I just checked what you said and yes I didn't understood it right.
"Essentially, the higher the DA score of any site or page, the more link juice and value Google will pass to the inbound links coming from that site or page.
According to Business2Community, 24% of Google’s ranking algorithm is based on the factors represented by this important value – the domain authority. This means that each of your web pages will return the same DA score."
Source: neilpatel.com/2015/05/19/no-link-building-strategy-is-complete-without-these-12-tactics/
I would say Neil Patel is a trusted source in SEO.
As far as I understand now the difference between PA and DA is, that PA is a strong indicator how good a single page will rank, whereby DA is a strong indicator how good a whole domain will rank, even if it has a low PA. That is also the reason sites like Youtube, Ebay or Facebook make it to the first page.
Of course PA and DA are not ranking factors, but they are indicators on how valuable a link from this domain/site can be.
To summarize it: It can be enough to build a strong DA (30+), but I should also focus on every single Page which I want to rank.
I wouldn't listen to Neil for much. He's a great marketer, but he feeds the IM'ers a lot of SEO white hat BS because that is what his audience wants to hear.
Anyone saying that 24% of Google's ranking algorithm is based on factors contained within DA is just totally full of crap. Nobody has that kind of precise knowledge of Google's algorithm to make a statement like that.
Essentially, the higher the DA score of any site or page, the more link juice and value Google will pass to the inbound links coming from that site or page.
This quote is just total nonsense. Linkjuice flows through pages, not domains. Just because you get a link from a brand new page on a site with a DA of 99 does not make it any stronger than a link on a page with a DA of 1. Both the pages are of little value or authority. Now if there is a direct link from the home page to the page your link is on, that's different. But no site like that is ever going to let you drop a link like that without paying hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And as far as DA and PA for judging links, even Rand himself has said you shouldn't use them.
You see advertised on all sorts of SEO forums especially the more aggressive, sketchy ones that a lot of folks are like, "Hey, for $99, we have this amazing package, and I'll show you all the people whose rankings it's increased, and they come from PageRank six," never mind that Page Rank is totally defunct. Or worse, they use Moz. They'll say like, "Domain authority 60-plus websites." You know what, Moz is not perfect. Domain authority is not a perfect representation of the value you're going to get from these things. Anyone who's selling you links on a forum, you should be super skeptical.
[URLnofo]https://moz.com/blog/8-old-school-seo-practices-not-effective-whiteboard-friday[/URLnofo]
My question is to you what's the way to know which links are strong, which are not? What's the sign of strong backlink in your point of view?
Generally, if it is easy to get and it is free, it is weak or worthless.
Editorial links are the strongest links. Sidebar, footer, and blog comment links on a page will be the weakest.
If it looks like a link that the author made a well-thought out decision to place the link or research what they are linking to, that will be a stronger link than if they just randomly linked to "the best damn thingy of 2016".
If the page the link is on has a good link profile itself, internal and external, that is a good link.
I also like links from pages that are ranking well from the same and related topics. If a page is ranking well for "how to build a fireplace", and it links to your page about "how to build a brick fireplace" or "how to paint the brick on your fireplace", that is going to be a stronger link.
Just a few things I look at.
