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How to reduce my website Spam Score?

by kurosaki4d
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Hello,

I have a blog that it's around 10 months old. I've been working on it's SEO for a few months now.

That been said, i noticed with MOZ tool that the spam score of my website is 22%, when i looked up the backlinks of my domain, i found out that it has many Chinese backlinks who's spam score is really high. (i already uploaded a disavow file)

I'm guessing the previous owner of my domain name did some black hat SEO. Now i have to clean up his mess. So I would like to know if there is a way to level the spam score of my website.

What can i do to fix this problem? Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thank you
#reduce #score #spam #website
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  • Profile picture of the author Xavibak
    To reduce your spam score, you first need to identify some toxic links and get rid of them. I suggest you install moz bar addon on your chrome tab. Access each link pointing to your site. At the top of your screen, moz will show you the spam score of each website. The websites increasing your spam score are the ones with high moz spam score.

    You can get rid of these links by either contacting the various webmasters to take down those spammy links.

    Or you build more non spammy links. I suggest you build backlinks on sites with spam score less than 4%. That way your moz spam score will drastically reduce as you build more healthy links.
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    • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
      Most of those spammy websites are unreachable, they seem abandoned and deserted.

      These websites are in the form of like blogpost in Chinese. There doesn't seem any mean to reach the owner.

      Would it be possible that blogpost could remove one of their sites if i file a complaint ?
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  • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
    Just ignore it. The MOZ SPam Score is not used by Google or any other search engine as a ranking metric.


    It's just a MOZ score telling you that links to you have low DA and PA .... ie meaningless.


    You could waste all your time getting rid of those links to lower that Spam Score ... or you could spend that time doing something that actually improves your site in the search rankings.
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  • Profile picture of the author ozstylo
    Just to inform you Google does not consider the things such as spam score as you mentioned above.

    Better to learn -
    • Google Webmaster Guidelines
    • Google SEO Starter Guide
    • Google's guidance on building high quality websites
    • Site not doing well in search
    • Link Schemes
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by kurosaki4d View Post

    Hello,

    I have a blog that it's around 10 months old. I've been working on it's SEO for a few months now.

    That been said, i noticed with MOZ tool that the spam score of my website is 22%, when i looked up the backlinks of my domain, i found out that it has many Chinese backlinks who's spam score is really high. (i already uploaded a disavow file)

    I'm guessing the previous owner of my domain name did some black hat SEO. Now i have to clean up his mess. So I would like to know if there is a way to level the spam score of my website.

    What can i do to fix this problem? Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

    Thank you

    It's just a useless number made up by Moz. Ignore it.
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    • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
      Google doesn't mention a lot of things, so it might be one of the ranking factors that it likes to keep to itself.
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  • Profile picture of the author tilstandsrapport
    While you wait for the disavow to kick in, you could spend some time building high quality backlinks.
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    • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
      Originally Posted by tilstandsrapport View Post

      While you wait for the disavow to kick in, you could spend some time building high quality backlinks.
      Care to explain how the disavow improves the SpamScore?
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    • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
      I already did the disavow. Approximately, how much time does it takes to kick in?

      I have uploaded and updated the disavow file several time. Does that affects the kick in time/delay?
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      • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
        Originally Posted by kurosaki4d View Post

        Google doesn't mention a lot of things, so it might be one of the ranking factors that it likes to keep to itself.
        It doesn't. Google is not going to use a third party metric in ranking sites!
        Originally Posted by kurosaki4d View Post

        I already did the disavow. Approximately, how much time does it takes to kick in?
        It won't kick in!!! Seriously, think about it .... how do you think MOZ actually gets access to the disavow file to change there Spam Score? Did you upload the file to Moz?
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        • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
          Lol, no. Rather in Google. So i'm assuming that the spam score will remain the same since Moz doesn't have access to Google's data.

