What is a good spam score?

Most healthy sites sit between 1 and 4. A brand new domain with almost no links often reads higher simply because it has few signals to work with, and that usually corrects itself as real links arrive.

The number is a probability, not a judgment. A score of 25 means about a quarter of sites with your profile were penalized in Moz's sample set. Three quarters were not. Plenty of legitimate sites live at 25 permanently and rank fine.

What matters more than the level is the direction. A score that sat at 3 for eight months and jumped to 19 tells you something changed in your link profile - probably a batch of low-quality links, sometimes from a competitor's negative SEO attempt, more often from a directory blast someone on your team bought.

Use it as a filter when vetting link sources. If a site offering you a placement scores above 30, walk away. That is the metric's best use.

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