How to Reduce the spam score of the website?

[CraigyT]

Some websites are designed and marketed in such a way as to only please the search engines for a short time. They end up with spammy link profiles that have little no worth. Google does not want to spend time and resources on sites with bad link profiles. Have you ever come across a great domain name that nobody wants? There is a reason that a good-sounding domain is still available; this is because previous owners were very likely to be spammers while this isn't always the case most of the time it really usually is the case. These domains are called Churn-and-Burn domains they are undesirable, to say the least. If you are or have bought a domain name like this it's always best to get a backlink audit done on the domain and then disavow any toxic links.

[xkurts]

Thanks for the tip

[anilprayag]

even my same concern also. I purchased a domain 3 yr ago and just live on the host without any content. it's showing a 56 spam score.

[Domain-Matty]

@dv123569 Well the first thing to do would be to stop spamming just like you have here!

That would be a very good start

[seopack.org_gr]

Don't worry about the spam score. It's just a third-party metric google does not consider it. If you want to reduce your spam score, then google has its own disavow tool to identify links from any 3rd party tools and disavow it. Recently someone created links on my site [https://unit52.pk/], and I use the Google disavow tool

[jocameron]

@nutanarora

Hi there,
Please start by investigating what is triggering these Spam Score flags on your, or your client's site. To start making improvements please review the factors that make up spam score, and then I would recommend that you prioritise what improvements you can make on your own site and its features, setup, and content with minimal disruption.

Best of luck!
Jo

[jocameron]

@harshvaghani123
Hi there!
First off, we do not recommend disavowing backlinks unless you have a Google penalty. Disavowing is unlikely to improve your Spam Score and, as you've experienced, can affect your site's authority and have wider implications.

Before disavowing please review Google documentation, if you see adverse affects you may want to consider removing the disavow.
If you're working on improving Spam Score on your client's site then it is worth explaining that Spam Score reflects features on your site that may correlate with spammy sites. So you will need to investigate what is triggering these Spam Score flags on your client's site and figure out whether there is any room for improvement. The end goal isn't to reduce spam score to 0, but to identify areas for improvement It may be worth exploring your client's competitor's Spam Score to set expectations.
I hope this helps give you some ideas on how to progress! Do let me know how you get on

[Domain-Matty]

@alick300

Ill give this to you straight up.

It's as simple as this. Spam score is not something Google looks at. For many years now Google's AI is designed to totally ignore bad links. So instead of penalising a site for spammy links they just ignore them.

Why?

Okay check this out.

Google has become a little bit more fair. They have no way of telling if the website owner built the spammy links or if it was some kind of negative SEO attack. So they decided the best thing to do was to just ignore bad links and not take them into consideration.

If you are still concerned about a certain kind of link you can use the Google disavow links tool.

One thing to note when using this tool. Beware. Make sure you know exactly what you are doing with it. You could actually decrease your search engine position if used incorrectly.

Second thing to note. Only use the file upload with this tool once ever 40 days as it make take up to 40 days for Google to crawl your file upon each request. So if you use it on day one and then use it again on day 15 it will reset the time it takes for the disavow file to be crawled again.

There is nothing to worry about in regards to having a high spam score in terms of SERP. It's just a link quality indication.

Hope that clears things up everything for everyone

[JohnGeek]

Hi there!
Please note that Spam Score updates quarterly, so any changes you've made to the features on your site that correspond to Spam Score flags won't update immediately.

I hope this helps!
John smith

[BossTV]

my website is https://foxtvnow.com/ has 11% spam score and I couldn't solve this problem. Can anyone help me?

[seopack.org12lz]

My website is [www.easybom.com], and my spam score is very high. The spam external links inside are not published by me, how to reduce the spam score

[harshvaghani123]

Hi @jocameron My site's spam score has increased from 1% to 34% in 2 just 2 months of period. My site has a lot of spam backlinks so I had disavowed every spammy backlink.
Now as I can see after disavowing domains my ranking is down.
I've already checked the investigation spam score from MOZ but I've not found any other error related only spam score.
Regards;

[aneesc]

Good day, I have a site https://smartplumbing.co.za/ that is ranking high on the spam score (83%) and would like to decrease it. It is an old domain that I purchased so the previous owners done some bad back links on this domain.

[nutanarora]

I am also working on an e-commerce website whose spam score is 8. The domain is Carbike360.com. I want to reduce this, but I have not got any solution. I have also checked quality of my backlinks but those links are fine..
Will anybody help me to decrease the spam score?

[Shanlax12]

@jocameron Sounds good...

