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title: Paid-Ranking Transparency Index
description: Point-in-time, source-backed observations across 25 paid-ranking services with no quality score or endorsement.
url: https://bestbid.lol/research
dateModified: 2026-08-27
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# The paid-ranking transparency index

Independent, source-backed checks of how paid leaderboards disclose rank, money, links and support. Version 1 includes BestBid plus 24 records selected from the money-sorted OutOutBid public directory response and displays them alphabetically.

## Open distributions

- [JSON dataset](https://bestbid.lol/research/data.json)
- [CSV dataset](https://bestbid.lol/research/data.csv)
- [RSS feed](https://bestbid.lol/research/feed.xml)
- [Methodology and limitations](https://bestbid.lol/methodology.md)
- [Free auditor](https://bestbid.lol/auditor.md)

There is no composite score. “Not found” means a signal was not detected in the returned HTML, not that it is absent across an entire service. Directory metadata is attributed to [outoutbid.lol](https://outoutbid.lol) under CC BY 4.0.