How rankings & sponsorship work

Ordering (ADR 0012)

Category listings are shown in bands: sponsored businesses first (clearly labeled), then verified businesses, then everyone else ordered by a usefulness/completeness signal. Paid placement changes order — it never changes verification status or invents quality.

The labels you will see:SponsoredVerified

Sponsored disclosure

Sponsored placements are always labeled “Sponsored.” Paying does not buy a verified badge or a claim of being objectively best.

Indexing

We only let search engines index pages that meet quality and density thresholds; thin or empty pages are kept out of the index.

Reviews & third-party content

SiteCity does not host its own reviews. Where we reference third-party sources, we link out and attribute them rather than copying their content.