Spam Score of 28-Cause for Concern?
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In the last week domain authority for our site (www.nyc-officespace-leader.com) has increased from 21 to 31. We have been working on local SEO and making other improvements in the last month.
I have noticed that our spam score is now 28. I believe it was much lower in the past. Should we be concerned about incurring a Google penaltyY How likely is this with a spam score of 28? What actions should we take?
Also, we will be migrating the site to a new domain early this week. Can we use the domain migration as an opportunity to remove links from pammy domains? Will the removal of link from spammy domains increase or decrease our domain authority?
Thanks,
Alan
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Sorry for any confusion here. The Spam Score in the new Links v2 and Link Explorer reports is quite a bit different than the previous version of Spam Score.
A Spam Score of 28% means that 28% of sites with similar features to yours have been penalized by Google. This does not mean that your site is spammy and if you have not had any penalties I would not be concerned about that score. It is best used 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 for possible removal.
Happy to answer any other questions about the new tool or the score - IanW@moz.com
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What is the likelyhood of our domain having a Google penalty? 28 spam score is a real source for concern unless it is completely inaccurate. Score of 1 is no cause for concern. Wonder which one is accurate?
We are migrating our domain tomorrow and how we proceed will be greatly influenced by this. Thoughts?
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Interesting.
The 28 spam score is appearing under Links V2 (beta) in MOZ. Please see attached. Do you think this could be inaccurate?
Thanks,
Alan -
Spam score of 28 is extremely high, however I only show a 1 for your domain...
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