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Does Ahrefs have a spam score, or something similar?
Does Ahrefs have a spam score, or something similar?

Find out why Ahrefs does not have a spam score, and what you can do instead to filter out spammy backlinks

Si Quan Ong avatar
Written by Si Quan Ong
Updated over a week ago

Is there a way for you to quickly filter out "spam" or "bad" links in your Ahrefs Backlinks report, for e.g with a pre-defined "spam score"? 

All of Ahrefs backlink-related reports support the Best links filter.


Configure it to filter out lower quality backlinks at once, such as:

  • Domain Rating (DR) less than a certain number

  • Backlinks with little or no organic traffic

  • Outgoing external links that don't exceed a certain number

The "Exclude domains" field can exclude up to 10,000 URLs, which can work as a soft "disavow tool" once applied across domain- and backlink-related charts, like the one in Site Explorer > Overview.

Google states in their Link Spam guidelines many ways of getting links that they consider as link spam. But it is uncertain what are all the factors they take into consideration when deciding if a link is spam. Hence, we do not provide a specific "spam score" for backlinks. 

The most precise way is still to conduct a manual review. Here's how to do it

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