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While search engines like Google do not explicitly use Ahrefs Domain Rating to determine search rankings, DR is highly correlated with keyword rankings and overall organic search visibility.
DR is measured on a logarithmic scale. This means growing your authority score from DR 10 to DR 20 is significantly easier than growing it from DR 70 to DR 80.
To increase your Domain Rating, focus on earning high-quality backlinks from unique, authoritative domains and cleaning up spam/broken outbound links.
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Get an SEO audit from us →Domain Rating (DR) is a proprietary metric developed by Ahrefs that shows the strength of a website's backlink profile on a logarithmic scale from 0 to 100. A higher DR indicates a stronger and more authoritative backlink profile.
DR is calculated based on the quantity and quality of external backlinks pointing to a website. Specifically, it considers: the number of unique domains linking to the target website, the DR of those linking domains, and the number of outgoing links from those linking domains.
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You can improve your DR by building high-quality backlinks from authoritative and relevant websites, creating link-worthy high-value content, fixing broken outgoing links, and maintaining a healthy internal linking structure.
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