Spam Score increased Sudden

[seofarahat001]

Hey,

My website Spam score increased suddenly. We had 1% spam score, Now it's 50%, We don't have many spammy website links, spammy links already disavowed. Why the spam score increased.

After checking the 27 signals we found we blocked Google Fonts API, Is this the issue?

When is the date of the next update in the spam score?

Waiting for an Expert opinion.

Thanks in Advance

Neethu

[eli.myers]

Hey there!

Thanks for reaching out to us!

When did your spam score increase? Our spam score updates quarterly.

Spam Score in Links and Link Explorer represents the percentage of sites with similar features we've found to be penalized or banned by Google. Our machine learning model identified 27 common features among the millions of banned or penalized sites in the data we fed it. Unfortunately we are not SEO consultants so we would not be able to pinpoint the exact reason for the increase.

You can read more about Spam Score on our Help Hub - including an awesome video that explains how to use the score as well as the factors we use to calculate the score.

Your spam score does not mean that your site is definitely spammy. The percentage represents a wide variety of potential signals ranging from content concerns to low authority metrics. Since this is based on correlation with penalization, rather than causation, the solution isn't necessarily to change these factors on your site, but it may be worthwhile to consider them. It is best to use this percentage figure to judge the quality of inbound links to your site, giving you a signal to help you determine which of those links needs some further investigation and, perhaps, even removal.

Feel free to write into help@moz.com with any further questions,

Best,

[miguelsantico007]

First of all, Google doesn't use Moz spam score:

• https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/2440327?hl=en

So, if your Moz spam score is high because of "spammy" backlinks it doesn't mean that Google considers your site as spammy. You can check the spam score for every linking domain in the Link Explorer. If there are too "spammy" domains take the necessary actions (disavow them in GSC as the last resort).

It can take a few weeks for Google to process the information that you upload. Your list will be incorporated into our index as we recrawl the web and reprocess the pages that we see.

Please check following thread for more details:

• https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/10239497?hl=en

When we did for our website it took less than 2 weeks.