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    • Heckmantis
      Heckmantis last edited by

      Two years ago I bought domain name aroundtheworldwithme.com as a travel blog. I built the site up slowly and currently have a DA of 28 with decent Google search results. However, according to Moz my spam score is 43%. I am convinced that something funny is going on to give me this spam score.

      I have gone though all 27 factors that play into the spam score in great detail. I only fail a few of the checks. These are the Double Click Tag, LinkedIn profile, phone number, email, and Facebook Pixel. Which as far as I know, literally zero travel blog websites provide this info. So I am on par with evert other travel blog website.

      Now I know Moz will say this "doesn't mean your website is spam, just that our algorithm found that websites with similar attributes are spam." But this is completely bogus. All similar websites to mine have spam scores of 1-2%. All other websites I see with spam scores over 40% are literally spam websites. Why am I literally the only legitimate travel blog site that has a spam score over 40%?

      My backlink profile is similar to all other travel blogs. I actually have less spammy links as most, as I haven't been around too long. So I don't think my backlinks are causing the high spam score.

      The only thing I can think of is that my domain name used to be owned by someone else. I have a lot of backlinks from a random blog website that were discovered in 2018, three years before I bought the domain. Is it possible that the domain used to be an actual spam site name and I am now being punished for that?

      If not, then I cannot think of anything that would cause my high spam score other than fundamental defects in the Moz spam score algorithm. Something is going on, and I'd love someone from Moz to actually be able to have a look at my website and tell me why I have such a high spam score.

      I know Google doesn't care about Moz's spam score (thankfully) but other websites don't want links from me due to my completely bogus spam score.

      Thanks everyone
      aroundtheworldwithme.com

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        gprchat12 @Heckmantis last edited by

        @Heckmantis
        My site domain age is 5 months and its mox D.A is 1 .................Is it normal or not? can it causes any issues? My site name is https://instaapkpro.com/........But the ranking artice is https://instaapkpro.com/insta-pro-apk-old-version/....
        Kindly reply asap !
        Thanks In advane
        Regards,
        Farrukh

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        • TurkiyeSEO
          TurkiyeSEO last edited by

          It shows 59 on my site too. This value is too high. Where can I get information about how it will fall?

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