Is there any quick and easy way (or tool) to check a domain for trust. It seems trust and age are the key factors in today's fast changing world of SEO. On my own domains - I have put up new pages and these get indexed and start SERPing in a few days. This suggests trust to me. However - how do I gauge trust for domains that are not mine? Thanks Bob
Unlike PR which has a precise mathematical formula, trust is subjective and means different things to different people. The people whose opinion on trust you want are the people who developed Google's algorithm, and they're not likely to divulge.
What do you mean trust and why you don't trust a site? Can a website harm you if you don't provide them with your credit card, contact and personal information? Anyway, you can use a whois tool to find the domain owner, plus a websites pr and alexa rank, you will know whether a website is trustable or not.
There is a trustgauge rating. But it is just like alexa. It is is not really about Trust element. >> Can a website harm you if you don't provide them with your credit card? Yes a site can harm in many many ways. The site might recommend people to download a free XYZ software that can help you do blah-blah-blah. Then visitor might end up installing a adware/trojenware.. Wrong information on some websites could lead people to do make incorrect decisions (financial websites, health related websites.....). If there is a trust rating, webmasters will find ways to manipulate it. Infact, the sites who cant be trusted will be the ones that will do anything to gain better rankings. Use your own judgements.If you are in doubt, dont trust a site.
I am talking about trust within Google. So if there is no real gauge of Trust Rank - then is it Page Rank that remains the only measure of importance and trust? What I don't get is that everybody (including Google) say don't focus so much on PageRank. But it is the only real gauge that Google gives the outside world? In G's own words; "PageRank is Google's measure of importance of this page". And it is telling all my visitors (with the toolbar installed) that my site is not important on a scale of 0/10? See image; But this is only a snapshot in time and I know that the site is important to G as it ranks on the first page for a term like Property Forum. So the fact is that I have Trust. But my users are not aware of it and people that might want to link to me have no easy way of gauging my trust... Bob
But how do you know that ranking highly for a (possibly uncompetitive) phrase is an indication that your site has trust? If the concept of trust is used by the search engines, the gauge for it is only seen by the search engines. Unless they make it public.