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    • TomHW
      TomHW last edited by

      I am new to MOZ pro. I have lots of spam backlinks from a company that blackhatted me about 5 years ago. Can MOZ list these for me? I don't know how.

      Thanks

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      • seanginnaw
        seanginnaw last edited by

        Hey there,

        Put your website URL through Moz Open Site Explorer and pull out all backlinks pointing to any page on your domain. Moz has it's own metric known as 'Spam Score' that will rate how likely each link is to be 'spam'. This should help you on your way:

        https://moz.com/blog/spam-score-mozs-new-metric-to-measure-penalization-risk

        I hope that helps!

        Sean

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        • tawnycase
          tawnycase last edited by

          Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here!

          Sean is totally right - the place to go would be Open Site Explorer, and you'd want to take a look at the Spam Analysis tab! That should help you focus your efforts for disavowing any links that need to be disavowed. 🙂

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          • Maslavista
            Maslavista last edited by

            From Spam Analysis you can export a disavow file and upload it in Google Webmaster Tools.

            Don’t forget read this guide first https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487

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