Google Trust and how to get it.

Google trust

[calummacd]

Does anyone know anything about Google Trust?
I've heard that 500 sites were originally given it and that, that trust poured out over the web from these sites. Any truth it that?

Also Can you buy trust by being listed in the paid directories that review sites manually?

If this is the case does anyone have a list of these directories?

Or is there any other way to get trusted by google?

[wheel]

Like everything with Google, you get trust by your backlinks.

Pretty much everything beyond that is speculation. However, you're perfectly capable of determining whether a site will pass you trust. Consider this.

What has more trust? A low end affiliate site or a directory like BOTW that's been around since the 90's?What has more trust, BOTW or the front page of a large university? What has more trust, a link from the front page of a large university, or a link from the government?

Treat it as a variable like PR. More is better, higher is better.

Whether specific sites pass trust, nobody knows. However, using this attitude to develop backlinks *does* work as a strategy.

I suggest not looking for a laundry list of 'trust' sites, simply use this as an attitude when developing links. That way, rather than trying to figure out how to rank in Google, we're counting that displaying our site as trusted means it's Google's job to figure out how to rank us. (I'm betting that the folks at Google are smarter than me on this stuff. And I haven't been wrong yet :) ).

To put another spin on it, a site passes trust to you if it's trusted. And that site becomes trusted if it has sites that are trusted that link to it. Just like PR except it's not considered to be an iterative calc. So one thing to do when considering a trusted site is to check the backlinks of the site, see if those backlinks look trusted.