Spam Score Calculation
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Are the guidelines of Open Site Explorer's spam score published anywhere?
I'm trying to figure out how a page like
http://content.yudu.com/Library/A22uap/PARKINGMagazineMarch/resources/25.htm
has a Spam Score of 2/17 -- I expect it to be 17/17
It has no visible content, but if you view the source you see very spammy links.
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Hi there!
Jo here from the Moz support team.
Spam score is made up of 17 unique signals identified for that subdomain content.yudu.com, rather than that page.
I wouldn't really describe the Spam Score flags as an algorithm, but rather flags that are triggered with the gathering of data for our Mozscape index.
You can check out all the flags and the ones that were triggered for that subdomain here https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/spam-analysis/flags?subdomain=content.yudu.com
In addition to the Whiteboard Friday that Alick300 shared above I also recommend reviewing this article by Rand on Spam Score https://moz.com/blog/spam-score-mozs-new-metric-to-measure-penalization-risk
I hope this helps, if there is anything else I can help you with please do let me know
Cheers!
Jo -
I understand the concept. I just don't understand how a page that should have a 17/17 spam score is not identified by the algorithm.
I gave a very specific example. I hope that someone with knowledge of the inner-workings of the algorithm can answer.
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Hi,
Please check this video @ Understanding and Applying Moz's Spam Score Metric - Whiteboard Friday
I'm also sharing old thread on similar issue @ https://moz.com/community/q/spam-score
Hope this helps you.
Thanks
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