What is Domain Authority?
Domain Authority (DA) is a 0–100 score developed by Moz that estimates a domain's likelihood to rank in search results. Earned media on high-DA outlets passes more SEO authority than coverage on lower-DA ones. Note: DA is a third-party metric, not a Google signal. Crackle PR uses Domain Authority as a triage filter for outlet targeting, not a ranking algorithm — DA maps roughly to both SEO link value and LLM training weight for the publications that carry the most citation gravity.
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