How reliable / current is Moz spam score at should I disavow?

[A_Q]

Hey Mozzers,

I'm just analysing a website's back link profile, and there are around 15 sites that link with a Moz spam score of 8 and above. I'm inclined to just go straight in and disavow these websites, even though some are industry relevant.

But before I do, what are your thoughts around the reliability of Moz's spam score, and disavowing a site if above a particular score (8 and above).

Thanks!

[Maayboli]

Moz spam score should be looked as guidance and not a last word. I had some legitimate sites directories shown as spam as directories tend to have lot more outgoing links then the content on the page. And I would have lost , lots of traffic and link juice I would be getting if I consider spam. And some of the sites are high domain authority and really good research resources.

I do not agree anything above score 14 is "definitely" spam. But it is "likely" spam

[seanginnaw]

Hey there,

I wouldn't just take the export and put it in - Moz's spam score metric isn't 100% accurate as it's looking at site metrics, rather than looking at individual sites manually.

Moz have said:

**"WARNING: **Please do not export this file and simply upload it to Google! You can really, really hurt your site's ranking and there may be no way to recover. Instead, carefully sort through the links therein and make sure you really do want to disavow what's in there. You can easily remove/edit the file to take out links you feel are not spam"

You can read the full article on this here.

They've also said only anything with a spam score of 14 or higher is definitely spa****m. Anything with a lower score could be valuable links.

In short, go through each domain you want to disavow with a fine tooth comb as there's always a chance that there could be some really valuable ones in there.

All the best,

Sean