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Customizing the add-on

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The mass rating tool

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URL shortening services which WOT supports

As of April 8, 2011, WOT supports 57 URL shorteners

Other tools

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• Other helpful online tools

  many were taken from this forum discussion: Supportive tools

  if you have new ones, please announce them in the discussion and submit them in the wiki article.

Reference

• Business / Corporation certification

  FTC guidelines for website advertisements containing "testimonials"

• Microsoft Partners Directory
• Pharmaceutical reference
• Forum discussions / Software evaluations

Understanding Internet threats

• Beware of adware, ads, backdoors, blended threats, botnets, browser exploits, fraud, identity theft, keyloggers, malware, phishing, pop-ups, ransomware, riskware, rootkits, spam and junk mail, spyware, trojan horses, viruses, worms, clickjack, framekiller, macros, and DoS Attack. Can you think of other threats?
• Learn about what other precautions you can take to enjoy safe surfing on the web!
• Malware submission

How to improve your site's reputation

• Understand what Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is and why should your website should have a privacy / cookie policy. Protecting your customers' and / or visitors' privacy allows people to trust you more.
• Before requesting for your site to be reviewed in the forum, you should have a look at how to ask for ratings.
• Know common threats that you can find at The WASC Threat Classification which can attack your website and learn how to fix these possible exploits.
  • The WASC Threat Classification is a cooperative effort to clarify and organize the threats to the security of a web site. The members of the Web Application Security Consortium have created this project to develop and promote industry standard terminology for describing these issues. Application developers, security professionals, software vendors, and compliance auditors will have the ability to access a consistent language and definitions for web security related issues.
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