Commercial transparency

How Thailand Directory makes money

Revenue is designed around useful actions—qualified enquiries and clearly labeled sponsorship—without selling evidence badges or organic rank.

Commercial rules

The founding sponsor offer is the only priced sponsorship product currently published: one separate homepage card for THB 2,500 for 30 consecutive days. If sold and activated, it is labelled “Sponsored · Founding pilot” for its entire display and never appears inside an organic result list. An “open partner inventory” house card is an invitation to apply, not a paid endorsement or evidence that a sponsor has purchased the slot.

Outbound measurement for an active sponsor uses a separate table containing only the sponsor identifier, calendar date, and aggregate click count. The destination receives standard campaign parameters. Thailand Directory does not attach a cookie, IP address, device identifier, name, or email to the sponsor metric, although the redirect passes through the same short-lived standard security access logs as other site requests. The privacy policy explains those logs and retention.

Academy underwriting is an interest-only concept. No academy placement, price, or contract is currently offered, and there is no current course underwriter. If underwriting is introduced, it will be visibly separated from lesson conclusions, completion checks, and official-source sections, with public terms before payment is accepted.

Sponsored placements do not alter organic scores, directory order, evidence labels, reviews, course conclusions, or editorial recommendations.

Qualified enquiries are not live yet. If introduced later, every recipient will be identified before personal information is sent. Providers may pay for a valid lead, not for a favourable editorial outcome.

Affiliate links are not currently active. Any future affiliate action will be disclosed beside the link and marked for search engines while editorial comparisons and a non-affiliate route remain available.

Owner claims are free. Payment is never required to correct factual business information.

What payment cannot buy

Payment cannot buy organic rank, verification, a favourable review, deletion of accurate criticism, exclusion of a competitor, or guaranteed traffic, enquiries, course completions, bookings, or sales. Sponsorship can be refused or ended when a business cannot substantiate its identity, offer, destination, or Thailand relevance.

Read the commercial terms, refund policy, or contact support.