          But what i meant by my question, is how much time until the disavow file starts to kick in with Google not MOZ ?
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          • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
            Originally Posted by kurosaki4d View Post

            But what i meant by my question, is how much time until the disavow file starts to kick in with Google not MOZ ?
            As Google pretty much just ignores crap links, its probably not going to make any difference to your Google ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author smithmary01
    I think you can follow some tips like Create a text version, Use normal text inside hyperlinks, instead of the URL, use a proper from address, subject line, use short Images and alt tag is compulsory, remove HTML errors.
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    • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
      Originally Posted by smithmary01 View Post

      I think you can follow some tips like Create a text version, Use normal text inside hyperlinks, instead of the URL, use a proper from address, subject line, use short Images and alt tag is compulsory, remove HTML errors.
      Care to explain what all that has to do with the SpamScore from MOZ?
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  • Profile picture of the author Internet Trillionaire
    Keep creating new quality content and generate new backlinks to your website. Focus on the search engine optimization only. That's what gets you your page ranking.
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    • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
      That's what i'm doing, only focusing on generating quality backlinks. Thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author Medon
    The best option you have at the moment is to get to a Webmaster to clean it up. Otherwise waiting for too long could lead to irreversible damage..
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    • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
      Originally Posted by Medon View Post

      The best option you have at the moment is to get to a Webmaster to clean it up. Otherwise waiting for too long could lead to irreversible damage..
      Care to explain what all that has to do with the SpamScore from MOZ?
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      • Profile picture of the author DABK
        Man, CB, you expect a lot! Thanks.



        Originally Posted by cbpayne View Post

        Care to explain how the disavow improves the SpamScore?
        Originally Posted by cbpayne View Post

        Care to explain what all that has to do with the SpamScore from MOZ?
        Originally Posted by cbpayne View Post

        Care to explain what all that has to do with the SpamScore from MOZ?
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    • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
      What do you mean by irreversible damage?

      The thing is when i bought the domain name, i believe it had this spam score for a very long time, and it's just lately that i have noticed it!
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  • Profile picture of the author Martin smith
    Avoid usage of spam sensitive words and phrases
    Use normal text inside hyperlinks, instead of the URL
    Use a proper from address
    Use a proper subject line
    Avoid HTML errors, unsupported techniques, obscure content, obfuscation
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  • Profile picture of the author hyperjerkseo
    1. Create good content
    2. build niche related links
    3. get a press release
    4. disavow bad links
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    • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
      Thank you for your response.

      How would you judge a website by being a bad link? What are your judging criterias if i may ask?
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    • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
      Originally Posted by Martin smith View Post

      Avoid usage of spam sensitive words and phrases
      Use normal text inside hyperlinks, instead of the URL
      Use a proper from address
      Use a proper subject line
      Avoid HTML errors, unsupported techniques, obscure content, obfuscation
      Originally Posted by hyperjerkseo View Post

      1. Create good content
      2. build niche related links
      3. get a press release
      4. disavow bad links
      NONE of those have anything to do with the Spam Score!!!!
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      • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
        I believe the first comment was about "emailing".
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  • Profile picture of the author Trignosoft Solution
    Here are some tips to lower your website spam score

    1. You should completely avoid making links for your website which are poor in quality. Some people make many links in one day, it is also very wrong to do this because spam rates also increase in this way.
    2. find low quality and spammy links that are linked to your site and should be disawoved by creating a list of such links.
    3. Use normal text inside hyperlinks, instead of the URL
    4. Avoid HTML errors, unsupported techniques, obscure content, obfuscation.
    5. Write unique and simple content for your website pages.
    6. Create High quality Backlinks

    When you remove such bad backlinks from your website, Moz algorithm will redefine the score by reducing the new spam score according to the quality of the link.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by Trignosoft Solution View Post

      Here are some tips to lower your website spam score

      1. You should completely avoid making links for your website which are poor in quality. Some people make many links in one day, it is also very wrong to do this because spam rates also increase in this way.
      2. find low quality and spammy links that are linked to your site and should be disawoved by creating a list of such links.
      3. Use normal text inside hyperlinks, instead of the URL
      4. Avoid HTML errors, unsupported techniques, obscure content, obfuscation.
      5. Write unique and simple content for your website pages.
      6. Create High quality Backlinks

      When you remove such bad backlinks from your website, Moz algorithm will redefine the score by reducing the new spam score according to the quality of the link.

      You clearly have zero idea what you are talking about.

