Directories and Privacy seal

How important are privacy seals or online guard services on directories ?

Some of the examples are "

http://bbbonline.org
http://www.truste.org/
https://securebiz.securelook.com/

Do you think they are of any help for web directories ?

 

I believe so, im all for things like that, i was recently reading on truste.org and il probably go through that one first, its worth the effort i feel.

On one of my directories i have a certified domain, it was very cheap to setup and i feel can add trust.

Basically anything that says your who you say you are and verifies email addys, phone numbers etc has got to be a good thing.

 

Thanks for your comments pipes.

I dont see many directories using such seal.

I have seen such on http://www.forplex.com/
@pete - what's that ?

 

Me neither.

What pete is using isn't so much a seal from what i can see, but rather a guidance or something similar, still kinda handy though.

Nice avatar by the way MeetHere, very eye catching.

PS: Ive discussed an SSL certificate here before too, as pointed out though, its not really neccessary.

But the seals i think are a great idea.

 

Well said pipes. For those using Paypal as a payment method, a SSL cert is not really needed.

 

Yes so that the directory owners don't take emails from their database and spam