Trust & Editorial Standards
Miami Biz Guide exists to help people in Miami-Dade County, Florida find real local businesses without noise, fake reviews, or paid placement. This page explains exactly how we keep the directory trustworthy — and what we will never do.
Our standards
- Independent
- Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated on behalf of any listed business. Inclusion is never bought — there is no pay-to-play placement or advertising inside listings.
- Built from public data
- Listings are compiled and cross-checked from public and openly-licensed sources, then de-duplicated so each business appears once.
- Verified website links
- A website is shown only after we confirm the site actually corresponds to the business. We never link to a site we could not match.
- No invented content
- We do not fabricate reviews, ratings, hours, prices, or business-specific claims. Figures on the site are counted from the current dataset at page-build time.
- Correctable & removable
- Business owners can request a correction or removal at any time, and every listing links to both forms.
- Dated for freshness
- The data update date is shown throughout the site so you always know how current the information is.
How we verify a listing
Every business is assembled from more than one public source and de-duplicated so it appears once. Website links are the most abused field in most directories, so we treat them carefully: a website is displayed only after we confirm it corresponds to the business it is attached to. When we cannot confirm a match, we simply leave the field empty rather than guess. Of the 27,531 businesses in the directory, 14,385 have a phone number on file and 6,197 have a verified website. See Data Sources & Attribution for the full source list.
How listing pages are written
Listing and category pages turn verified fields — name, category, city, ZIP code, phone, website, and service-area status — into readable summaries using structured templates. Numbers are counted from the live dataset when a page is built, never typed by hand. Category descriptions explain what a directory section covers; they never claim a specific business offers a particular service. We do not publish reviews, ratings, star scores, hours, or prices for individual businesses, because we cannot verify them at the source.
Independence & how we are funded
Placement in this directory cannot be bought. There is no sponsored ranking, no “featured” tier sold to businesses, and no advertising embedded inside a listing’s facts. Where the site shows general advertising, it is clearly separated from directory content and never changes which businesses appear or in what order. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any listed business.
Corrections, removals & your rights
Public data can be incomplete or go out of date, so every listing links to two forms and we act on both:
- Request a correction — fix a wrong detail or add a missing website, phone number, or address.
- Report or remove a listing — ask to have your business taken down, or flag inaccurate or inappropriate information.
The data update date (2026-08-26) is shown across the site so you always know how current a page is. Still have a question about how something works? Contact us.
Read more about the project on our About page.