[jocameron]

Hi there! @alisajoycee
Looking in Link Explorer I can see that your Spam Score is 5%, anything under 30% is considered low, and the end goal isn't to get to 0, but rather to identify areas of your site that can be improved
Please take a look at our guide on investigating spam score.
It’s important to remember that Spam Score is NOT a measurement of the spamminess of links pointing to your site. It is NOT dependent on your backlink profile but instead represents the percentage of sites with similar features to the site you’re researching which we've found to be penalized or banned by Google.

I hope this helps!

[piyush04]

@sivakonireddy_y
Hii,

I'm also working on one website which is related to health news. Since 2015 its spam score is 1% which is considered to be a low spam score.

Generally, when you start with a fresh and new website. It will show the 1% spam score. However, if your new website shows a spam score of more than 10% then look at the 27 factors or signals to determine spam score by moz.

[jocameron]

@sivakonireddy_y
Hi there!
I appreciate that this can be a challenging conversation to have with your client.
Anything below 30% is considered a low Spam Score. If you're working on improving Spam Score on your client's site then it is worth explaining that Spam Score reflects features on your site that may correlate with spammy sites. So you will need to investigate what is triggering these Spam Score flags on your client's site and figure out whether there is any room for improvement. The end goal isn't to reduce spam score to 0, but to identify areas for improvement It may be worth exploring your client's competitor's Spam Score to set expectations.
I hope this helps give you some ideas on how to progress! Do let me know how you get on

[jocameron]

@appslure

Hi there!
Please note that Spam Score updates quarterly, so any changes you've made to the features on your site that correspond to Spam Score flags won't update immediately.

Please take a look at your guide on how to investigate Spam Score

I hope this helps!
Jo

[jocameron]

@ankitakale
Hi there!
It may help to note that anything under 30% is considered a low Spam Score. If you're looking to reduce your own site's spam score then you will need to look at the features on your site that correspond to the relevant Spam Score flag. Please take a look at your guide on how to investigate and reduce Spam Score

I hope this helps!

[Appslure]

I have newly created a site and made it live recently but my site showed 22% spam score my site is https://seoslogs.com/

If anybody has a solution please share it with me so I can reduce it.

There are many solutions written but they are not working in my case so please provide me with the best solution. For the last 2months, I am working on backlinks also but no change in the Spam Score.

[SivaKoniReddy_Y]

I am working as a Jr. SEO Analyst. One of my client website UpSmiles have spam score 1.

My client is asking make it as 0.
I tried all types of methods but they are not working in my case so please provide me the best solution.
If anybody has a solution please share it with me so I can reduce it.

[ankitakale]

I have newly created a site and made it live recently but my site showed 22% spam score my site is https://www.ecoguardtechnologies.com/

If anybody has a solution please share it with me so I can reduce it.

There are many solutions written but they are not working in my case so please provide me with the best solution. For the last 2months, I am working on backlinks also but no change in the Spam Score.

[alisajoycee]

@jocameron can you analysis what did from from me https://www.gtzed.com/ its SS hit.

[Boltrev]

@jocameron
Thank you sir.

This is very informative

[KathleenRowan]

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.

[jocameron]

@designbump Hi there!
A score of 1%-30% is considered a Low Spam Score.

If you look at the 27 factors or signals we use to determine Spam Score (https://moz.com/help/link-explorer/link-building/spam-score#spam-score-signals)
There are two that may be impacted by the quantity of outbound links:
20. Number of External Outlinks Spam sites are more likely to have abnormally high or low external outlinks.

21. Number of Domains Linked-To Spam sites are more likely to have abnormally high or low unique domains to which they link.

However these are just two of 27 factors that are considered as part of Spam Score.

Spam Score represents the percentage of sites with similar features to the site you’re researching which we've found to be penalized or banned by Google. Spam Score is based on our machine learning model which identified 27 common features among the millions of banned or penalized sites in the data we fed it.

It's best used in the context of reviewing the overall quality of your site so that it best serves your users.
If you do make changes please note that Spam Score is updated quarterly, however we don't currently have an exact date of when the next update is due.
I hope this helps!
Jo

[jocameron]

@saeedroshan Spam Score represents the percentage of sites with similar features to the site you’re researching which we've found to be penalized or banned by Google. Spam Score is based on our machine learning model which identified 27 common features among the millions of banned or penalized sites in the data we fed it.

A score of 1%-30% is considered a Low Spam Score.

A score of 31%-60% is considered a Medium Spam Score.

A score of 61%-100% is considered a High Spam Score.

A high Spam Score for your site, or a site you're looking at, doesn't mean this site is necessarily spammy, or doesn't have great backlinks. It's a sign that you should do some more investigation into the quality and relevance the features on the site you're investigating.

