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Hey Errick,

I don't feel it is that reliable at all. Once of my sites has had a spam score on 9 since I started working on it.

Ive worked on it for 4 months to lower it and nothing happens even though I've addressed 90% of the issues and "indicators"

I hope you come right with yours though.

Yes I was at the Acquisition >> organic search search dashboard first. 85% of the keywords are (not provided) and the bounce rate on those (not provided) keywords is 26%..

At the moment im trying to bring my CTR up with experimenting with my meta-data. To do that I though I would need to go to Aquisiton > Search Engine Optimization > landing pages. (i dont have a keyword ranking lower than 20). My CTR is 2 - 11% but I really want to get those up.

But when I was doing this I saw that my impressions flatlined and thought that was weird and I wondered why that could have happened. Hence why I'm here. :)Thanks for your insights though, they have been valuable.

At the moment I'm assesing the Acqusition > Search Engine Optimization > landing pages

Hey Dmitrii,

What do you mean impressions are not the best way to determine how my organic search channel is going? Where else can I measure organic search?

I'm more just curious why it has flatlined? The site in question is a tester site where I have built many grey links to measure the effects.

Sorry I should have been more clear. The spike was from when I was uploading content to FB and got one like on the day of the spike and days before then.

I have seen a massive correlation towards Fbook likes and organic impressions and positions on the day in the past but what I really would like to know is;
If on a new site Google almost caps the impressions and measures your CTR and other metrics to assess the relativity of the site?

Hey,

I've been trying to grow my sites organic traffic but its like I've hit an organic cap on impressions.

The site is about 4 months old and this period that I hit its limit I did not do any social shares or upload any new content. But is this normal?

The site did get a Facebook like on the 26th of August.

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Wohoo, a response that really touches on everything.. I wish I could give you more thumbs up.

Thanks Matt. I did not mean to be so hard on Jordan or you but that never answered my question.

I don't have a manual penalty yet but I really dont want to be slapped with one, so I"ve been tip toeing and almost not trying to get noticed by Google. LOL. A 70% chance of getting a penalty can be really scary for someone who dropped a full-time job for a website.

Neil dropped a nice post about it yesterday http://www.quicksprout.com/2015/08/05/the-step-by-step-guide-to-fixing-any-google-penalty/. Ive read the links you sent me and will try concentrate on the broader picture.

Thanks Matt

Hey Jordan and even Matt,

Although I do appreciate the reply, I personally feel this does not add any value to my question. It just makes it appear that its answered when all you've done is fluff it up with an answer that any "general" SEO person would give.

You also answered a question I didn't even ask. Obiously I'm working on cultivating authoritative backlink profile and I only disavowed the ones with a high spam score and no relevance to my site. (but this has not worked, hence why I am here)

Let me ask the questions in more detail and hope they will get answered.

Does the spam score generally take long to drop? - I've been working for 4 months and seen no improvement, but funny enough even before these links were indexed my site had a 9 spam score and I had never touched it, it was parked at godaddy. Have you heard of this before.

Should i try and stop the permanent redirect and direct my .com to the .net domain? - Can I even do this.

Are there experts who can lower my score? I consider myself good at SEO, are there experts in the Moz community who consider this their speciality.

Should I look for non spammy niche directories in its niche and submit my site to them to increase link authority and nofollow links? My site is in the fitness niche, do relavent directories in this niche with low scores help or because they are probably follow links, detrimental to my site?

My response is maybe hostile but when I'm enquiring on an SEO specific website that im considering paying membership to. I may have well asked this on Quora, Warriorform or Yahoo answers.

Actual answers to my questions would have been apprecited, also, terrible grammar irks me.

Thanks

Does the spam score generally take long to drop? Should i try and stop the permanent redirect and direct my .com to the .net domain? Are there experts who can lower my score? Should I look for non spammy directories in its niche and submit my site to them to increase link authority and nofollow links ?

I sat on a .com domain,  which name become increasing popular  (xyzselfie) for 2 years ... 4 months ago I hired a VA to do a task. A miscommunication made this person submit my domain to the spammiest directories the internet has to offer. Also because of the domain name and the .com a lot of asian or weird sites/things posted links to my site.

I have worked on my site for the last 4 months trying to lower my spam score from a 9. I have:
-Disavowed all the sites that pointed to my site.
-Made more internal links
-Tried to make my content thicker 
-Included my email and social profiles to the site

In the process my competitors site with exact domain name but .net and more authority came on auction, I bought it and I pointed it with a permanent redirect to my site (hoping my site would in time lose its spam score).

This site will generate and income by appearing in search and adsense ads.

After months of work I'm at a loss what to do.

Does the spam score generally take long to drop? Should i try and stop the permanent redirect and direct my .com to the .net domain? Are there experts who can lower my score? Should I look for non spammy directories in its niche and submit my site to them to increase link authority and nofollow links ?

Any feedback or insight would be highly appreciated.

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