How a city goes live

The short answer

A city page is published — and allowed into search engines — only when it has enough genuinely local substance to be worth a resident's time. Until then it stays a quiet "building" page. The bar, plainly:

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  At least 20 verified local listingsReal businesses, confirmed as described in our verification standard.
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  Across at least 4 categoriesA city of nothing but restaurants is a menu, not a portal.
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  At least one upcoming local eventProof of a living community calendar.
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  At least one local guideSomething written for this city — not adapted from another one.

Why a gate at all

Most "we cover every city" sites publish thousands of near-empty pages and hope search engines don't notice. We think a thin page quietly spends a reader's trust — and trust is the only asset a local site really has. So the gate is automatic and has no exceptions: not for big cities, not for launch deadlines, not for us. When a city you care about isn't live yet, that is the gate doing its job.

Want your city next? Request it — real demand moves cities up the queue.

Frequently asked

Can a live city fall back below the bar? Content is refreshed continuously; if a city ever decays below the standard, it returns to "building" rather than sitting stale and indexed.

Homeland vs diaspora cities? In South Asia the whole city is the community, so coverage is comprehensive; elsewhere pages focus on the city's Desi life specifically. Same bar either way.