      1. How many links you make in a day has no direct impact on spam score.
      2. Moz cannot see your disavow file.
      3. You can use whatever you want. It doesn't matter. You can use images. You can use videos. You could use bold text, italic text, 120 point text... it doesn't matter.
      4. None of that has to do with spam score.
      5. Unique content has nothing to do with spam or Moz's stupid spam score.
      6. Hey, you got one out of six correct. Nice job.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tauseef Shah
    To reduce your website spam score it's very easy just go to moz.com enter your domain and search for backlinks.

    backlinks having spam score more than 20% copy all those links and make a spreadsheet of that.

    After that go to the webmaster search console and click on disavow feature and you have to upload that file there and submit.

    When Google disavow your list your spam score will decrease.
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    • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
      Originally Posted by Tauseef Shah View Post

      When Google disavow your list your spam score will decrease.
      Where do all you clowns get this BS from? Care to explain how MOZ gets access to the Google disavow file?
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    • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
      Spam score of moz has nothing to do with Google search console. Please stop advising something that you haven't actually tried.

      What you are saying is misleading !
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  • Profile picture of the author seoexpertinindia
    You can disavow the toxic links from Google Disavow tool. Google will consider it and give a boost to rankings. Also it would be good idea to filter the toxic links and remove them manually by reaching the admins. That is the more better idea suggested by Google.
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    • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
      Originally Posted by seoexpertinindia View Post

      You can disavow the toxic links from Google Disavow tool. Google will consider it and give a boost to rankings. Also it would be good idea to filter the toxic links and remove them manually by reaching the admins. That is the more better idea suggested by Google.
      And what exactly has all that got to do with the Spam Score?

      Pretty dumb from someone who claimed to be a
      SEO Expert India , SEO Expert in Mumbai
      Its actually quite embarrassing for you.
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      • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
        I've already hired someone to contact the owner of the sites to remove my link, also did disavow the entire domain names of those sites.

        However, if i can't get a hold of the owners, i can maybe get through a domain broker to buy the domains of their sites, then their websites will go down, right? (because the sites seem to me to have been abandoned for a long time).

        What do you think?
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  • Profile picture of the author DABK
    Since the thread is still going, I will offer a good alternative: OP, Look at spam score Moz gives you and add whatever number makes you happy and declare that to be your spam score. You will be just as right as MOZ is and a lot happier.
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    • Profile picture of the author DABK
      Not true.


      Here's a link to the 27 elements they take into account: https://moz.com/help/link-explorer/l...ing/spam-score.


      You will notice that one of them has to do with the length of your domain name, another one with what's in your domain name (numbers and hyphens correlate to them with spam). You will notice that if you don't link to your linkedin account on your site, it counts against you, too. So does not having a favicon or a facebook pixel...


      C'mon, man!


      Why talk before you know?


      Originally Posted by sunilsharma View Post

      The biggest reason for any website's increase spam score is spammy links. If there are excessive low-quality backlinks or high spam score on a blog or on the the website, then the spam score is also increased on that blog.

      To say it means we should completely avoid making links for our website which are poor in DA/PA and quality. Some people make bulk backlinks in one day, it is very wrong to do this because Spam score increase in this way.

      If we want to reduce the spam score of our blog or website, then we will have to make links on high DA/PA website and create high quality backlinks and spammy links that are linked to your site and should be disawoved by creating a list of such links.

      When you remove such bad backlinks from your blog or website, Moz algorithm will redefine the blog score by reducing the new spam score according to the quality of the link again and again whenever the blog or website scans again. You must have completely removed the low-quality links from your domain.

      It's a free and best tool developed by Moz so you can analysis and check the spam score of your website.
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    audit your entire site, eliminate duplicate content errors, remove bad backlinks
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  • Profile picture of the author CaptainCatContent
    Whether or not a tool categorises your links as spam, how do you feel about them? if they lead to a chinese website that has the same topic as yours it's not necessarily spam. If it leads to a dubious website then obviously it is. It's not always Blackhat SEO but it's a concern, so I'd suggest to look through all of them and put those in a list that you consider spam. Then you can upload that list in the google disavow tool. It doesn't mean the links will be deleted but it means they will be ignored by google.
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  • Profile picture of the author cmsminds
    To reduce your spam score, you need to create more authoritative backlinks from high authority websites from your niche. it will reduce the effect of your spammy backlinks.
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    • Profile picture of the author DABK
      I guess, you guys, don't know what the MOZ spam score measures. I gave you a link in my post above, post #39. You could have learned but you'd rather stay misinformed, it seems. Tsk, tsk, tsk.


