The Trust Signals Blog is a leading resource on trust in PR and marketing, authored by Scott Baradell.

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Kay Dean: Fighting the Scourge of Fake Online Reviews

Nine in 10 internet users rely on online reviews before making purchases today—but two-thirds of consumers are worried about being tricked by fake...

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Hany Farid: Why We Trust Synthetic Faces More Than Real Ones

Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the world's foremost experts on the analysis of digital images,...

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Does Your Speaking Voice Inspire Trust?

As business leaders, we are always working to determine the best messages to communicate—to our customers, employees, investors, partners and others....

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Four Steps for Tech Companies to Win Back Customer Trust

Democrats and Republicans hardly agree on anything these days. But one thing they share is a growing distrust of Big Tech.

Big Tech — a group of...

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The Influence Continuum: Who We Trust in a Post-Truth World

By now you may have heard the term "post-truth." According to Oxford Dictionaries, it means "circumstances in which objective facts are less...

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Website Visitors Trust Confident Content. Can They Trust Yours?

You can feel it. You're working busily on copy for your company's website. You know how important it is—it's the first impression you leave about...

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The Fall of Stan Richards and the Rise of a New Era of Reputation Management

Note: first of two parts

Headquartered in Dallas, The Richards Group has long been one of the most successful advertising agencies in the United...

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8 Factors That Make or Break Brand Trust—and the Trust Signals Behind Them

Everybody's talking about brand trust these days, and for good reason. Buyer research shows that increasingly brand trust is the No. 1 factor that...

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Trust Logos: 8 Third-Party Logos to Convince Website Visitors You're Legit

Note: Trustlogos.com forwards to this post. 

We write about many kinds of website trust signals on this site, and some of the most important are...

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What Brain Scans Tell Us About Website Trust Signals

Marketers have begun to explore the use of neuroimaging—functional MRI brain scans—in determining what trust signals have the biggest impact on...

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