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Welcome to WOT Wiki!

We are glad you are here! The WOT Wiki is a cooperative attempt to record information of use to the WOT community and we need your help too since this project is new!

• Please read our tasks and guidelines for contributions.

Frequently Asked Questions

• I need help because I am new to WOT.
  • Get started and see the tutorial videos and other information on the Support section.
• What is rating reliability and how does it affect WOT's trust in me?
• What is a scorecard, what do the different colors and the various sections mean? See also the full list of rating symbols.
• How does the activity score work?
• The official FAQ didn't have answers to your questions? Find more answers in the user-contributed Wiki FAQ!
• The WOT rings are useful. I can see if a site is rated badly or excellent for external links. Can I add it to my website too?
  • Please take a look at the WOT widget that is available to all!
• Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer. Is WOT plugin available for Opera too?
  • Yes, it is available for Opera too! Please see the user-created WOT for Opera bookmarklet for more details.

Documentation

• History behind WOT: the when, why, and how...
• Using the rating window for rating websites
• Do you hate it when websites hold your data hostage? You can export your ratings and comments.
• Comment restrictions enabled to reduce forum and scorecard spam.
• Rating subdomains
• Trusted Sources are automated ratings with scorecard references in addition to the WOT user ratings.

Development

• Use reputations in your application through the API.
• Download the source code for the WOT add-on. Read the version history for our Firefox, Chrome, and Safari add-ons.
• Read more about the ongoing experiment for rating shared hosts.
• Have ideas for future improvements? Share them with the rest of us!

Adding on to WOT Plugin

• Learn to create new search rules for the Firefox add-on or find a user-contributed search rule not included with the add-on.
• Use the scorecard search plug-in or get a scorecard accelerator (for IE 8 and newer)

Useful Tools you should consider using

• Business / Corporation certification
• The mass rating tool, available to all Platinum WOT members
• Online tools
• HTML Codes - Characters and symbols

Understanding Internet Threats

• Beware of Adware, Ads, Backdoors, Blended Threats, Botnets, Browser Exploits, Fraud, Identity Theft, Keyloggers, Malware, Phishing, Pop-ups, Ransomware, Riskware, Rootkit, Spam and Junk mail, Spyware, Trojan Horses, Viruses, and Worms. Can you think of other threats?
• Learn about what other precautions you can take to enjoy safe surfing on the web!

How to improve your site's reputation

• Understand what is Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and why should your website have a privacy / cookie policy. Protecting your customers' or visitors' privacy allows people to trust you more.
• When requesting a site review on the main forum, here 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.
• Read more tips at WOT Trust Seal's Trust tips.

Learn to use the WOT Wiki

• How to edit a page?
• Read the User's Guide
• Find more help at MediaWiki FAQ