{"id":1474,"date":"2026-01-29T14:10:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flyingelephantdigital.com\/blogs\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2026-01-29T14:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:10:52","slug":"how-to-fix-a-high-website-spam-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flyingelephantdigital.com\/blogs\/how-to-fix-a-high-website-spam-score\/","title":{"rendered":"How we reduced spam score for a client website in just 2 days?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A site\u2019s spam score plays an important role in its domain authority and overall site reputation. A score above 5% indicates an underlying issue that should be addressed immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A client approached us with a site spam score of 14%. After auditing the site, we found:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u26a0\ufe0f A large number of toxic backlinks<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u26a0\ufe0f Artificial and low-quality content across multiple pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lets find out how you can reduce your spam score strategically with these steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 1: <\/strong>Go to \u201cBacklinks\u201d on your SEMRush<\/a> account<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Step 2: <\/strong>Enter your domain and Analyze<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Step 3: <\/strong>Navigate to \u201cBacklinks\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Step 4: <\/strong>Click on \u201cToxic Domains\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Step 5: <\/strong>Here, SEMRush populates a list of websites. Select Toxic Score between 60-100. And select all the respective and click Disavow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read our blog on How to find AI Overview queries through SEMRush\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 6: <\/strong>Click on \u201cDisavow\u201d at the top most of the SEMRush dashboard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Step 7: <\/strong>Click \u201cExport to TXT\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Step 8: <\/strong>Search on Google \u201cGoogle Search Console Disavow<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Step 9: <\/strong>Select your property<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 10: <\/strong>Click on \u201cUpload disavow list\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Step 11: <\/strong>Disavow list submitted successfully with Google.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The wrap:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Your site\u2019s spam score would come down within days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overuse of artificial or spammy content is one of the fastest ways to hurt SEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Focus on unique content and a clear process to win the SEO game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A site\u2019s spam score plays an important role in its domain authority and overall site reputation. A score above 5% indicates an underlying issue that should be addressed immediately. A client approached us with a site spam score of 14%. After auditing the site, we found: \u26a0\ufe0f A large number of toxic backlinks \u26a0\ufe0f Artificial…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,14,99],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-how-we-reduced-spam-score-for-a-client-website-in-just-2-days","tag-seo-blog","tag-spam-score"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyingelephantdigital.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyingelephantdigital.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyingelephantdigital.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyingelephantdigital.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyingelephantdigital.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyingelephantdigital.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyingelephantdigital.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyingelephantdigital.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyingelephantdigital.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyingelephantdigital.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyingelephantdigital.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}