Editorial policy and review standards

This policy exists so readers can judge the work. Google’s documentation on helpful, people-first content asks publishers to make authorship, sourcing, and purpose obvious. We agree with that, independent of rankings.

Who

Byline: Pest Kill Editorial Team. Pest Kill is the publisher. We are not affiliated with the EPA, CDC, USDA, or any university. Citations to those agencies are citations, not endorsements of this site.

How

• Each pest page is an original article. We do not scrape or rewrite other directories.
• Identification and biology are checked against taxonomic names in current use and against extension fact sheets.
• Control steps follow IPM order: inspect, deny food/water/harborage, exclude, then targeted control.
• Field-kit product links, when present, are chosen by the publisher for that page. We do not scrape other sites’ Amazon modules.
• We do not invent homemade pesticide formulas. We do not recommend cancelled active ingredients.
• Wildlife pages emphasize legal exclusion and licensed operators, especially for rabies-vector species and migratory birds.
• Pages show a published date and a last-reviewed date. We do not change dates to fake freshness.

Why

The directory is written for people who already have a pest problem, not for search engines. If an article would not be useful printed as a field card, it should not be published.

Corrections

Email contact@pest-kill.com with the page URL, the error, and a source. Substantive corrections are made on the page; we do not silently swap in new copy while keeping an old date.

What we will not publish

• Graphic content that promotes cruelty or treats killing as entertainment.
• Instructions for illegal access, banned chemicals, or unregistered pesticide mixes.
• Medical claims that contradict CDC or other public-health consensus.
• Fake addresses, fake licenses, or implied affiliation with government agencies.
• Thin location pages that only swap a city name.