      Originally Posted by levandau View Post

      audit your entire site, eliminate duplicate content errors, remove bad backlinks
      I audit my website once a month.
      Originally Posted by cmsminds View Post

      To reduce your spam score, you need to create more authoritative backlinks from high authority websites from your niche. it will reduce the effect of your spammy backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author digitalmarketingboy
    Analyze the toxic links using SEMRush software and then disavow these links by accessing Google Webmaster tools.
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  • Profile picture of the author Thinkfast
    Originally Posted by clickmatixptyltd View Post

    Google has not mentioned any such criteria of spam score that affects your site's ranking. So this factor is of least importance.

    But need to check bad neighborhood links ...... and i think Google slap website for these types of links. So check once and disavow if any website create bad neighborhood links for your website.


    Originally Posted by kurosaki4d View Post

    Hello,

    I have a blog that it's around 10 months old. I've been working on it's SEO for a few months now.

    That been said, i noticed with MOZ tool that the spam score of my website is 22%, when i looked up the backlinks of my domain, i found out that it has many Chinese backlinks who's spam score is really high. (i already uploaded a disavow file)

    I'm guessing the previous owner of my domain name did some black hat SEO. Now i have to clean up his mess. So I would like to know if there is a way to level the spam score of my website.

    What can i do to fix this problem? Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

    Thank you
    Disavow is good way but need to care about minor mistake if disavow links..... Additionally need to create more weight full links to level your spam score .. and try to avoid spammy links from your website (If you are placing external links at your site).
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  • Profile picture of the author Course4FREE Website
    Remove content from Google with Webmaster's Tools.
    add NoFollow tags on your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author Igor Kurochkin
    Even if Google does not look at the MOZ for spam, it does not mean that you need to close your eyes to it. Be sure to find and remove all spam links.
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  • Profile picture of the author buysoundcloudlikes125
    Spamming increases due to high numbers of Toxic link. You have to remove all toxic links on your website. Whenever you create a backlink of a website, check its spam score in its Mozbar. Do not create backlinks on websites with more than 10% spam score.
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  • Profile picture of the author wickieagentur
    Do not create links on the over spammy websites. Do not promote websites on over spammy websites. If you have done that then delete all the backlinks which you have created on high spam websites. It will help you a lot.
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  • Profile picture of the author Subho D
    See you can do one thing. You can delete those Chinese backlinks and create some relevant and quality backlinks. You can use Disavow techniques to remove those backlinks if those are not created by you.

    First, create a list of links to Disavow. The check the following link format:

    • Specify one URL or domain to disavow per line.
    • To disavow a backlink, prefix it with "domain:", for example, domain:example.com
    • Save the file in .txt format.
    • You can include comments for yourself by starting a line with a # mark.

    After that, you have to upload the file using the disavow links tool page.

    • Select your website.
    • Click Disavow links.
    • Choose the file and upload it.

    It can take a few weeks.
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    • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
      Originally Posted by Subho D View Post

      See you can do one thing. You can delete those Chinese backlinks and create some relevant and quality backlinks. You can use Disavow techniques to remove those backlinks if those are not created by you.

      First, create a list of links to Disavow. The check the following link format:

      • Specify one URL or domain to disavow per line.
      • To disavow a backlink, prefix it with "domain:", for example, domain:example.com
      • Save the file in .txt format.
      • You can include comments for yourself by starting a line with a # mark.

      After that, you have to upload the file using the disavow links tool page.

      • Select your website.
      • Click Disavow links.
      • Choose the file and upload it.

      It can take a few weeks.
      Care to explain how MOZ gets access to the disallow file to factor it into the Spam Score?
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    • Profile picture of the author klixion
      I wouldn't stress about something that's pretty much out of your control. Put the effort into building your sites and increasing Alexa rank, traffic, backlinks, etc. My site has tons of backlinks due to members reference links and the spam score is 8%. I'm sure there are many links on spammy websites. Even if my spam score was 99%, would I put time into trying to remove these links? Hell no! My time is better spent trying to gain more members. Keep moving forward. Just my honest opinion.
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      • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
        Sounds reasonable mate, that's what i shall do. Thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author SalimSheikh
    Its very easy to increase website spam score by the following methods.

