How listings work here

Short version: we sell placement and enquiries. We don't sell links.

What gets listed

Any Arizona business that does organic work in one of our categories. Some listings were added by their owners. Others we added ourselves from public registers — the USDA Organic Integrity Database, the Arizona Office of Pest Management licence register, the Arizona Department of Agriculture apiary register, and association member rosters.

Every listing shows where its facts came from and the date we read them. If a listing is about your business, there's a link on it to claim it, correct it, or ask us to take it down. We do all three for free, paid listing or not.

What the Verified badge means

It means we looked up a specific credential in a public register, and we publish which one, what it said, and the date we checked.

No credential, no badge. Paying for a listing does not get you a badge — a current licence or certificate does. If a credential lapses, the badge comes off.

Paid placement

Paid listings sit above free ones and are labelled as paid, every time, on every page. Featured slots are limited and marked. Nothing about paying changes what we say about a business — the description on a paid profile still has to be true, and we'll cut a claim we can't stand behind.

Conflicts of interest

PickBits, which runs this guide, also sells growth and web work to Arizona businesses. Some of those businesses are in these categories, and some of them are listed here.

We disclose it on the listing. Where we have a commercial relationship with a business, its listing says so in plain words — on the card, on the profile, and on every page either one appears on — naming what the relationship is and when it started. Those outbound links carry sponsored, the same as any paid placement.

A relationship does not buy placement, wording, or a badge. Clients sort in the same order as everyone else, their copy is held to the same sourcing rules, and the Verified badge still comes only from a credential in a public register. If we ever can't write about a client the way we'd write about anyone else, the listing comes down rather than gets softened.

We don't exclude clients from the guide either. A company doing genuinely organic work belongs on this list whether or not it buys anything from us — leaving it out would bend the guide just as much as flattering it would.

Links

Every outbound link to a listed business is nofollow or sponsored. Free listings get nofollow. Anything paid, comped, or part of a business arrangement gets sponsored. There is no tier, no price, and no arrangement that buys a link that passes ranking signal, because selling those breaks Google's spam policies and puts both of us at risk.

What a paid listing actually gets you is a page on this site that we write, publish and work to rank, a citation with your name, address and phone stated consistently, and the enquiries that come off it. That's the product. It's worth more than a link and it can't be taken away by an algorithm update.

Corrections and removals

Use the form — tell us what's wrong and we'll fix it. Corrections go up the same week. Removals are honoured without argument and without a retention offer.

You don't need a listing, an account, or a reason to ask. If it's your business and you want it gone, say so and it goes.