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  • Dahboss
    Dahboss last edited by Dec 11, 2020, 5:03 PM

    As at last week, my spam score was 1% but today I checked and it was 67% how come?

    I haven't built any backlinks for months now,  so I don't understand why it increased...some one please help....so it could reduce back to 1% or even 0% spam score....

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    • Dahboss
      Dahboss last edited by Dec 14, 2020, 11:27 AM Dec 14, 2020, 11:27 AM

      Please moz work on your errors, how will my site just get 67% spam when I have disavowed too?

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      • Joeurt4
        Joeurt4 last edited by Dec 13, 2020, 12:37 PM Dec 13, 2020, 12:37 PM

        Hello all,

        I think it's an error of Moz because my website sewgadgets.com was showing a 0% spam score a few days ago. but now suddenly it went to 7%. Is it something to worry about?

        Thanks

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        • Dahboss
          Dahboss last edited by Dec 12, 2020, 5:41 AM Dec 12, 2020, 5:41 AM

          So what you are saying is that my spam score can never be reduced?

          I feel bad whenever I see it...  It was just 1% last week and this week just from no where grow to 67% when I didn't build any

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          • dave.kudera
            dave.kudera Staff last edited by Dec 11, 2020, 8:02 PM Dec 11, 2020, 8:02 PM

            So, Moz's Spam Score is the percentage of sites with similar features we've found to be penalized or banned by Google (it's not based on the spam score of the sites linking to you). To improve this score I would recommend reading our guide which explains the 27 factors used to make up this score. You can then look at your site and investigate areas you would like to improve on your site: https://moz.com/help/link-explorer/link-building/spam-score

            Best of luck, and let me know if I can help with anything else!

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            • victor.celer
              victor.celer last edited by Dec 11, 2020, 8:17 PM Dec 11, 2020, 6:39 PM

              Disavowing the spammy domains is not supposed to reduce the spam score because Moz has no visibility of the GSC disavow list. If you disavow a spammy domain you can reduce its negative impact from the Google perspective, but your own spam score will remain unchanged.

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              • Dahboss
                Dahboss last edited by Dec 11, 2020, 5:26 PM Dec 11, 2020, 5:26 PM

                I have disavowed the two but it's not still reducing!  Mywow.ga is what's redirecting to my domain,  I don't know who did it and the site isn't functioning, but it's show to give me slot of spam score....

                What next now?

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                • victor.celer
                  victor.celer last edited by Dec 11, 2020, 5:23 PM Dec 11, 2020, 5:23 PM

                  First of all, Google doesn't use Moz spam score: https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/2440327?hl=en

                  So, if your Moz spam score is high because of "spammy" backlinks it doesn't mean that Google considers your site as spammy. You can check the spam score for every linking domain in the Link Explorer. If there are too "spammy" domains take the necessary actions (disavow them in GSC as the last resort).

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