Editorial methodology
Support the fact or mark it unknown.
The method is deliberately conservative: official sources first, resource-level facts only, visible provenance and reversible test publication.
1. Eligibility
A research record represents a legal public business, organization, venue, educator, directory or platform. It is independently authored by Adult Web Index and is not an official or owner-approved profile. Coverage stops at the resource boundary; hosted people, profiles and individual content items are excluded.
2. Evidence
Material facts must be supported by current official public pages. Each source carries an observation date. Seed labels, search snippets, personal contacts and editorial assumptions are not published as facts.
3. Synthesis
We summarize identity, resource type, public offer, location, language and relevant participation or safety boundaries. We do not reproduce catalogs, explicit media, individual rates or availability.
4. Review and maintenance
Records expose unknowns, a correction path and an opt-out path. A payment cannot override evidence. Material corrections update the public record and its provenance.
5. Measurement
The six-record pilot measures actual indexation, webmaster impressions and clicks, crawler fetches, official-site referrals, citations and documented brand mentions. It makes no forecast or guarantee about any of them.