Data sources
Where every number on Landscape Services Near Me comes from.
| Data | Source | How we use it |
|---|---|---|
| Company name, address or service area, phone, website, hours, categories, rating, review count | Public Google Maps listings | Shown with the source. Rating and review count feed the score. |
| Latest review date, reviews in the last 90 days, owner replies | Google Maps review dates (not read yet) | Dates and counts only. We never store or show review text, reviewer names or photos. |
| Years in business, service-area towns, license numbers, insurance statement | The company's own website (home, about and contact pages) | Labeled "from company website". Not verified. |
| Rank, score, rank movement, closest companies | Computed by us from the data above | Our own analysis. The formula |
| Areas (metro, micro area, county) and ZIP locations | U.S. Census Bureau ZCTA gazetteer and county to CBSA delineation files (public domain) | Groups companies into areas for ranking. |
How we read company websites
Our crawler identifies itself as EdenDirectoryBot, follows robots.txt, reads at most a few pages per site (home, about, contact), waits between requests to the same site, and gives up after a short timeout. Facts are found with fixed text patterns, not AI. If a site blocks us, we show nothing from it.
What we never collect
- Google photos. Company photos come only from the owner, sent through Improve your listing.
- Review text or reviewer details.
- Reviews from Yelp, Angi, Thumbtack, Nextdoor or any other site.
Refresh
Each page shows when its Google data was read and when the page last changed. Those dates are the real ones, not the date the page was built.
A company that leaves the list keeps its URL, which redirects to the page it was listed on.