Type 2
Sites built to review their owner as No. 1
Review and ranking sites that a company built, or had built, so that its own product comes first.
| Listing | Spam meter | Type | Operator | Domains | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B2B TechSelect: Elogic Commerce's "best agency" microsites An ecommerce agency owns a set of exact-match "best-b2b-ecommerce-agencies" domains that each rank the agency first, and says so in the footer. |
93/100 | Self-reviewer | Elogic Commerce (elogic.co); editorial brand "B2B TechSelect", byline "Nina Kavulia, Principal Analyst" | best-ecommerce-consultants.com, best-b2b-ecommerce-development-agencies.com, best-custom-b2b-ecommerce-agencies.com, best-b2b-ecommerce-agencies.com and 4 more | High |
| Everything-PR and 5W Public Relations The PR news site that its owner once secretly used to praise his own agency now ranks 5W first among 26 PR firms, ahead of Edelman, and publishes "AI citation" ... |
88/100 | Self-reviewer | "A shared interest group that includes Ronn Torossian" (founder and chairman of 5W Public Relations), per the site | everything-pr.com | Medium |
| FameHero "Best PR Agencies, FameHero Ranked #1" Near-identical "10 top PR firms compared (FameHero Ranked #1)" pieces placed on technology.org and programminginsider.com, plus programmatic "8 best PR agencies... |
70/100 | Self-reviewer | FameHero, a pay-per-placement PR service | famehero.com | Low |
| GenOptima: "The 10 Best GEO Agencies in 2026", issued by GenOptima, won by GenOptima A press release on a newswire ranks ten GEO agencies by "methodology, tooling and documented results"; the company that issued it comes first, and ChatGPT picke... |
90/100 | Self-reviewer | GenOptima, Shanghai; media contact Zach Yang | gen-optima.com | Medium |
| Market.us / Prudour statistics network Thousands of formulaic "X Statistics By Market And Use Cases (2026)" pages across four sites run by a market-report vendor, built to be the number an assistant ... |
78/100 | Self-reviewer | Prudour Pvt. Ltd. (India) / Market.us | scoop.market.us, electroiq.com, enterpriseappstoday.com, sci-tech-today.com | Medium |
| Megri Outreach and Go2Blog Go2Blog's "Top Listicle Agencies for AI Search Visibility" puts Megri Outreach first and notes that Megri Outreach is operated by the publisher of the article. |
72/100 | Self-reviewer | Megri Outreach, "Part of the Megrisoft Family"; offices in Liverpool NY and Brampton ON | megrioutreach.com, go2blog.com | Low |
| Rank4AI and SEOCompare: a comparison site inside the agency's own fleet SEOCompare calls itself an independent comparison of UK agencies and features Rank4AI; Rank4AI lists SEOCompare as a sister site in its own "Fleet Site Structur... |
80/100 | Self-reviewer | Rank4AI Ltd (Companies House 16584507). SEOCompare claims Aston Rowe Ltd (16427276), director Oliver Mackman. | rank4ai.co.uk, seocompare.co.uk, seocompare.pages.dev | Medium |
| Trellner Research and the eleven vendor sites it ranks first The outfit that published the 215,128-page exposé of Gitnux and Worldmetrics turns out to share one server with eleven product sites that its own "surveys" rate... |
90/100 | Self-reviewer | Trellner Research (no legal entity or address). Products ranked first belong to Jakob Greenfeld, founder of Salience Strategy and Sales.co. | trellner.com, crossmention.com, nichementions.com, podcastplacer.com and 8 more | High |
| ofsearchengines.com: a 45-engine ranking under scrutiny This site appears to be LLM spam. ofsearchengines.com ranks 45 OnlyFans search engines and does not say who runs it. It shows no ads, earns nothing we can see a... |
85/100 | Ownership unverified | Not stated. Anonymous team, contact [email protected] | ofsearchengines.com | Medium |