Unusually high Spam Score
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Hi!
My Spam Score is indicating 39% on MOZ and I can't identify that many signals from the 27-signal list that could be actually raised in order for the score to show such a high value like this. My website is Ronaldo7.net,
Is there anyone who could help me understanding what signals exactly I should pay more attention and eventually fix them so the spam score reduces drastically?
Are all these Spam Score signals weighed equally? (for example, I don't have a LinkedIn profile/link for my site, so should I assume that for not having it my spam score increases 3-4% (27/100)? I don't think that's the case, so I would really appreciate if anyone could point me in the right directions in order to help me reducing the spam score.
One final question, is this Spam Score updated on a daily/weekly or monthly basis?
Regards,
Guilherme
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@aydengaliba
I also have a website that has this problem, can I use the same method for my website? طراحی سایت -
@aydengaliba
Re: Unusually high Spam Scoremy spam score 78% but i havent make any link or backlink in moz
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It was great,Is it applicable to this website as well?موکت محمدی
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Thank you very much for your good website
I want the authoritative domain name on the site mrmoket how can I? -
Hi!,
Since i purchased my Domain healthwises.com, the spam score has been 42%
now making it 4months ts still the same score..
Note: even before I start posting on my site the Spam score was still 42%..
please, i need an answer.
Thanks
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hi
could you please help me I have a site with name of 20bekhar
my spam score is 18% and I think it is about 2 mouth and maybe longer time that I disavow the high spam score link of my site
but my spam score is 18 yet. please tell me your idea to solve this problem. I've added TXT format in webmaster disavow part with this type: domain:example.com
it is my email:20bekhar@gmail.com
please help me
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Thank you for the clarifications Eli!
Can you please address the following question too please:
«I don't see "inbound links" as a factor in the spam score list. At least I can't see any of those 27 common features referring to how the quality (or spam level) of the inbound links can also dictate what our spam score will be.
Can you please confirm if our site's inbound links are a factor in our own spam score? If so, which one of those 27 common features refers to it?»Thank you,
Guilherme
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Hey,
Sorry about this. Some are definitely weighted more than others (although I am not privy to know the exact weightings). The characteristics are used in a machine learning model to generate the final spam score.
This does not mean that your site is definitely spammy. The percentage of your spam score represents a wide variety of potential signals ranging from content concerns to low authority metrics. Since this is based on correlation with penalization rather than causation, the solution isn't necessarily to change these factors on your site. If you have not had any penalties you shouldn’t be concerned about a Low or Medium score. It is best to use this percentage figure to judge the quality of inbound links to your site, giving you a signal to help you determine which of those links needs some further investigation and, perhaps, even removal.
Sorry I can't be of any more help here. Any questions about specific links, feel free to reach out to help@moz.com
All the best,
Eli
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Can anyone please try to answer the above?
Thanks,
Guilherme
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Hello Eli!
I've got that exact answer multiple times already and it's not helping my case. I've gone through the 27 common features and looking at each one of them, I still can't understand how the spam score is at 39% unless one in particular weighs a lot more than others (I gave the linkedin profile link as an example on my first post).
Also, I don't see inbound links as a factor in the spam score. At least I can't see any of those 27 common features referring to how the quality (or spam level) of the inbound links can also dictate what our spam score will be.
Can you please confirm if our site's inbound links are a factor in our own spam score? If so, which one of those 27 common features refers to it?
Regards,
Guilherme
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Hi!
Yes, there was a huge increase in the amount of domains and inbound links pointing to my site since November 2017:
https://gyazo.com/9ad57a437dc9fa3ab59f91821f60c43cI'd say that 99% of the domains and inbound links that appeared since November 2017 are spammy/unwanted and I've already submitted a disavow file to Google a few days ago containing several thousands of domains in order to tackle this Google-wise. However, the disavow file I submitted to Google won't have any impact in terms of what we see on MOZ (the links/domains will still be there) and if they are indeed the main reason for my Spam Score to be at 39%, there's not much I can do about it.
I'd just like to have a confirmation from anyone from MOZ that these thousands of spammy links are the ones responsible for the spam score to have gone to a value such as 39%.
What's even more curious though, is that if we go through the "27 common features" that MOZ uses as signals for the Spam Score, we can't really see one explicitly referring to how the quality of inbound links are part of the spam score measure.
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Hey!
Thanks for reaching out to us!
Spam Score in Links and Link Explorer represents the percentage of sites with similar features we've found to be penalized or banned by Google.
Our machine learning model identified 27 common features among the millions of banned or penalized sites in the data we fed it. (They are not weighed equally)
You can read more about Spam Score on our Help Hub - including an awesome video that explains how to use the score as well as the factors we use to calculate the score.
If you have any other questions feel free to reach out to help@moz.com
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Hi Guilherme!
I checked out your website and it looks really good and I don't see anything bad about it. However, I used the backlink checker of Moz and saw what's going in with your websites backlinks
Apparently, you have more than 8,000 referring domains which looks really unusual and on top of that, you have websites linking to you with 30% spam score and above which could be a heavy factor on why you have such a high spam score.
I'm not from Moz so I can't say how fast they update the spam score, but my advice would be checking out their backlink checker, check out the bad links linking to your website and use the Google search console to disavow these links.
Hope it helps!
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