Domain Authority on our site has been dropping steadily since early Feb

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Alan Bleiweiss: https://twitter.com/randfish/status/842266347199434752
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  Alan Bleiweiss: Failure to disavow backlinks can still, and does, expose a site to a manual action or manual penalty. This has not changed. Further, as advanced as Penguin has gotten, there is still a lot of imperfection. So if you want to work on sustainable success premises, I recommend to my clients to routinely monitor links, update disavow as needed, and use that to get a more accurate understanding of where the site actually is, without the aid of artificial, or otherwise toxic link signals.
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  Cindy Coughlin: Thanks, any suggestions what I should look at
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  Cindy Coughlin: Thank you so much! Your response is greatly needed and appreciated! Have a nice weekend.
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  Doc Sheldon: The fastest I`ve ever seen any substantial improvement from nothing more than a disavow file was in the case of a manual action getting lifted. And in that case, I can`t say with any confidence that the disavow had any direct effect on the improvement. In fact, I doubt it.