DuctCleaning.ws

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Affiliate Disclosure

Direct answer

There are no affiliate links on this site today. Nothing on DuctCleaning.ws earns a commission, nobody has paid for placement, and no company has been given favorable coverage in exchange for anything. If that changes, this page changes on the same day, and any page carrying a paid link will say so where the link appears rather than only here.

Where things stand today

This site currently earns no revenue of any kind. To be specific rather than vague about it:

  • No affiliate links, in any article, tool, or list.
  • No sponsored content, sponsored sections, or paid articles.
  • No paid placement, directory listings, or advertising from duct cleaning companies.
  • No display advertising network configured.
  • No product review that earns a commission, because we publish no product reviews.
  • No payment, product, service, or consideration of any kind received in exchange for anything published here.

External links on this site are citations. They point at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidance, attorney general filings, court complaints, trade association pages, and published cost data, and they exist so you can check our work. None of them pays us anything.

What would change if we add affiliate links

The intended funding model for this site is display advertising, and possibly a small number of affiliate links where a product is genuinely relevant to something we are already explaining. If that happens, three things follow.

  1. Disclosure at the point of the link. A clear statement appears on the page carrying the link, near the link, in plain words. A disclosure buried on a policy page nobody visits is not a disclosure, which is why this page alone will never be the whole answer.
  2. This page is rewritten first. It will name what kind of relationships exist and where they appear, and it will keep the record of what changed and when.
  3. The reasoning stays visible. If we ever suggest a product, the page will explain why in terms of the evidence, so you can judge the recommendation on its merits rather than on our word.

The commitment that matters

Money does not move conclusions

No commercial relationship, present or future, will change what we conclude from the evidence. If a page recommends against buying a service, that recommendation stands regardless of what it costs us. If an affiliate relationship ever conflicts with an honest assessment, the relationship goes, not the assessment.

This is easier for us to promise than it would be for most sites in this category, because our central editorial position runs against the sale. Following EPA guidance, we tell most readers that their homes probably do not need duct cleaning, that a dusty return grille is normal, and that years passing is not a reason to book anything. A publication whose income depended on people buying the service could not print that sentence.

What we will not do, at any price

  • Lead generation. We will not collect your address or phone number and sell it to contractors. This is the dominant business model in duct cleaning content and it is precisely what makes the rest of the category unreliable.
  • Paid coverage. No company will be able to buy an article, a mention, a link, a directory listing, or a better position in one.
  • Removing accurate reporting for money. The enforcement record we publish comes from public filings. It is not for sale and it is not negotiable.
  • Undisclosed relationships. If it pays us, it gets labeled. Every time.

How to hold us to this

Check the review date at the foot of this page. If you are reading it and the site carries affiliate links or advertising that this page does not describe, that is a defect in our own process and we want to hear about it through the contact page. Corrections to policy pages are handled the same way as corrections to anything else, under the corrections policy.

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