How to interpret a possible spam link?

[micvitale]

Hallo,

Spam analysis is suggesting that my website may have a spam problem (score is 5).

When I analyse the single spam links, I am puzzled.

1. the links to my site are actually links in disqus comments I wrote myself on the linking site, in order to aswer REAL question of real people giving them honest and useful answers (and linking my site :-), like the link pointed out in the attached image, also pasted herebelow:

http://www.androidiani.com/news/servizi-premium-indesiderati-lantitrust-contro-tim-vodafone-wind-e-3-213235

Most links have this same nature.

Has this behaviour (which I consider natural, in good faith) been regarded as spammy?

Should avoid linking my site in the comments I write on external sites?

2. the links from comunicatistampagratis.it  (towards the end of the list) are from a free press release website: you send them the press release, they publish it.

Should I avoid using this free press release site? Should I avoid using any free press release site at all (since they are regarded as spammy)?

3. is there a rule to learn (since apparently I have not been very good so far at using my good faith to separate good links from spammy links) whether a link can be spammy and therefore try and avoid it?

thank you for you help.

[MattRoney]

Hi Giorgio!

It's worth noting that Spam Score is correlative—it simply indicates that the page in question has features that we've seen on sites that've been penalized for spam. It's possible that the issue isn't coming from any one like, or type of link.

If you haven't, I recommend checking out this Whiteboard Friday and this blog post. Let us know if you still have questions then.