There is a great video on Spam Score on our Help Hub here https://moz.com/help/link-explorer/link-building/spam-score

[saeedroshan]

@jocameron I am facing the same issue here. although I have added hundreds of quality backlinks for trusted websites, however my spam score does not seem to get any better. my website is https://nursino.com . any advice?

[designbump]

@offilery I have the same issue with designbump.com. I've gone through every post on my site and removed any links to non-reputable websites. However, it still remains at 10%. I'm not even sure how often they rescan the website and update their records because nothing has really changed in over a year, despite my efforts.

[Vikas23]

I have newly created a site and make it live recently but my site showed 38% spam score my site is http://reservations-desk.com/

If anybody has a solution please share it with me so I can reduce it.

There are many solutions written but they are not working in my case so please provide me the best solution.

[miasmith120]

Hi,
Before 5 days, My website https://edgenericstore.com/ spam score increased. Someone making spammy backlinks for my website and my spam score became 2% to 15%. I am so much confused about it. How can I decrease my spam score? I add a spammy backlink in the search console to remove from google.

But after 1 week my spam score has not changed.

Please I need a Suggestion. What can I do??

[bablieend]

Hi

My website https://www.mycplus.com is live since 2004 and all of sudden it's spam score reached to 37%. Any idea how I can reduce it? It was showing 1% till Jan this year but since then it stared to increase day by day.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

[cabineeflections]

Hi all,
My website https://rchappy.com has 78% spam score. Is it possible to reduce this heavy spam score and rank my website?

[kamran782]

spam socre website techna.news is 37% . we reduce follow links and get better spam score.

[seotoolshero100]

Hello sir

My site techsaa.com has spam score 20. I disavowed 89 spam domains through Google disavow tool a month ago but still moz is showing spam score.

Can you please guide me how long Google or Moz takes to disavow that links, or Is there any tool inside Moz that we can submit a list of spam domains or tell moz that my site have no relation with that spammy sites. because we all don't know who is linking our domains.

Hope for the best answer

Thank You

Abdul Majid Qureshi

[abhijitchutia22]

Our virtual assistant website https://virtualouspro.tech/ spam score went up by 28%. I am little concerned if it continues to grow what action can we take? I know quality backlinks are important and we are doing what we can but it's getting serious now.

[vidi2354]

Hi, My website  https://bumble-datingsite.com/  has DA2 and 2 Backlinks but still, my website didn't rank on google. I'm not getting any results from this website.

[vidi2354]

Hi, My website https://hingelogin.com/  has DA6 and 32 Backlinks but still, my website didn't rank on google. I'm not getting any results from this website.

[cihiloj777]

Hey,

We are doing good in terms of spam score, but suddenly it was increased form 0 to 6.

Is any solution for us?  website: https://jacketarena.com

[vidi837]

Hello everyone,

This is my website- HingeDatingSite.com . I'm not doing any SEO for this website. I just submitted this website to few directories but those directories are below 1% spam score websites, still, I got 6 spam score. Can anyone please help me with this? Is there any problem with the hosting IP addresses? Thanks.

[dv123569]

How to remove bad backlinks for the latest gadgets, tech news, latest deals

[dv123569]

Hello there,

I want to know that my website https://www.cracka2zsoft.com/ got 14% Spam score. is there any way to reduce it

thanks

[HolegarioSEO]

Google Search and Give mixed (DoFollow & NoFollow) Backlinks from trusted sites it will be reduced. and give some time to bots to verify

[HolegarioSEO]

Disavow Bad Backlinks in Google Search and Give mixed (DoFollow & NoFollow) Backlinks from trusted sites it will be reduced.

[Susnskaksj728]

This is the same issue I am facing that my site has a spam score of 61% even I have submitted the spammy links to google console disavow but still in Moz the spam score showing the same this is my website barooq please help me out how to reduce the spam score.

[Makua1]

This is same issue i am facing that my site have spam score of 6% even I have submitted the spammy links to google console disavow but still in Moz the spam score showing same this is my website https://www.yourlyricsstore.com/ please help me out how to reduce the spam score.

[noumanfdsfsf]

My website https://www.buzzytricks.com/ has a spam score of 5%. I find the spammy links through Moz tools but I don't know how to remove them. Help !!!!!!

[smithjack007]

my website https://keygendl.com/ got 4% Spam score. is there any way to reduce it

[kurosaki4d]

I noticed that you've successfully reduced the spam score of your website. May i ask you how you have done it? Because i am facing a similar problem.

Thank you