Spam score Reduction is possible or not?

[Saksham.kumar]

Hi everyone,

I have a question regarding spam score of websites. So, even if we disavow backlinks in search console which are harming a site and are responsible for the spam score, then how will MOZ know that those backlinks are disavowed? And if they do not know then spam score will ever be reduced of any website.

Is there any way to tell MOZ that those harmful links which responsible for the spam score are are no longer pointing to our site?

[VeroBrain]

Hi Saksham,

Moz considers 17 main factors for the spam score. Therefore it might take more efforts for down the spam score. Attached a link to the blog that explain each one in detail. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

✓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.

✓Site Link Diversity is Low
The diversity of link sources to this subdomain is low.

✓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.

✓Site Mark-up is Abnormally Small
There's a high ratio of visible text compared to HTML, JavaScript, etc.

✓Large Number of External Links
A subset of pages within this subdomain has a large number of external links.

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

✓Anchor Text Heavy Page
There's a high ratio of anchor text compared to content text.

✓External Links in Navigation
There's a large number of external links within sidebars and footers.

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

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

✓TLD Correlated with Spam Domains
This subdomain is on a top level domain (TLD) extension often found to be the source of spam links.

✓Domain Name Length
This domain name's character count is higher than average.

✓Domain Name Contains Numerals
Domain names including numbers are often found to be the source of spam links.

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[Saksham.kumar]

Yes, I know that.

My question is if I disavow links in Google search console then how MOZ will know that we've disavowed harmful links and how the MOZ spam score will be reduced?

[VeroBrain]

It seems it will take some time. Quote: "Disavow Files: Again, because Spam Score won't perfectly catch everything, you will likely need to do some additional work here (especially if the site you're working on has done some link buying on more generally trustworthy domains), but it can save you a heap of time evaluating and listing the worst and most obvious junk."

On regard your question, yes it is possible to improve the spam score, though it might take some time. Also, if you check and improve the other factors, the website might improve the spam score faster.

Mª Verónica

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[moz_support]

Hey there! Unfortunately there is not currently a way to mark links as disavowed in Moz tools. Generally Spam Score should be used a guideline to investigate potential penalization issues rather than a concrete checklist. If you know that you've worked on your harmful backlinks, you can usually ignore that warning!

Learn more about Spam score with the following articles:

Spam Score: Moz's New Metric to Measure Penalization Risk

Understanding and Applying Moz's Spam Score Metric - Whiteboard Friday