Ranking Badges for Listed Providers
Every active, scored provider in our rankings has earned a badge it can embed on its own website. Badges are generated live from our database: they show your current tier, update automatically as rankings change, and link visitors to your full profile — the scores, reviews, and certifications behind the ranking.
Eligibility Tiers
| Tier | Eligibility | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Top 10 | Ranked #1–#10 by Default Fit Score | The badge shows your live rank number. |
| Top 25 | Ranked #11–#25 by Default Fit Score | The badge shows your live rank number. |
| Ranked & Reviewed | Any active, scored provider in our database | Confirms your firm passed our data-quality bar and is scored on all public criteria. |
Rankings recompute nightly under our published methodology. No provider pays to be listed, ranked, or badged — badges cannot be bought, only earned.
How to Embed Your Badge
Your exact snippet — with your slug and current tier already filled in — is on your own profile page, in the “show off your ranking” card near the bottom. It looks like this:
<a href="https://itsupportchicago.net/vendors/YOUR-SLUG?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=embed"
title="Your Firm on IT Support Chicago">
<img src="https://itsupportchicago.net/api/badge/YOUR-SLUG"
alt="Your Firm — Top 10 on IT Support Chicago (2026)"
width="220" height="64" loading="lazy">
</a>Add ?theme=dark to the image URL for a dark-background variant.
Usage Terms
- The badge must link only to your own profile page on this site — never to our homepage or any other page.
- Keep the link text and image alt text as provided: your firm’s name and factual tier. Don’t add keyword-heavy anchor text — it violates Google’s spam policies and our terms.
- Google’s guidelines recommend adding
rel="nofollow"to embedded badges. That is completely fine with us — the badge’s value is showing prospects your independently verified ranking, not search-engine mechanics. - The badge always renders your current tier. If your ranking changes, the badge changes with it; if your firm is delisted, the badge stops rendering entirely and must be removed from your site.
- Don’t recreate, screenshot, or modify the badge image to freeze a past tier.
Questions?
Email data@itsupportchicago.net — including if you believe your firm’s data or ranking is wrong; verified corrections are applied as dated updates.