Guide readers to the right choice
Your byline on the rankings and guides in your field. Readers see who checked the answer and why they're qualified to.
Now accepting Expert Guides
Are you the Best Guide✦?
People come to BestGuide for the best answer to everything: which bank, which insurer, which hearing aid, which phone plan. Every answer should come from someone who really knows. If that's you, put your name on it.
For CFP® professionals, CPAs, licensed insurance agents, audiologists, contractors, ASE-certified technicians and other credentialed experts.
What you get
The best answer to everything needs the best guides.
BestGuide compares companies across money, insurance, health, home, auto, business, tech and travel. Expert Guides make sure every answer is one they'd give a friend.
Your name and your link
Every guide you sign carries your name, your credential and a “Learn more about me” link to your Expert Guide page, which links to your own website and LinkedIn.
A credential for LinkedIn
Add “Expert Guide, BestGuide” under Licenses & certifications, with your verified page as the credential link so anyone can check it.
How it works
You bring the expertise. We bring the research.
Our editors research each guide and date every fact. Your job is the part only an expert can do: make sure it's right.
Apply
Tell us your field and your credential, and attach your résumé. It takes about five minutes.
Get verified
We check your license or credential with the board or organization that issued it.
Review
Guides in your field land in your Review Desk. Read each one to the end, edit it, or send it back with a note.
Sign your name
When it's right, you sign off. It goes live with your name on it, and you get an email when it does.
Who we're looking for
Eight sections. One standard.
Money
Banks, loans, debt and taxesCFP® professionals, CPAs, enrolled agents, certified credit counselorsInsurance
Auto, home, life and petLicensed property-casualty and life agents, CPCU® and CLU® holdersHealth
Coverage, hearing and care costsLicensed health insurance agents, audiologists, pharmacists, benefits professionalsHome
Security, repairs and movingLicensed contractors, home inspectors, real estate professionalsAuto
Buying, warranties and repairsASE-certified technicians, auto finance and insurance professionalsBusiness
Software, payroll and bankingCPAs, small business advisers, software consultantsTech
Phone plans, internet and devicesIT and network professionals, telecom specialistsTravel & Life
Booking, travel and everyday servicesCertified travel advisors, consumer protection professionalsOur standards
Your name only goes on answers you'd stand behind.
- Nothing runs under your name without your sign-off. You read every guide to the end before you can sign it.
- Every fact is dated and sourced, so readers can see where it came from and when it was checked.
- Paying partners are labeled. BestGuide discloses which companies pay it, and you never sign a guide you don't agree with.
- No promises we can't keep. No guaranteed savings, approvals or results.
- Guides are rechecked on a schedule and updated when prices, rules or products change.
- Your credential is checked with the board or organization that issued it before your name appears anywhere.
Expert sign-in
Already an Expert Guide?
Your Review Desk has the guides in your field. Sign in to read, edit, sign off, or send a guide back with a note.
Questions
Good questions.
Do I write every guide from scratch?
No. Most guides start as a researched draft from our editors, with every fact dated and sourced. You can rewrite it, edit it, or send it back with a note saying what to change.
How much time does it take?
You choose. Most Expert Guides review a few guides a month in their field. A typical review takes 20 to 40 minutes.
Do companies get a say in what I sign?
No. Some companies pay BestGuide when readers click through, and those partners are labeled on the page. Your sign-off is yours: if a guide isn't right, send it back.
What goes on my Expert Guide page?
Your name, credential, a short bio, links to your website and LinkedIn, and the guides you've reviewed. Licensed professionals' bios follow their licensing board's advertising rules.
Who runs BestGuide?
BestGuide is published by Formula 8037 LLC dba BestGuide. This site, bestguidehq.com, is where experts apply and sign in.