I am working for services website and planning to collaborate with online magazine and get blogs about our services and backlink. This digital magazine is specially for lifestyle blogs having DA 51 and spam score 67%. I need a suggestion. Should I do collaboration with this spam score. Is it safe to get backlink from the website with this 67% spam score? How could we find the real cause of the spam that digital magazine(we don't own)?
This spam score thing is a drama by DMOZ to save their own dying website. Give the people some useless tool, make them believe that google uses it, and fool the people into using their own website. There is not a single factor in the 17 point checklist of spamscore which indicates anything about the content or usefulness of the website. Its a total waste of time to check spamscore. If you think your website can benefit from other website, then go ahead and do the collaboration. Forget about tools and so called scores shown by DMOZ.
I don't recommend you link back to your website by just focusing on one factor. Check site performance or if you have any paid SEO tools then check the link toxicity and then take a decision on what to do or what not to do.