How do you know Google trusts your site? - Webmaster Forums UK SEO SEM Webmaster Community Forum

temi · #1 (**permalink**) 11-21-2007, 09:41 AM

One of the most important factors to get good ranking is being trusted by Google, how do you know that your site is trusted by Google?

mrcrowley · #2 (**permalink**) 11-21-2007, 10:10 AM

Good question that i have been meaning to ask myself.

To me google appears to show more trust when your site is around 6 months+ old and you have some solid backlinks from authoritive sites. Yahoo seems to take a lot longer to gain trust.

temi · #3 (**permalink**) 11-21-2007, 10:16 AM

Thanks for that Mrcrawley, but could you define what you mean by trust to me (whether from Google or Yahoo), I just want to make sure we are singing from the same hymn book.

mrcrowley · #4 (**permalink**) 11-21-2007, 10:42 AM

Well to be honest i don't know much about it other than it effects your ranking and that strong backlinks can help to boost it. Does it sound like i'm on the wrong rails??

Bagi Zoltán · #5 (**permalink**) 11-21-2007, 11:48 AM

I found some weeks ago an excellent article which discuss this. Let me suggest you to have a look at OWG's article.

temi · #6 (**permalink**) 11-21-2007, 11:54 AM

I know there are lots of article out there on this subject by experts, the idea of this thread for people like you (who is an authority in your own right) can put some of your skills and knowledge here at UK WW that people searching on this subject will hopefully be attracted to

So the ball is back in your court, what are your own personal experience of what constitute Google trust or can make Google trust a site?

Bagi Zoltán · #7 (**permalink**) 11-21-2007, 12:06 PM

As far as a i know the most important factors are the follows:
have a sitemap page,
write a privacy and policy text,
display your address on a contact page or else,
have backlinks from trusted webpages.
If you are ready i think you may be sure that google trust your site

temi · #8 (**permalink**) 11-21-2007, 12:13 PM

Thanks very much for that Bagi. I will just add one or two items:
i. don't link to sites Google does has penalty against (so call bad neighborhoods)
ii. Do not use site wide links too much.

And I think the ultimate way to know if Google trust your site or not is when you add a new page to your site, how quickly does it start showing up in SERPs? On my blog, I have had articles that start showing in Google SERPS with a few hours of the article being posted.

temi · #9 (**permalink**) 11-21-2007, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by mrcrowley

Well to be honest i don't know much about it other than it effects your ranking and that strong backlinks can help to boost it. Does it sound like i'm on the wrong rails??

You are very close to perfection MrCrawley, if you can just qualify the backlinks as "strong quality"

OldDarkstarAccount · #10 (**permalink**) 11-21-2007, 02:21 PM

Age + links from trusted websites

My site is about a business in Oradea...

My site is x years old

My site is linked from important sites in Oradea ( like the city hall , the local highschooll ) and maybe few links from an online newspaper and wikipedia.

-> my site has visitors...many visitors.

Have I been to short on my reply ?