04/08/2022
Hello everyone. I have been googling my website recently and stumbled upon a website called 'scamadvisor'. This website basically reviews all websites on the web and gives you an idea, if the website can be trusted. That is actually great, if you would like to buy something from a website that you never used before.
My website has had different rankings starting from 'safe' to 'small risk identified' in the last months. Just wanted to share, how random this score can be. My hosting is an official one, with all appropriate certificates and proper integration with PayPal etc. But this website still thinks that I am 67 out of 100 😅
Why is my website potentially identified as a 'small risk'?
1. Relatively young website (under 1 year)
2, Low traffic (no ads running, mostly organic visitors)
3. My identity is not confirmed in their system (they want me to send a copy of my ID to their site).
As a small business owner, I feel that this is really unfair. Also I know that many Shopify shops have similar issues with this ranking. And most of online shops operate with Shopify these days. Will be interesting to see, if the ranking will change after my shop officially turns 1 year :)