Spam Flags on my minutedrone.com

[Minutedrone]

Hello,

I launched few months ago minutedrone.com   and i started to use moz to improve my SEO. I discovered that i have a hight spam score.  9/17   .   What should i do to be not penalized on Google ? Where should i start ?

The service is new so we only have DA : 10  PA : 19   and i'm not an expert in SEO

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi,

Open up search console (as long as you have it setup) and check to see if there are any warnings from Google.

It might be something very straight forward, but I would start here.

I would then read the MOZ guide on how they score these - you might pick up some ideas as to what can be causing this.

It's a bit awkward to say what else might be causing this without spending some time looking at it.

-Andy

[Hurf]

You can also look at Open Site Explorer, here: https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/spam-analysis/flags?subdomain=minutedrone.com

However, as Andy says, starting with Google should really be your first port of call (assuming you have access): https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home

[Minutedrone]

Thanks Andy,

I just checked my Search Console and there's no particular message.

9/17 spam score seems to suppose a big problem and hight risk as 71% of sites with this score as been banned. There's some recommandation by default thanks to moz tool but i don't know where to start.  Knowing the most important reasons may help me to tackel it :

Low MozTrust or MozRank Score
The site link profile is not trustworthy.

Large Site with Few Links
We found very few sites linking to this site, considering its size.

Ratio of Followed to Nofollowed Subdomains
The ratio of followed to nofollowed subdomains linking to this subdomain is outside the normal range of others in our index.

Ratio of Followed to Nofollowed Domains
The ratio of followed to nofollowed domains linking to this subdomain is outside the normal range of others in our index.

Small Proportion of Branded Links
Links to this subdomain have low amounts of branded anchor text.

Thin Content
A subset of pages within this subdomain have little content.

Low Number of Internal Links
Pages crawled on the subdomain have a small number of internal links.

Low Number of Pages Found
Crawl only gets a valid response to a small number of pages.

No Contact Info
None of the pages crawled contain an email address or links to a social profile.

[Minutedrone]

Thanks PlanetHurf, i was responding to the previous answer et the same time. The potentials reasons from OSE  help but i definitely don't know where to start. Some reasons will be fixed over time i think as the service is new but may be there is something that go wrong with on my site. For exemple there is a lot of links pointing the same page so may be the problem come from here ?

[brettmandoes]

Let's start with some easy things to fix shall we?

First, thin content. I crawled your site with Screaming Frog and found you have 482 internal pages on your site. That's a good size! But 80 of those pages have less than 300 words, and a some of them have as few as 18. My french is a little rusty, but most of those pages that have a low word count look like contact pages. So while not entirely necessary for the user experience, it can't hurt to add some text that's easily readable by users and bots in HTML. At the very least, provide a call to action that represents your brand so people are more likely to fill out your form. This should help reduce or remove your "thin content" warning.

The "No Contact Info" warning is easily fixed. Add social links to your footer and an email address where users can contact you on your contact page.

Ignore the "Low number of pages found" warning for the time being. You should check this against Google Search Console to see if Google is finding all the pages you've listed in your sitemap. If Google says they've found everything and indexed it, you're probably pretty safe. When I crawled it with Screaming Frog, I found that all the pages returned either 200 or 301 status codes, so this may just be something wonky with the Moz Crawler. You can also check how Googlebot sees your website with a tool such as httpstatus.io by setting the user agent to Googlebot.

A couple other notes:
1. You did a great job specifying the language for your english pages, but you can add hreflang tags to your French pages. 
2. You have both https and http pages being generated. Make sure you're only creating pages in https. This is complex and beyond anything I can easily describe in a response here, so you'll have to work on this with your web developer. Once you have everything in https, go ahead and enable HTTP/2 for your website. It will improve security and speed.
3. Finally, check you link profile with a tool like OSE. If you're being linked to from shady websites with suspicious anchor text you'll want to disavow those links. Anything from Russia check to make sure they're not scraping your site. I've been getting a lot of that junk with my clients.

That was a what I got from a quick browse. I think you will reduce your spam score sufficiently by following the steps listed above as well as improve your site's security, speed, and user experience. Good luck!

[Minutedrone]

Thank you so much Elliotte !! This will help a lot !

I will try screaming frog and work on those 80 pages .For the "no contact info" i don't know why  beecause there already our social link in the footer. For the HTTP/2, your right , i'm currently building the site in html/css with bootstrap only so i will wait to have a dev 

Thanks again !!

[brettmandoes]

No problem! One more thing that caught my eye. You need a native speaker to reword your English page. Some of the sentences don't translate very well, and apart from killing your conversion rates it's also a bad look for your SEO.

Best of luck, looks like you're offering a cool service!

[Minutedrone]

Your right , thanks for thewarning !! Will found a freelance asap as even if the service is only available in French speaking country, some of our customers don't speak french.