Get verified & listed
A listing here is earned, not bought — and the vetting is deliberately harder than you're used to. If your shop is insured, answers its own phone, and charges what it quoted, you're exactly who this directory was built for. If it doesn't, this page will save us both some time.
What you get
- A ranked profile with your services, service area, and direct phone line
- Calls and texts that go straight to you — we never resell or broker leads
- A Verified by LocksmithWiki badge you can put on your own site (SVG)
- A dofollow link to your website from your profile
What we'll check
- A live certificate of insurance — current, in your business name, verified with the carrier or agent. Expired or unverifiable certificates end the application.
- State license number, in every state that issues one — checked directly against the state board's record, not against what your website claims.
- Your public review history across Google and other platforms, including patterns that suggest purchased or incentivized reviews.
- That your phone reaches you — we call it. If it rings a national dispatch desk or a lead reseller, the application is closed.
- Ownership and address reality— business registration, and whether the address you publish is a real place of business rather than a mail drop or someone else's storefront.
The part most directories skip: we may hire you
While your application is open — and at any point after you're listed — we may place an ordinary paid service call through your public number, as an ordinary customer, without identifying ourselves. We compare the price quoted on the phone against the invoice, time your arrival window, and note how the technician conducts themselves on site.
We pay for that call in full like any other customer. You will not be told which call it was, or when it happened. If the quote and the invoice match and the work is clean, you will simply never hear about it.
What gets you removed
- A price that grows on arrival without a documented, disclosed reason — whether we find it on a secret-shopper call or in a verified customer report. One instance is enough.
- Lapsed insurance or a lapsed license found at any re-check.
- Reselling or brokering the calls that come from your listing.
- Purchased, incentivized, or fabricated reviews on any platform.
- Cash-only pressure or drill-first diagnoses on a lock a competent locksmith could open.
Removal is not a negotiation and there is no appeal fee, because there is no fee at all. You can re-apply twelve months after a removal, with the underlying issue documented as fixed.
Apply
Fill this in and we take it from there. Verification typically takes about five business days, longer if a secret-shopper call is part of it. We will follow up by email to request your certificate of insurance before anything goes live.
Prefer email? Send the same details to verify@locksmithwiki.org.