Ranking, Featured Listings and No Recommendations

Leinster Local does not make recommendations

Leinster Local is a directory, not a review or recommendation service. We do not recommend, endorse or guarantee any business listed on this site. The order in which businesses appear, and whether a business is featured, highlighted or shown with a badge, must not be taken as a recommendation, a judgement of quality, or a statement that one business is better than another.

Featured listings are paid placements

Businesses on our paid plans pay for greater visibility. This includes appearing in Featured positions at the top of category, county and search results pages, and on other pages of the site.

Every paid placement is labelled "Featured" where it appears. Featured positions are shared between eligible paid listings and rotated, so no business is permanently placed first.

How we order other results

Below the Featured positions, we order businesses using these main factors, in roughly this order of importance:

• Relevance to what you searched for: category, services and keywords.
• Location: whether the business is in, or serves, the county or town you chose.
• Plan level: listings on paid plans appear above listings on the Free plan.
• Listing completeness: whether the listing has a description, photos, opening hours and contact details.
• Leinster Local reviews: the number and average rating of genuine reviews left on our site.
• Freshness: how recently the listing was updated.

Where the site lets you sort results in other ways, such as by name or distance, the order you choose replaces this default order, though Featured positions may still appear first and are always labelled.

We do not accept payment for higher review scores, and businesses cannot pay to remove or hide reviews.

Badges

Badges describe only what they say. For example, "Verified" means the owner confirmed they manage the listing. It does not mean we have checked the business's qualifications, insurance, registrations, prices or quality of work.

Guides, articles and lists

Our county guides, articles and seasonal posts give general information. Where we name or link to businesses in them, this is not a recommendation. If a business has paid to appear in an article or list, we label it "Sponsored".

Do your own checks

Before you hire or buy from any business, make your own checks: compare more than one business, ask for written quotes, and check insurance and any registrations that apply. Your agreement is with the business, not with Leinster Local.

More information

This statement forms part of our Business Listing Terms. For questions about how ranking works, Contact us.