    Find the low page rank website and place your website link.

    Check the spam score of hacked website and get the spam link source.

    Place your website URL in the highest spam score website from the 2nd point website list.

    Submit back links in low quality websites will increase the possibility of affect by spam.

    However, anything do reverse to get negative results. Be an expert in both improvement & deterioration to survive the world.
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  • Profile picture of the author ailerons IT
    disavow Toxic backinks and then improve your website content and navigation
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    • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
      Originally Posted by ailerons IT View Post

      disavow Toxic backinks
      I have asked this several times in this thread of people who have said that and none of them have come back to explain this: how does MOZ have access to the disavow file to factor that into their Spam Score?
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      • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
        They don't. They just crawl the other websites using Google API and they get the data including backlinks, and they display that for you !
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  • Profile picture of the author thomascarney
    Here are some quick wins to lower your spam score
    Create a text version. ...
    Avoid usage of spam sensitive words and phrases. ...
    Use normal text inside hyperlinks, instead of the URL. ...
    Use a proper from address.
    Use a proper subject line.
    Avoid HTML errors, unsupported techniques, obscure content, obfuscation.
    Images.
    HTML.
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    • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
      You do know that i'm talking about SEO and not Emailing. Get the question right before answering it.

      Thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author sihex
    I don't understand a spam score its just a score, by a moz. Dont't trust a tool, trust data
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  • Profile picture of the author mdibrahim2007
    Stop submitting in automated way such as pingfarm.com
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    • Profile picture of the author klixion
      Originally Posted by mdibrahim2007 View Post

      Stop submitting in automated way such as pingfarm.com
      The thing is, what if it's your competition that is doing this to your site? There's no way you can control this so might as well put your efforts elsewhere. I would just ignore the spam score and work on improving traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Angelina Gil
    1. You must remove all the spam and unused back links associated to your website.
    2. Improve the content of your site and erase all the plagiarized data from it.
    3. Check your website backlinks on ahrefs tool and remove the connection from all spammy data or links with other websites.
    4. Erase the repeated content in your website.
    5. Improve the image and blog content in your site.

    Thank you.
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    • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
      Thank you for your reply !

      I understood everything you suggested, and i will certainly be putting it into action. One thing though, what did you mean by improving the image?
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      • Profile picture of the author Angelina Gil
        improve the feature image and make it more attractive. It should not be copied from same and repeated source.
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        • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
          Thank you for clarifying that, that's i'm doing currently !
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  • Profile picture of the author mandiradebnath
    Now you have to work hard. When we got some bad reviews for our site, generally we can't remove all, but we can add more and more good review to up the rank of the site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Justin black
    Here are some quick wins to lower your spam score
    Create a text version. ...
    Avoid usage of spam sensitive words and phrases. ...
    Use normal text inside hyperlinks, instead of the URL. ...
    Use a proper from address.
    Use a proper subject line.
    Avoid HTML errors, unsupported techniques, obscure content, obfuscation.
    Images.
    HTML.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by Justin black View Post

      Here are some quick wins to lower your spam score
      Create a text version. ...
      Avoid usage of spam sensitive words and phrases. ...
      Use normal text inside hyperlinks, instead of the URL. ...
      Use a proper from address.
      Use a proper subject line.
      Avoid HTML errors, unsupported techniques, obscure content, obfuscation.
      Images.
      HTML.
      That is all utter bullshit. None of that will impact a spam score at all.
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    • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
      Originally Posted by Justin black View Post

      Here are some quick wins to lower your spam score
      Create a text version. ...
      Avoid usage of spam sensitive words and phrases. ...
      Use normal text inside hyperlinks, instead of the URL. ...
      Use a proper from address.
      Use a proper subject line.
      Avoid HTML errors, unsupported techniques, obscure content, obfuscation.
      Images.
      HTML.
      Oh, FFS! You obviously have no clue what the Spam Score even is and how its calculated. You should not be posting about to[pic you clearly have no clue about.
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  • Profile picture of the author digiayush
    Spam score has been developed by SEO company Moz to measure quality of website backlinks. It tells spammy score of any website according to the points of spam flags, which lies between 0 and 17.
    If we want to reduce the spam score of our blog or website, then we will have to find low quality links that are linked to your site and should be disavowed by creating a list of these links. Create more external links.
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    • Profile picture of the author DABK
      No, no, no.

