Spam Score Checker
Check the Moz Spam Score of any domain — with a plain-English explanation of the risk tier — before you take a link, buy a domain, or approve a guest post.
Free · no signup · real data — provided by Keywords Everywhere, embedded live below.
What the Spam Score Checker does
Spam Score estimates how closely a domain resembles the sites Google has penalized or deindexed — Moz built it by studying the common features of banned domains. This checker reads any domain’s score, explains the risk tier in plain English, and handles bulk runs of up to 10,000 domains with CSV or Excel export.
The bulk mode is the workhorse: paste your entire list of linking domains from the Backlink Checker and you have a toxicity audit in one pass. Same drill before accepting link exchanges or buying expired domains — a high spam score on a linking domain isn’t automatically fatal, but a cluster of them is a pattern Google notices.
How to use it
- Enter a domain — or paste up to 10,000 linking domains from a backlink export.
- Read the score with its risk-tier explanation: 1–30% low, 31–60% medium, 61%+ high.
- Investigate high scorers manually — some legitimate sites trip individual signals.
- Export the scored list and decide: monitor, remove, or disavow the genuinely toxic cluster.
Spam Score Checker FAQ
What does Spam Score actually measure?
The percentage of sites with similar features to this domain that Google penalized or banned. It’s built from 27 signals — thin content patterns, link-scheme footprints, suspicious TLDs and contact-info absence among them. It measures resemblance to spam, not proof of it.
Should I disavow every high-spam-score link?
No. Google ignores most low-quality links automatically, and over-disavowing can hurt. Disavow when you see a pattern — many high-score domains, unnatural anchors, or a known negative-SEO hit — not because one directory scored 65%.
My own site has a high spam score — how bad is it?
Check which signals trip it first: missing contact info, few linking domains, or a spammy inbound profile are the usual causes and mostly fixable. A high score doesn’t mean Google has penalized you; it means you share features with sites that were.