site up in search, you'd need to focus on something else, or at least use other metrics for it. This is mostly why DA as a metric is frowned upon by many SEOs. For context, I don't think I've ever looked up the DA for a site in the 14 years I've been doing this.On the other hand, if you need DA for something else (sell the site, sell advertising, sell links) I wonder if there's a way to turn that around into focusing on a more useful metric instead (even something as simple as pageviews could be more useful if you want to sell ads). Or, if it's really just DA that you want, then I'd look into Moz's docs & forum, since they make the metric.
But he offered his advice anyway, he said:
Assuming 31 is low (I have no idea of how the DA values are distributed), my recommendation would be to try to build a strong audience first, before you think about things like monetization. Find a topic that you know about or that you can learn about, find a topic that has low competition, where you can stand out easily...
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