How DrSEO reviews and presents listings
Clear rules for review, owner claims, editorial choices and paid promotion.
1. Baseline review
Before publication, we check that the website works, the profile is accurate and the site offers a real product, service, business or useful resource.
2. Relevance and category fit
Every listing has one main category. We avoid unnecessary duplicates and do not create extra pages just to manufacture search traffic.
3. Independent discovery
The DrSEO team may add a useful website independently, with no commercial relationship. The owner can later claim the profile and request factual corrections.
4. Editorial selection
Editor’s selection labels reflect independent editorial choices. They cannot be bought and are not automatically given to paying businesses.
5. Sponsored visibility
Approved listings can pay for extra visibility. Sponsored placement is clearly labeled and never bypasses the normal review standards.
6. Ownership and corrections
Ownership claims are separate from paid plans. Verified owners can request factual updates or removal after reasonably proving control of the listed website or business.
7. Review dates and ongoing accuracy
Profiles show when their directory record was last reviewed or updated. A date describes our profile review, not a guarantee that every external page remains unchanged. Owners and visitors can report factual corrections at any time.
8. Ratings and scores
DrSEO does not display invented user-review totals or synthetic star ratings. If an editorial score is introduced in the future, the scoring criteria, evidence and scale will be published beside it. Paid placement can never increase an editorial assessment.
9. No ranking guarantees
DrSEO does not sell guaranteed search rankings, fabricated traffic numbers or invented authority metrics. Search engines decide independently how they crawl, index and rank pages.
Editorial links and paid links
An approved free listing includes one regular link to the official website as part of the reviewed directory profile. Paying for Premium Profile or Featured does not purchase that base link or change it into a ranking product. Homepage placement is an optional paid add-on available only with active Featured. Additional promotional CTAs, advertising banners and paid destinations are commercial placements and are marked rel="sponsored".