How Jayde checks listings
Jayde lists business websites. This page explains, plainly, what we check, what the labels on a profile mean, and what they don't mean.
New listings
Every site submitted through Submit your site goes through an automatic spam screen. Submissions that look like spam or bulk submissions are held, and a person at Jayde reviews them before they're published. Other submissions go live without a manual review. A listing is not an endorsement: we don't vet the businesses themselves, their products or their claims.
Website checks
An automatic checker visits each listed site's home page on a rolling schedule. A profile's Last checked date shows when that last happened. Some sites block automated visitors. We treat that as a working site and never remove a listing just because the site blocks our checker.
We remove a listing only when there are clear signs the site is gone. That means the domain no longer exists, the domain is parked or for sale, or the home page keeps returning "not found". The problem has to show up on repeated checks over several days, and a second server on another network has to see the same thing. Removed listings keep getting checked, and they're restored if the site comes back.
The Verified owner badge
A Verified owner badge means someone proved they control the website in one of these ways:
- entering a code we emailed to an address at the site's own domain (for example, an address @example.com for example.com);
- adding a DNS TXT record we gave them to the domain;
- opening a one-time edit link we emailed to the contact address on the listing.
The badge tells you the listing is managed by someone with access to the site. It doesn't tell you anything about the business's quality or reputation.
Edits
A listing can be changed only by someone who opens a one-time edit link sent to its contact address, or by a verified owner. Edits made from the owner dashboard go through the same spam screen as new submissions. Doubtful edits are held for review. The Jayde team is told about every edit.
Alerts for owners
Verified owners can turn on email alerts in their owner dashboard if their site goes down, returns errors, or has a security certificate problem. Alerts are off until the owner turns them on. You get at most one email per problem, plus one when it's fixed. Every alert has a one-click unsubscribe link.
"From the website" text
If a listing has no description of its own, its profile may show a short passage marked From the website. It's taken automatically from the site's home page (the page's own description tag, or its first paragraph) and passes the same spam screen. Nobody at Jayde writes or checks it, and it never replaces a description the owner wrote. We only fetch it from sites whose robots.txt allows it. Owners can replace it by claiming the listing.
Corrections and removal
If a listing is wrong or you want yours removed, edit your listing, claim it, or contact us.