Hidden location of my site being hosted on WA
I found this site to check for scam potential of a site and put my own in for fun. What concerns me is that it says the real location is being hidden. It is hosted on WA
my site is onlinescamsexposed.com
Site is United States based , But The Real Location is Being Hidden
This is the feedback apart from the fact that my site is not visited often( little traffic yet, no surprise!)
Does anyone have any ideas about the site being hidden?
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Maybe ask Kyle or Carson? Look at the summary and more if you enter www.wealthyaffiliate.com. You can comment and increase the current high trust rating of 76%. The WA is rated very popular.
Hi, Christine2.-Sometimes the "medicine can be more dangerous then the sickness" unfortunately, that is how some "rankers" take their "job" to be ...lest some 'rookie' shows up with a new idea they had not created. To me, saying 'it's too new or NEW' is like saying 'LOOK OUT' ghost under the bed, sleep with care! I don't know how you can remedy it, if any, so tolerate it I guess, BUT HOW LONG DO YOU HAVE TO BEE IN THE RANKS TO NOT BE SAID AS new"!
My mentor [grandfather of all things] says once their was a world series going into the last game of the World Series ...score 21 to 21 ...2w Outs ...last batter up ...3 balls and 2 strikes ...HERE COMES THE PITCH, THE UMP BEHIND THE PLATE CALL "TWO" --- all 3, the Pitcher, the Catcher and the Batter and 2 Managers rush to the plate and ASK WHAT IS 2, are you blind or something? The Ump, as king of the Hill says: "TWO CLOSE TO TELL" The brawl afterwards became famous, the world series DID NOT count and that it that, my friend. I hope you solve it, my friend!
Yes, age does seem to make a difference. My site probably ranks over 90% because it is over 5 years old.
I must admit most of the techspeak is all new to me too.
One interesting thing I did find though, I got a different rating when I entered my site with and without the preceding 'www'.
Both ratings were over 90% so I'm not going to concern myself with it, just curious as to why I would get two different results for the same site - it does make you question it's accuracy.
Just another thought about this, I wonder if it would be a good thing to put your Scamadvisor rating on your website?
Example: "This website is rated 96% by Scamadvisor.com" - you could then give a link to their site and to the reader this would add credibility to your site because another site has given it such a high rating :)
You guys are obviously more clued up and technical than myself, there is so much new info to absorb for me that I have not followed up on what exactly is Whoisguard and static servers and cloud hosting are new terms and concepts for me( I have heard of cloud hosting before I even joined wa and am making use of dropbox-also cloud hosted??).
I appreciate all the input here.Thank you!
Christine,
Don't spend to much time on sites like these that give you a safety rating,etc. I personally don't think that scamadviser is a reputable site.
Don't pay attention to these as all they do is slow you from just following the courses offered here at WA.
Keep up the good work that you are doing here at WA and you'll eventually start seeing traffic from the content that you create on your website.
Thanks Eddie, don't worry, I was just curious and yes , I will spend more time adding content and doing the training. thanks for the encouragement and i do hope that the traffic will eventually come and conversions follow.
Christine...:-)...hi, i remember that, when i was setting up my own domains at namecheap like it is said in the training with Kyle, that we enable a feature, for one year, that does this. It´s s good thing cause it protects your personal datas from the robots and therefore you will have immensly less spam in you inbox....you will find it in the training...wishing you a wonderful week - Janine
Hiya Christene! Some website hosts will give you a free year of apps like WhoisGuard that hide the identity of the owner of a domain. Sites like onlinescamsexposed will pick up on that as if that's a bad thing. I'm not sure about hosting here at WA. It's just something that's never really been a big issue addressed in any of our training that I remember.
Hope you're doing great Christene... haven't talked to ya' in a while! C'ya,
Randy
Yup, I'm pretty much right behind ya'... I keep getting distracted instead of just hammering out the posts and content. I know good and well that nothing is going to happen until I am consistently publishing content. I just tend to get writer's block and have such a difficult time getting past it. How does that work... major gift of gab, but can't come up with a topic to write on. I think someone decaffeinated my coffee when I wasn't lookin'!!!
LOL about your decaff coffee! Mine is filter coffee and definitely not decaff, but I just keep looking at my content and wondering if it is good enough. Somehow I just think everybody else's is always better, don"t know if it is because I am just so self critical . But I do have topics lined up , no problem!
Yah know Christene, I remember Kyle or Carson saying to just publish your most raw content (there'll be plenty of time to edit and adjust it later), just to give the Google bots something to discover. But I think there's something else to consider here. Some people go back and keep refining it down to the point that by the time they hit the 'Publish' button, all traces of their personality (voice) is gone and everything on the page is just sterile, so to speak. Now days, I publish it after doing a quick spell/grammar check. I want there to be plenty of 'Randy' in the content. Hopefully there will be a time when they click on something that I've written and it'll be like slippin' on some old favorite gloves or slippers.
Enough pulpit time.... back to my topic search!!! LOL!
I appreciate the interaction here. It has been valuable and thanks for the reminder to just get my content out there. I should put a big sticker up on the mirror or somewhere to remind myself!
They have not caught up with cloud hosting yet. Years ago, when hosting was done with static server location they could locate the server. Not anymore since cloud hosting is different
John
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It doesn't actually mean anything. It just means the domain has privacy on it.. Don't buy too much into sites like this. Think of them like credit scores. Your site is probably still young, and any little thing will upset the so called "security score".
That score by the way is determined by a computer, not actual people who know better.
No it doesn't mean anything but to potential customers visiting your site it gives them the impression that your site is trustworthy. They don't know that the Scamadvisor site might be a load of garbage.
"Rated 94% Trustworthy site by Scamadvisor - be safe and secure on this site". A line like that entices the customer and immediately gives them a sense of trust in your website. Hardly anybody is going to bother researching whether Scamadvisor is a genuine site because it isn't what they have come to your site to do but it could give your site a huge boost.
A simple thing like that could vastly increase sales on a busy site if only 1 in 100 people believes it. Most of the major companies around the world would welcome a 1% increase in sales with open arms!
Scamadvisor seems to offer a free "Trust Seal" for your website (tab at the top right of the site). Anything that makes your site looks more trustworthy to the general public has to help. Verisign claim that their seal, which is very expensive, can increase sales up to 34% but most people who shop online are not tech-savvy and I bet most of them have never heard of Verisign - they just like the element of trust it appears to give your site. This could do the same thing for nothing, even if it's complete garbage.
Well sure, you could load up your site with all kinds of free trust seals, and they'll mostly go ignored. Heck, if I saw them on a simple blog I'd only be more suspicious. As I always say, context matters. Does it mean anything that the location is hidden? Nope. Are your visitors going to go check scam advisor for your blog? Doubtful. Will posting some pictures of checkmarks and fancy looking seals help a blog? Absolutely not.
You could always test this for yourself and pay attention to the numbers. Even then, what does that test mean, other than people need reassurance for your particular site? What works for one is irrelevant to the next.
If you saw them on a simple blog yes, but then you're not likely to be trying to sell awful lot with a simple blog so that's a different scenario. However if you are running a larger authority or e-commerce type site then a lot of people are more wary so it makes sense to give yourself an edge. People are more likely to trust a site that has some sort of indication of trust status on it. That's not my opinion, you don't have to try it, just look at the stats for sites that use Verisign.
That's why major companies use slogans for their items like "The #1 Product" - it might be complete garbage but it sells. People like that reassurance that they are buying a better product or dealing with a better site.