      You should do nothing. Moz, in the article they have on their site about how they figure out your spam score says you should do nothing if you have a high spam score.

      Read the article.

      Did you know that one of the reasons you get marked as spammy is a very short domain name? Something like wix.com is spammy, as per MOZ.

      Originally Posted by digiayush View Post

      Spam score has been developed by SEO company Moz to measure quality of website backlinks. It tells spammy score of any website according to the points of spam flags, which lies between 0 and 17.
      If we want to reduce the spam score of our blog or website, then we will have to find low quality links that are linked to your site and should be disavowed by creating a list of these links. Create more external links.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sarbjit Grewal
    To reduce the spam score of your website, first of all, just look at the backlinks and find out the spamming backlinks and use the Disavow tool to remove those spammy backlink.
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    • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
      Originally Posted by Sarbjit Grewal View Post

      To reduce the spam score of your website, first of all, just look at the backlinks and find out the spamming backlinks and use the Disavow tool to remove those spammy backlink.
      I have asked this repeatedly in this thread, but no one offering this advice has yet come back to answer, so could you please come back and answer this: How does MOZ get access to the disavow tool to reduce the Spam Score?
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      • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
        DUDE, i already replied to your question earlier, Read:

        They don't. They just crawl the other websites using Google API and they get the data including backlinks, and they display that for you !
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        • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
          Originally Posted by kurosaki4d View Post

          DUDE, i already replied to your question earlier, Read:

          They don't. They just crawl the other websites using Google API and they get the data including backlinks, and they display that for you !
          I know they don't!! I just facetiously calling out the clowns who think submitting a disavow file reduces the spam score. Not one of those clowns have returned to answer my question, which is pretty obvious that they can't,
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          • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
            It's ok man, different people, different opinions.
            I used to think a while ago that the disavow would actually impact the spam score, soon i found out that they had no direct relation whatsoever.

            But disavowing is a last resort option which certainly impacts the quality backlink that google rate your page for (which isn't disclosed anywhere).

            Overall, depending on the site, the disavow takes a maximum of 2 months to take effect. Hope this helps whoever reads this !
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      • Profile picture of the author Sarbjit Grewal
        Hey, i think here you would find the answer https://www.google.com/webmasters/to...vow-links-main
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  • Profile picture of the author samsabir
    Google does not consider spam scores to be a ranking factor determinant, but if you must get rid of the toxic score, you can use a tool like ahrefs and SEMrush to get the job done.
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    • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
      I know that SEMrush handles the toxic score by revealing the spam score and allowing you to message the sites with backlinks.

      However, i'm using Ahrefs, and i never seen anything related to spam score. Would you care to elaborate how i can use Ahrefs for this purpose?

      Thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author @Jennifer
    First you have to chjecjk what kind of spam, appeared on your site. are they created to email, content, comments, and else. than if iy's related to any technical term that you have to edit that rules and ways you follow, and if it's related to backlinks and content, comments links that you can fix by a tool disabove on google, which help you filter anwantee and spamy links.
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    • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
      Originally Posted by @Jennifer View Post

      First you have to chjecjk what kind of spam, appeared on your site. are they created to email, content, comments, and else. than if iy's related to any technical term that you have to edit that rules and ways you follow, and if it's related to backlinks and content, comments links that you can fix by a tool disabove on google, which help you filter anwantee and spamy links.
      Are you really that stupid? Did you even bother to read this thread before posting in it?
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      • Profile picture of the author kurosaki4d
        It looks like they are everywhere, they just spam whatever or try to score point at any topic they can find !
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  • Profile picture of the author hsvdm
    Don't use URL shorteners or full URL strings for your links.
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  • Profile picture of the author susan2015parker
    Well, Google doesn't care much about spam score. However, if you really want to reduce your spam score, try things like using normal text inside hyperlinks, or get a webmaster to clean it all up! That's definitely a simple and quick way to reduce your spam score.
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