Jun 22
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I’m writing this after John Mueller caused a minor stir on Twitter on Monday, with this post: The concept of toxic links is something that’s made up by SEO tools — I’d just ignore it, and perhaps move on to more serious tools. — 🐝 johnmu.xml (personal) 🐝 (@JohnMu) June 6, 2022 Now, at Moz we do not actually use this “toxic” language in our tools or accompanying guides, so this probably isn’t aimed at us. That said, I do think there’s an interesting discussion to be had here, and our competitor Ahrefs made an interesting conclusion about how this applies to “Spam Score” third party metrics, which of course is a term we coined: Good thing we managed to resist this very popular feature request for quite a few years.
See the original post here:
In Defense of Spam Score and the Concept of a Toxic Link