The Globe - The world's most visited web pages

[henandstag]

My Moz spam score is 7%, I think this is due to loads of spam links from a website theglobe.net/the_worlds_most_visited_web_pages_262/ which appeared in the last month.

It is a paid inclusion site so not sure how my website got included with a link 654306.freedomltd.com. I have contacted them to be removed but not heard anything yet.

The link is showing 768 times from different versions of the same site. Is there anything else I should do?

[meghanpahinui]

Hi there!

Thanks so much for the great question! When it comes to digging into your Spam Score, we have a great resource in our Help Hub which breaks down all the factors which go into determining that score. I would definitely recommend checking it out as this may help offer some extra guidance on why your spam score is what it is. You can find that resource here: https://moz.com/help/guides/link-explorer/spam-score

The percentage you’re seeing is indicative of the percentage of sites with similar features to the site you’re researching in Link Explorer which have been penalized by Google. Since the Spam Score metric is based on correlation instead of causation, the solution may not necessarily be to to change factors on your site. There are many different factors which come into play when calculating and assessing Spam Score so this tool is really meant to be used as a way to identify what links you may want to investigate and factors on your site you may want to consider looking into.

As far as next steps to take after having reached out to the site you’re concerned about, I may not be the best person to answer. I’m so sorry about that! I do hope that the info above helps to answer your other questions, though! If you have additional questions about our tools, please feel free to send an email on over to help@moz.com!

[Casey_Bryan]

Hey Michael,

If you have no luck getting it manually removed and you think it's harming your website, you may need to consider using Google's disavow tool.

However saying that, Google has said fairly recently that you should really only use the tool if you get a manual action.

Google is pretty good at knowing what are spammy links and it's probably already disregarded them. As for your Moz spam score, I think Meghan has that covered for you

I hope that helps somewhat.

Cheers,
Casey

[Mark-Delton]

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[stoneman30]

I also have a ton of these links from TheGlobe and their sister sites. I'm also getting links coming from spammy photo gallery sites that link to our photos with a "." in the anchor text. I have similar concerns that they are hurting our backlink profile, so I started disavowing them in in Google Search Console. I can't say I have seen much of a change in rankings based on it, however.

[Manny32]

I also would like to follow on this thread as my site has been listed  to http://internetsearch.com/the_worlds_most_visited_web_pages_311.html and generated a lot of backlinks to the similar directory. I would like to remove it or should I just let it stay there?

[Minakami_mike]

I have had the same experience staring from last year but the number of links has steadily increased. It is all from sites related to "the globe"

http://theglobe.se/start/

It seems like a spamming tool. Also as my spam score increased some of my rankings dropped. Hard to correlate directly but I would like to know who is behind this.  I have used disavow tool (about 2 weeks ago)but not gained in rankings as yet...

[CalistonDigital]

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[DavidCapital]

Has anyone ever actually paid the guy and gotten their link removed? I'm on 1000s of variations of the guys page. Checked that delete link page linked above, and it goes straight to a paypal checkout, no place to put the domain you'd like to remove... I foresee a PayPal dispute in my future should I go that route...

However, if it could be removed from all the variations... that would feel great....

[KristieWahlquist]

We too are seeing thousands of links from these domains and are going to use disavow.

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[samdland]

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[hobbyland]

I have about 2.800 backlinks from this net of websites. They charge you to remove the backlinks from them. So I think this is their business. I think the best option is disavow in the Google search console.

[Ewan.Kennedy]

You can get a quick list of (currently 917) domains in the globe network at the url below which I found by googling the following:

inurl:the_worlds_most_visited_web_pages

http://www.theglobe.bet/the_worlds_most_visited_web_pages-txt.txt