This policy explains how content on searchterms.com is created, reviewed, and kept honest — including how we use AI, and how we keep commercial relationships from influencing what we recommend.
Independence first
Our rankings and opinions are editorially independent. Affiliate partnerships, advertising, and vendor relationships never determine a tool’s rating or placement. We review and recommend tools that pay us nothing whenever they’re the right answer. If a commercial relationship ever changes, the ranking does not move because of it.
How our content is produced
Our reviews and guides are researched and written by the searchterms.com editorial team and assembled with the help of AI tools, then reviewed against our standards before publishing. We use AI the way most modern publishers do — to draft and structure — but the editorial judgement, the rankings, and the responsibility for accuracy are ours. We follow Google’s guidance that content should be helpful and people-first “however it is produced,” and we hold AI-assisted drafts to the same factual bar as anything else.
Accuracy and sourcing
- We base claims on vendors’ published documentation and pricing, independent studies, and the consensus of experienced practitioners.
- We do not invent test results, fabricate statistics, or present staged benchmarks as real ones.
- Prices, plan names, and database sizes change often; we date our pages and tell you to confirm volatile figures on the vendor’s own site.
Updates and corrections
We revisit rankings and re-check pricing periodically, and we date material changes. If you find an error — a wrong price, an out-of-date feature, a broken link — please let us know and we’ll fix it promptly. Corrections are a feature, not an embarrassment.
Affiliate transparency
Some links on this site are affiliate links, clearly governed by our affiliate disclosure and marked so search engines treat them appropriately. You never pay more for using them, and you’re never obligated to.
Our standard, in one line
Would we give this same advice to a friend who was paying us nothing? If the answer isn’t yes, it doesn’t get published.