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What is Domain Authority and How Should You Build It?

Two trillion and over: That’s the number of searches conducted by people on Google. These are people who search with intent. This includes the intent to buy products or services and also others gain information on specific areas related to those products or services.

Naturally, many of these searches are going to be related to the industry that you are present in – are you tapping into them?

Google Search Statistics

Personally, when I started my startup, making my website search-friendly wasn’t my first priority. Fast forward a couple of years and it is one of my top goals for the year. I realized one important but obvious truth the hard way: people don’t like being sold.

Of course, sales continue to be a very important part of my organization as it is for most. But making the sale to a customer who has come to you vs. you going to them, has very different dynamics.

In this context, I would like to explore one of the most critical parameters that can help you adjudge how you will perform in search: Domain Authority.

When you want your website to make it to the top page results something that you cannot afford to skip is internal linking. Internal linking has been important to Google from the day it came into existence. It is perhaps an important SEO factor after quality content.

What is Internal Linking?

As can be guessed from the name, internal linking creates links between pages on a domain. Internal linking is nothing but a type of hyperlink that not only forms a bridge between different pages on a website but also provides an ease of navigation to the visitors.

Internal links are a vital aspect of SEO. Without it, your website won’t secure the desired ranking.

Internal Link

Also, internal links indirectly help search engines like Google to understand which pages carry more weight and authority among the web pages.

Internal links are different from backlinks. The basic difference is that while internal link connects different pages of the same website, backlink connects two different websites.

Internal links also cannot make a direct impact on Google’s search engine like backlinks do. However, it doesn’t mean they are not important for ranking.

Internal links affect Google or other search engines indirectly. They also play a role in increasing the backlink authority. Internal linking is extremely helpful in ranking newly published posts or pages. When you publish a new post they do not possess any authority.

However, through internal linking, you can transfer the existing page authority of the website to the newly published posts.

In this way, you can allow a much faster indexing of the new post.