Persistent High Spam Score
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As per Moz, the spam score of my website is 41%. As it was an old domain we bought, we disavowed the two linking domains that we thought might be the reason for the high spam score. But after having done so for more than a month, the spam score of 41% still persists. Can anyone suggest me what can we do to sort this out?
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ok thanks
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No-one will object to your spam score, so you are fine on that front.
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No, the site is not built to provide backlinks. I am talking about creating our own backlinks from good authority websites in our niche , which might object to our high spam score. Anyway, thanks.
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Hi - a little confused.
If the site is built to "provide backlinks" - it will fail at some stage regardless.
The site should be built for a legitimate purpose to satisfy a customer or consumer need. Then work on building out relevant contextual links it should do well.
Hope that helps.
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Our concern was that while making backlinks, the websites may shy away if they check our spam score and see us as some website which might affect their ranking adversaly at some point, just as we take care about the spam scores of the websites we link to
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Take no action, do not disavow.
If your on page one, seem to be ranking well - then that is what matters. Keep an eye on your spam score, but building natural contextual organic links is the way to go.
Go get em.
To be clear to disavow opens the possibility of your rankings tanking. Hence should be used very very carefully.
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We started indexing our site a month back. On our keyword it is on the first page in Google Search Results. It has not been penalized in our knowledge. There were only a few incoming links from a website which didn't exist anymore and sounded spammy from it's name itself so we disavowed it. We have started creating our own backlinks from websites in our own niche but all along that initial spam score shown by Moz persists and we have no idea where it is coming from and what else we can do about it.
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Spam scores for links are guides only - NOT answers. Each link should be examined individually.
First step - is does your site have any sort of google penalty? Is the site ranking well?
If the site is ranking well, no google penalty and is "humming". Then it is unlikely you will disavow. Disavow is a last resort type scenario.
So can you tell us how is the site overall performing?
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Hi,
The first thing would be to check the incoming links that domain has. To do this you can use the tool of Google Search Console or ahrefs (is a very good tool, but is payment). Once you can detect the toxic links you can make a disavow links through the google tool
<a><cite class="iUh30">https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main</cite></a>Regards
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