Yea, trust rank is not something Google has quantified with a little green bar like page rank. Hopefully they never will.
Trust rank is a figure of speech it is a term meaning the more trust you obtain from links from sites that have trust the more trust you gain. It is the sandbox2.0 term basically. Get links that are relevant to your content that have a lot of back links and that rank well. The better you rank the more trust you have.
TR is the same as PR but instead of standard links it takes into account the blog-oriented sites links.
That is incorrect. Please read the official research paper linked above. Search engines do not know what a blog is, they know what websites and web pages are. To them, that's all blogs are, just like any other site.
LOL!! pagerank fairy lmao im sure if u search on google god..there will be a fairy for pageranks to be found
ahkip, no one gives it to you. pragmatically, just check the 2 most important factors they state: authority of the linker and his site´s relevancy, is there something new?
I can't entirely agree with what mako has said about trust runk and blogs, but I also can't quite agree with Jeremy. So far my common sense was telling me that engines can't figure out if a site is a blog or not - for them a site is a site, period. But recently I've taken part in a very serious SEO contest (1st link in my sig) and I simply have to change my mind. All sites in the top of the rankings are some kind of blogs - mostly blogspot or wordpress powered, some also use bloglines and spaces.live.com engines. Live.com simply loves blogs, I've created few blogs myself and they outrank my main contest site despite having 100 less backlinks. Google is not so much in love with blogs but they still seem to get a lot of credit just for being blogs. To be perfectly honest I don't quite understand it but that seems to be the fact... The reason for this may not be that some sites are blogs but because they are hosted within super high quality PR9 domains like wordpress.org or blogspot.com...
Like others said, it's pretty much impossible to see your trust rank outright. You could assess your implied trust rank based on how much traffic you are getting from google, though. For example, some sites I make I'm aiming for MSN and Yahoo, and I'll just get any old link ASAP and it works well, but I get no traffic from Google. On my more serious and long term projects, however, I'll work hard to get authority links from places like dmoz, edu sites, organizations related to my theme, etc., and I can say that when I take this approach I get Google Traffic right off the bat with little or no sandbox-type delay. Unfortunately this usually means a delay for Yahoo/MSN rankings. So, from my experience, you really have two options: 1. Get fast rankings in MSN/Yahoo at the cost of traffic from G. or 2. Get traffic from G by getting fewer, but more targeted and "quality" links at the cost of immediate traffic from Yahoo / MSN (of course once you get enough of these "superior links" you'll see your Yahoo/MSN rankings move up as well. This is based on personal experience and fits nicely with the TrustRank concept.
There are a few reasons for this and it has zero to do with being blogs. The third party hosted blogs like blogspot are piggybacking off of the main domains authority. Blogs use social media and web 2.0 communications such as pings to get links and thus authority. A blog is a website, and nothing else. It's just uses a CMS system that allows it to network easier. So what Google and Live are seeing is a site, not a blog, that is networked and therefore trusted. And with the contest, I bet 90% of the entrants where blogs because of these networking tools and they can be setup in minutes with ready made templates which are usually 100% CSS and search engine friendly. Now back to the TrustRank algo show, which *cough*, has zero to do with blogs.