My Site Spam Score is 5 /17 , whats Next ??
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Hi Sumit Vyas,
To understand the new spam score I suggest you read:
http://moz.com/blog/spam-score-mozs-new-metric-to-measure-penalization-risk
and
http://moz.com/blog/understanding-and-applying-mozs-spam-score-metric-whiteboard-friday
Moz checks a website on 17 points that they found are correlating to getting penalized by Google. A spam score of 5 tells you that 11,4% of website’s that do trigger 5 of any of those flags are penalized. The score doesn’t only take backlinks in account but does check on-page signals aswell. I would check the list in the blogpost any see which criteria you meet and consider start working on those. Note: correlation does not mean casualition. If you think it's legit, it porbably is.
Besides that, keep in mind that 88,6% of websites that do trigger 5 flags aren’t penalized!
Hope this helps.
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Hi there Sumat
I would read the following:
- Manual actions (WMT Help - just as a check and precaution)
- Guide for Link Removals & Risk Mitigation (Moz)
- Google's Disavow Tool (Moz - set up your disavow file properly)
While a 5/17 is by no means ideal, it's not necessarily grounds for a penalization, but you should take action. I would just take the steps to check your backlinks, your anchor text, your worst offending backlinks, and attempt to remove/disavow them as you can; you just have to be smart about the process. Don't just disavow a bunch of links - research them and put some effort in - no quick fixes! You should be fine, but get removed what you can, and start looking into your site for quick win on-site optimization opportunities.
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Hi, i need help. Spam score is currently 63%, I did this (you successfully uploaded a disavow links file (dosavow links.txt) containing 46 domains and 315 URLs.) How much should I wait to change?