Website's Spam Score

Arshi110

Arshi110

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Once our website's spam score has increased, how can we effectively manage it and reduce it to a score of 5?
 
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as far as I know SS is directly impacted by the quality of backlinks. That is, the quality of backlinks as google sees it. Which means that if you acquire quality backlinks your SS score should go down...

This being said, I've seen sites with 83 SS outranking everyone, that's how much google cares about a random metric of a 3rd party company :)
 
Yeh that spam score isn't very reliable from what I've seen. I'd just focus on buying HQ links or earning natural ones.
 
Review the links and remove them if you want it to go down.

In most cases, it's not needed.
 
If google gives you a manual penalty then worry.

Worse case, a core update will go out focusing backlink spam and if the links give any juice you may see a slight drop, but if these are spam links they no doubt will give zero ranking issues.

Only people buying backlinks need to worry about manual or link spam updates like the December one for example.
 
tazarbm said:
as far as I know SS is directly impacted by the quality of backlinks. That is, the quality of backlinks as google sees it. Which means that if you acquire quality backlinks your SS score should go down...

This being said, I've seen sites with 83 SS outranking everyone, that's how much google cares about a random metric of a 3rd party company :)
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Yes, this is what I understand as well but what about if the domain is just new without any single backlink? How come SS has increased? There must be something wrong on my end.
 
Arshi110 said:
Yes, this is what I understand as well but what about if the domain is just new without any single backlink? How come SS has increased? There must be something wrong on my end.
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one of 2 things:

- either the domain is not as new as you think it is. Plop it into WBM and see if there are any screenshots of it. If there are, then most likely the domain has had an existence at some point, including some backlinks that MOZ have detected and awarded the SS that you're seeing now for. Or...

- the SS metric has gone haywire because MOZ have stopped updating it and every URL now gets a fake-ass SS on top of the SS being a bogus metric to begin with.

Either way, just stop worrying about it and SEO the crap out of your site and if your SEO is good you're going to rank even with 100 SS. Seriously, it's not as important of a metric as you think it is, just focus on the important stuff :)
 
Just vet the links manually, a lot of forum / public links can result in a high spam score, this doesn't mean your backlink profile is spammy. It really depends, but in general i have found the spam score to be a useless metric. if you have good links in place, as well as other public links then you have nothing to worry about. Also, remember that Google ignores the spam now so unless this is an older/aged domain you are trying to leverage, then you should look past this totally. If the spam score went up and you haven't seen any negative impact in your rankings then you really don't need to spend any time on this. I have a site that gets a ton of spammy links, hundreds, and nothing bad ever happens. It just keeps going up in rankings because I put out good content and have good links in place, for the rest Google just ignores the spam.
 
tazarbm said:
one of 2 things:

- either the domain is not as new as you think it is. Plop it into WBM and see if there are any screenshots of it. If there are, then most likely the domain has had an existence at some point, including some backlinks that MOZ have detected and awarded the SS that you're seeing now for. Or...

- the SS metric has gone haywire because MOZ have stopped updating it and every URL now gets a fake-ass SS on top of the SS being a bogus metric to begin with.

Either way, just stop worrying about it and SEO the crap out of your site and if your SEO is good you're going to rank even with 100 SS. Seriously, it's not as important of a metric as you think it is, just focus on the important stuff :)
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This is quite satisfying feedback for me. Thank you for your kind words.
 
We Bring Rank said:
Low-quality content and backlinks play a major part in increasing your Spam.
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It's the same with low-quality posts like this ;)

@Arshi110 try finding what backlinks are contributing to your spam score and then disallow those backlinks. It may take up to 2 weeks to see any results.
 
To reduce a website's spam score, regularly monitor and clean user-generated content like comments , forum posts and implement strong spam filters and CAPTCHAs, maintain high- quality backlinks, audit and remove harmful links, and stay current with Google's guidelines for a cleaner and lower spam score.
 
To manage and reduce a website's spam score effectively, follow these steps:

  1. Identify Spammy Links: Use tools like Moz or Ahrefs to find and disavow low-quality or toxic backlinks.
  2. Improve Content: Create high-quality, original content to enhance the site's reputation.
  3. Monitor Regularly: Continuously monitor your backlink profile and disavow any new spammy links.
  4. Build Quality Backlinks: Focus on acquiring quality, relevant backlinks from reputable sources.
  5. Patience: Reducing spam score takes time and consistent efforts.
 
First to identify the source for increasing the spam score.
Use proper SEO technique and content is high quality relevant and free from duplicate one.
 
Improve your content quality and remove your links that have high SS.

If the site has SS 80% the link juice will pass to your site it will automatically increase your site's SS so build quality links and quality content for your site.
 
tazarbm said:
This being said, I've seen sites with 83 SS outranking everyone
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Seen the journey thread of the dude who's killing it in medical niche with AI content on a dropped domain?
He showed me his site. It has 60% spam score. Guess what?
His traffic curve isn't stopping. It shot up to 300k per month in a matter of 1 month.
So you're right. Spam score isn't a definitive indicator of site's quality.
 
Remove the spammy links and try to build your site by got quality backlinks as 0 spam score
 
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