Affiliate Disclosure

The one-sentence version: when you click certain links on PestWatchDog and then buy a product or book a service, the company may pay us a commission — it costs you nothing extra, and it never changes a score.

This page exists because the FTC requires clear disclosure of material connections — and because you deserve to know how a review site pays its bills before you trust its reviews.

PestWatchDog is reader-supported. We earn revenue in two main ways:

1. Affiliate commissions. Links that use our /go/ path (for example, /go/terminix or /go/pestie), and some product links in guides, are affiliate links. Clicking one routes you to the company's site through an affiliate network, which sets a cookie so that if you buy or sign up — typically within 30 to 90 days depending on the program — the company pays us a commission. Your price is identical either way; the commission comes out of the company's marketing budget, not your pocket.
2. Referral fees for calls and quotes. Some phone numbers and quote forms on the Site are tracked. If you call or request a quote through them and connect with a provider, that provider or a marketplace may pay us a fee.

We do not currently run display ads or accept sponsored posts. If that ever changes, sponsored content will be labeled as such, loudly.

• No company can buy a ranking, a score, or a softer review. Scores come from the public methodology at /methodology; writers and editors don't see commission data when scoring.
• Commission size doesn't set position. Some brands in our top 10 have no affiliate program at all and appear anyway, ranked wherever the evidence puts them — including above brands that do pay us.
• Criticism isn't for sale either. We disclose the $199 exit fee of a brand we link to, and our lowest score (2.9) went to a brand whose category is heavily monetized across this industry. Removing negatives for money is the one offer we'll never take — see /contact, partnerships section.

Any link starting with /go/ is an affiliate link, full stop. Pages with affiliate links carry a disclosure line near the top, before the first such link. Tracked phone numbers are marked as such in page templates.

Fair question — most of our competitors earn the same way and it shows in their rankings. Our answer is structural, not rhetorical: public methodology with published weights (/methodology), dual reputation scores that surface the ugly numbers (1.3–1.4-star Trustpilot ratings sit right on our review pages for brands we link to), named cancellation fees in the main comparison table (/compare), quarterly re-reviews, and a corrections policy with teeth (/legal/editorial-policy). Judge us on whether the criticism on our pages reads like it was written by someone trying to sell you something.

Ask anything about how we make money: /contact (partnerships@pestwatchdog.com for business inquiries, editorial@pestwatchdog.com for everything else).