Let's Discuss Site Trust
Many of us have encountered scams along the way on our journey to Wealthy Affiliate, so we KNOW what it is to be on the receiving end of Unfair Business Practice.
We on the other hand want to conduct Fair Business Practice so that more and more people will want to come to our site again. So we make sure we don't promote anything that would lead to bad or Unfair Business Practice.
When you first start out with your website, the Search Engines don't know what your site will produce, so they don't trust new sites. You have to prove over time that your site is trustworthy and has a good standing within the online internet world.
The more you conduct your business online in an honourable and worthy fashion, the more your site will become trustworthy. Your site's Site Trust percentage will rise in time.
Now that we know what Site Trust is, let's move on to Google Ranked sites.
I have been through lots of critiques in my design careers; (interior design in school and web design from clients). Good feedback is not subjective comments like "It's too dark". That is a design preference statement. A more constructive statement would be like, "The text color is too hard to read with its background color-there needs to be more contrast".
Something like that about design principles and elements which also include layout, but are not limited to visuals. Even writing can be addressed. One thing I do and catch myself is to use the same words too often. So it can get boring and repetitious to do that and if that were pointed out it would be constructive and helpful to me.
I have seen some unimpressive web designs on the first pages of Google, (not anyone here . . . just when browsing), so I don't think the search engines see design but it is good to pay attention to it anyway, LOL.