Spam score

[Zir0]

Hi

I noticed long time ago that GPWA and APCW has very high spam score. Is there anything the staff can do about this?

Andreas K H

[gil.langelaan]

How do you check spam score? It's relevant gambling site with a lot of traffic and user created content, I think you should reconsider list of your SEO tools, or your approach to them.

[PROFRBcom]

Hi

I noticed long time ago that GPWA and APCW has very high spam score. Is there anything the staff can do about this?

Andreas K H

Well, they could spend a day or two cleaning out toxic links, that would help. There are literally hundreds of sites linked from GPWA in old posts, signatures, user profiles, etc that are defunct and broken at best, or converted to super spam porno and virus sites at worst.

There are tools that could filter this and someone could remove said links. That would help.

Having thousands and thousands of backlinks to sites with seizure inducing banners that look like they were put up in 1998 is also not good, those links should be shut down for this, and a variety of other reasons.

How do you check spam score? It's relevant gambling site with a lot of traffic and user created content, I think you should reconsider list of your SEO tools, or your approach to them.

I disagree on some level. I think it is perfectly acceptable to consider the idea that GPWA links are not necessarily the highest of quality these days due to dilution, spam that was and is allowed to proliferate, etc.

I manually remove my links from quite a lot of my posts here based on some of these concerns.

[MichaelCorfman]

The Spam Score I am familiar with is from MOZ, although it is certainly possible that other organizations produce spam scores as well. You can see an article about the MOZ spam score here:

MOZ Spam Score

That article lists the 27 signals MOZ uses in its calculation of the spam score for a site.

For the GPWA website, the MOZ spam score is 28% (lower percentages are better). Percentages of 30% or less indicate a low chance a site is spammy, percentages of 31% to 60% indicate a medium chance a site is spammy, and percentages of 61% or higher indicate a high chance a site is spammy. But, as noted in the article above, the scores are based on a correlation of various signals with the likelihood that Google considers other sites with those same signals to be spammy. But MOZ doesn't have access to, and doesn't consider factors such as whether inbound links have been disavowed.

It is true that we have not engaged in editing older posts made by users, and perhaps we should do that.

We have looked at portal sites we link to in our portal directory, and do mark sites inactive in our database when we have discovered that they are parked or no longer exist. And we do use screaming frog to discover certain types of link issues that we feel should be addressed.

We do have some projects in the works that will positively influence the signals MOZ uses in calculating the spam score. It will be interesting to see how our spam score is reduced as we complete those projects and announce them in the forums.

Michael

[Malikbhai]

It's a BS thing MOZ does along with other crap. It means nothing for rankings.

[tufty]

I didn't know that even the "Thanks" button has some influence in terms of SEO. Thanks.

Yes, get spamming.

[Blake]

The thing with spam score is that they take several thing in too account. Personally i dont trust them since they change the eay they measure thei spam score.

I have seen many sites that had 6/17 with their old system and now have spam score 3%. I wonder, shouldnt it be 30%?

Ahrefs, MOZ, and all the tools are good to uncover your competitors strategies. Nothing more.

Cheers.