Nathan Bradshaw: Faraz Ahmed Does these low spam score forum links ranked you for any high searched keyword in the past?
Faraz Ahmed: Nathan Bradshaw Forum links from human-moderated high authority forms give some advantage in the long-term. It provide some solid referral traffic and getting more visitors. But not much effective.
Faraz Ahmed: Nathan Bradshaw By the way, how do you see "Forum link-building"? and how you utilize it?
Roger Montti: My understanding is that the Moz spam score has to do with on-page content, not off page. That`s the last I heard when I had a conversation with one of the Moz people who helps to engineer those scores.
Faraz Ahmed: Roger Montti No, it matters on Off-page as well.
When I do forum link-building, I check Moz Spam Score. The forums with High Spam Score have a weak link-attaching policy and those forums are filled with full of spammy links.
Roger Montti: Faraz Ahmed I am only passing on what the person at Moz who is responsible for the Spam Score and DA, etc. told me.
They may be integrated into other metrics, I can`t recall but my statement is about the Spam Score and where it comes from, which is on page.
Faraz Ahmed: Roger Montti What I`m saying is that it also shows the toxicity of Inbound links.
Ammon Johns: Faraz Ahmed No. It shows an OPINION of spam or toxicity, according to one company, a company who are NOT Google, founded by someone Google regards as an annoying spreader of misinformation.
Google not only may have a completely different opinion in many cases, it is virtually certain. So there will be MANY instances where the tool shows a high spam score that Google doesn`t agree with, and even more times when it may show a low score on a site Google have penalized. How, exactly, do you think such wrong numbers will help an SEO?
Faraz Ahmed: Shubham Ghasi I asked him, he said I bought a new one.
Mateusz Bochniak: Faraz Ahmed it still might have been used by somebody before
Shubham Ghasi: Faraz Ahmed ohk, he bought. But It can be the domain that was used by someone and had expired by any reason which ur frend got. Which results in high spam score.The old owner of that domain may created low quality links.
Faraz Ahmed: My friend buys it 10 days ago. But I just checked it on Wayback Machine.
Faraz Ahmed: Mateusz Bochniak Shubham GhasiAny other ways to check domain history?
Ammon Johns: Faraz Ahmed That it had a site on it (otherwise it wouldn`t be on Wayback, which crawls pages) for only a brief time suggests it may have been a `churn and burn`, but you`d need to look closer at what was on wayback, and most especially see if anything it linked to can be found from the same period.
At this stage of the internet, there are very, very, very few domain names that not one person ever thought to register and use before. Most decent domain names are expired domains, whether or not sold as such.
Jeff Ferguson: Spam score is an invention of Moz, not Google. If you want to know why Moz scored something some way, go to Moz and get the report. Spam score is all based on the toxicity of inbound linking domain based on a system of triggers they developed (based on some notes from Google). In the end, it doesn’t matter... Google doesn’t use Spam score, or Domain ity.
Faraz Ahmed: Jeff Ferguson Yeah, we all know Moz Spam Score is a third-party tool and Google doesn`t own it. This tool is just helping SEOs. Isn`t it?
You said it shows the toxicity of Inbound links. So isn`t that a matter of concern? If the spam score is high, shouldn`t we take any action?
Jeff Ferguson: Faraz Ahmed meh. Google states that it ignores toxic links. We use the score more to determine what percentage of a link profile is worth a damn.
Bolaplay Us: Unnaturally Comments are one of the source of spam score. Even google dont use spamscore (its not google product), but you can use it to minimize risk on your backlinks profile.
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My friend bought a new domain but Moz Spam Score is 55. Why so high? What are the possible reasons?
