I'm curious how people see Domain Authority vs Topical Authority in a world of EEAT. It seems to me that EEAT is a "redo" of Google Authorship, which started in 2011 and was discontinued in 2014. In Google Authorship, there was an "author" HTML tag and Google+ was the repository of author bios. In EEAT, it seems author bios are entities in the knowledge graph. So... in this world of EEAT, does Topical Authority rest with writers? Websites? Both? And if exerpience and expertise are now both aspects of content quality, does "authority" flow to websites through its writers? And if so, how do Topical Authority and Domain Authority relate to each other?
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I would've thought in the EEAT world we're working in, topical authority is the evolution of domain authority. Harder to scale and therefore intrinsically more valuable than DA, when you can get genuine experts or inject expertise into your content.