Aqualis
Independent press and catalog for books and physical music.
An award local businesses earn, not buy.
Rank in the top tier of your Google category for twelve months, hold a verified 4.5-star profile with 25 or more reviews, keep the listing accurate. Awardly issues the award. You pay nothing.
- Live at
- awardly.io
- Discipline
- Local business awards
- Built and run in
- Seattle, WA
An earned award for local businesses. No fee, no jury, no pay-to-play.
Most local business awards are sold. A business buys a placement, a plaque, or a spot on a list, and the customer reading it has no way to tell an award from an ad.
Awardly publishes the criteria, checks them continuously, and issues the award to businesses that already meet them. Nothing is paid to receive it and nothing is paid to display it.
How It Operates
5 System PhasesMeet the criteria
Rank in the top tier of your primary Google category over twelve months.
Hold the profile
A verified Google Maps profile at 4.5 stars or higher, with at least 25 reviews, and an accurate claimed listing.
Get reviewed continuously
Awardly checks the criteria on an ongoing basis. You do not apply.
Receive the award
Issued when the criteria are met. There is no fee to receive it.
Display it
On your website and in your storefront window. There is no fee to display it.
Core Capabilities
Published criteria
The bar is written down: top tier of your primary Google category over twelve months, 4.5 stars or higher, at least 25 reviews, an accurate claimed listing.
Continuous review
Awardly rechecks the criteria rather than issuing once and forgetting. There is nothing to apply for.
Free to receive, free to display
No fee to be issued the award, and no fee to put it on a website or in a storefront window.
The same test for everyone
One public standard, so a customer can tell what the award actually means.
An award local businesses earn, not buy.
Public criteria, continuous review, no fee.
Who It Is Built For
Local businesses that already rank in the top tier and hold a verified 4.5-star profile.
Exclusions
Who It Is Not For
- —A paid placement.
- —A subjective jury.
- —An affiliate program.
Extended Documentation
Awardly issues an Excellence Award to local businesses that meet a public set of criteria: rank in the top tier of your primary Google category over twelve months, hold a verified Google Maps profile at 4.5 stars or higher with at least 25 reviews, and keep an accurate claimed listing. You pay nothing. Awardly reviews continuously and issues the award, which you display on your website and in your storefront window.
It is not a paid placement, not a subjective jury, and not an affiliate program.
Designed, built, and run in-house.
Local businesses that already rank in the top tier and hold a verified 4.5-star profile.
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