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Welcome to TrustGauge
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easiest way to determine if the website you are visiting is
trustworthy. As part of the free
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TrustGauge™ Scoring Chart:
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Substantial
information and contact resources provided;
recognized as "very trustworthy" by others. |
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Significant amount of
contact information provided; recognized as
"trustworthy" by many users. |
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This site makes
contact information readily available; recognized as
" moderately trustworthy" by others.
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Basic information is
provided by this site, recognized as "somewhat
trustworthy" by others; average disclosure. |
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Lacks most basic
contact information; recognized as "listed" but with
the lowest possible score. |
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Unrated site;
insufficient amount of information is available to
properly assign a trust score. |
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TrustGauge Scores are determined solely by
information contained in our database. To modify a
website TrustScore,
click here. |
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Factors used to
determine a website TrustScore |
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Website
Content Points |
Website
Feature Points |
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Email address or feedback form |
2 |
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Postal address (not a PO box) |
2 |
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Top 100 overall traffic ranking |
45 |
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Brick & Mortar for clients to
visit |
1 |
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Top 1,000 overall traffic ranking |
35 |
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Top 10,000 traffic ranking |
10 |
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Top 100,000 traffic ranking |
5 |
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A person answers the phone |
1 |
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Top 1,000,000+ traffic ranking |
1 |
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Top 10 within business category |
5 |
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Third Party Validation Points |
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ValidatedSite™ |
55 |
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TRUSTe |
29 |
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Thawte |
27 |
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BBB
Privacy Seal |
28 |
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Other
seals |
TBD |
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What Factors Determine a
Website Trust Score?
Website Content & Business Availability: TrustGauge scores a
website based on the availability of information such as email
address, feedback forms, postal address, physical location for
clients to visit, available phone numbers, toll free phone numbers,
that the customer service or sales office answers the phone and the
existence of a privacy policy page.
Website Features & General Popularity: TrustGauge scores a
website based on its website features and general popularity among
web users; some of the criteria analyzed includes the presence of
secure billing pages and their overall traffic rank according to
Ranking.com.
Third Party Validation: TrustGauge takes trust analysis a
step further and checks the presence of third party validation.
Websites and businesses that invest in third party validation and
verification are awarded additional points for their effort in
attempting to build consumer confidence on the Web.
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TrustGauge helps Web surfers save time
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consumers through the TrustGauge scoring tool - an unbiased and
objective review system which is not sponsored in order to retain
total impartiality. By automatically displaying a degree of
trustworthiness for each visited site, consumers can see at a glance
the same factors that over 100,000 thousand others are using to
determine if a website can be trusted.
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