How did I overcome Spam Score of 28% for my website?

One of my sites had a spam score of 28% after an update by Moz. As an SEO expert, I knew it was not a good sign for my website, and It was most likely to get penalized by Google anytime.

According to Moz:

"Spam Score represents the percentage of sites with similar features we've found to be penalized or banned by Google."

After my site receiving a 28 % spam score, I determined to audit my back-links ( The links are pointing to my website).

I offended to see that there were a lot of junk links pointing to my site.

What did I do next?

I refined all the spammy sites that generated spammy links to my website before I started reaching out to the webmaster of each spammy site to remove my site link from theirs.

Some removed it as per request, and some didn't reply to my email at all. So, I decided to Disavow all those spammy links using the Google Disavow tool.

I filtered the remaining spammy sites in an Excel sheet again and submitted it to Google Disavow tool to get rid of it.

I had been keep monitoring until the Spam score decreased for nearly two months.

I woke up to the good news today that my site spam score has reduced to 5%. It made me happy.

What's the total process timing?

pankajjangir said:

What's the total process timing?

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It took two months for me since I submitted to GSC.

well..ok, i thought you ask something
disavow is the best answer

And what about your google ranking? Has it improved or not? After all, that???s the more important things to pay attention

PeterPerseo said:

And what about your google ranking? Has it improved or not? After all, that???s the more important things to pay attention

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Nope. It didn't. As John Mueller, a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google stated, Moz spam score doesn't influence your Google rankings whether you have a high/low spam score.

Backing the OP.

Same story, I disavow the spammy backlinks and I also got some nice backlinks. It took around 2 months to reduce the spam rate from %70 to %1.

I do have one website sitting with 56 spam score. My SEO staff made lots of links back in 2009 to 2012.

Thinking to clean it up after reading this thread.

Also check your site existing comments if have any external do-follow urls.

provocative said:

Backing the OP.

Same story, I disavow the spammy backlinks and I also got some nice backlinks. It took around 2 months to reduce the spam rate from %70 to %1.

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Will you please explain how you did it? What links you made?

Thanks

mithun7117 said:

Will you please explain how you did it? What links you made?

Thanks

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Mostly profile backlinks, also social signals like reddit, facebook etc.

bloggerzone02 said:

One of my sites had a spam score of 28% after an update by Moz. As an SEO expert

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As an SEO expert you should know that MOZ spam score is SHIT!

For example I have one site with 81% spam score by MOZ and is doing awesome in the last year..

Cheers

Google also says DA and SS is worthless but you???re an seo expert so why didn???t you know this?

It's good to monitor backlinks and disavow low-quality links to be safe.

bloggerzone02 said:

Nope. It didn't. As John Mueller, a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google stated, Moz spam score doesn't influence your Google rankings whether you have a high/low spam score.

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So.... if you think it???s useless, why did you spend 2 months doing nothing really important?

provocative said:

Backing the OP.

Same story, I disavow the spammy backlinks and I also got some nice backlinks. It took around 2 months to reduce the spam rate from %70 to %1.

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That's great to hear

specialseo said:

I do have one website sitting with 56 spam score. My SEO staff made lots of links back in 2009 to 2012.

Thinking to clean it up after reading this thread.

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Sure, you can

PeterPerseo said:

So.... if you think it???s useless, why did you spend 2 months doing nothing really important?

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Oops. I didn't mentioned it's useless. But, There is more chance that your site hit by penalty If your site has a lot of spammy links.

Mr Positive said:

Google also says DA and SS is worthless but you???re an seo expert so why didn???t you know this?

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I did it because I don't want my site getting penalized by Google. I don't like to see that my site has a lot of spammy links.

bloggerzone02 said:

It took two months for me since I submitted to GSC.

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What improved you are seeing after this? Traffic Spike or Ranking improvement?