Canada’s principal commercial business directory, operated by Yellow Pages Digital & Media Solutions Limited. A free online listing is requested through the operator’s solutions site, and the same company’s terms define YellowPages.ca and its French counterpart PagesJaunes.ca as one set of sites.
Domain Rating is a dated Ahrefs snapshot of domain authority. PetroHrys Score is an independent editorial assessment of the directory’s practical business value. They are separate measurements and are never combined. Domain Rating values are dated historical Ahrefs snapshots. Domain Rating is a dated historical measurement of the shared domain, not an assessment of this individual registry page. New measurements are not collected because the Research Center does not depend on mandatory authenticated APIs. Where several registries are published on one measured domain they repeat that domain’s single dated snapshot rather than each carrying a figure of its own. Domain Rating is a third-party metric produced by their respective providers, not by PetroHrys.com. Each recorded value carries its provider and the date it was measured, and describes the domain that was measured rather than one page on it. No source has been consulted for authority score, estimated traffic and referring domains, so they are not published for any record.
The operator is named unambiguously in its own terms: sites are “OWNED AND OPERATED BY YELLOW PAGES DIGITAL & MEDIA SOLUTIONS LIMITED”, and the same entity holds the YellowPages.ca and Canada411 trademarks.
A free listing route is documented on the operator’s own solutions site under the heading “REQUEST YOUR FREE ONLINE LISTING”.
Public business profiles are openly accessible, with no login required to view them.
Ratings appear on business profiles and the operator’s help section describes account holders being able to “give your opinion on your favourite businesses”, so a consumer review function is documented.
Limitations
The free listing is REQUESTED, not published. The operator’s wording is “REQUEST YOUR FREE ONLINE LISTING”, and what the free tier contains is not enumerated on that page.
Everything else the operator sells around the listing — priority placement, websites, search and social advertising, print — is a separate paid product, and none of it is evidence about the base listing.
Creating a listing is confirmed; claiming an existing third-party profile is not documented, so no claim flow is asserted.
Whether verification is required, and by what method, is not documented, so nothing about verification is asserted.
Ratings and consumer opinions are documented, but whether a business can respond to them is not, and is not asserted.
The operator’s free-listing page carries a 2023 copyright line while the directory itself carries a current one, so the solutions site is less actively maintained than the directory.
A listing is a directory entry. It is not evidence that a business is solvent, currently trading, licensed, or checked beyond what the operator documents here.
No ranking, indexing, traffic or lead outcome is asserted. The operator markets outcomes; this record does not adopt them.
Canadian businesses wanting a listing in the country’s best-known commercial directory.
Businesses serving both English and French markets, since one operator runs both language properties under one set of terms.
Not recommended for
Businesses wanting to publish a profile directly. The free route is a request submitted to the operator, not self-service publication.
Anyone who needs the free tier’s exact contents documented in advance. The operator sets those out only after contact.
Preparation checklist
No checklist recorded yet.
Common mistakes
No common mistakes recorded yet.
Establishing required submission assets requires submitting a listing and observing the result. That has not been done for any directory in this dataset, so it is not published rather than estimated.
What this directory accepts
Startups
Unknown
SaaS products
Unknown
Enterprises
Yes
Agencies
Unknown
Freelancers
Yes
Local businesses
Yes
Developer tools
Unknown
Open-source projects
Unknown
Non-profits
Unknown
AI products
Unknown
Mobile apps
Unknown
Ecommerce stores
Unknown
Recommended industries
local-services
retail
professional-services
How the PetroHrys Score was reached
Editorial trust 15%
7 / 10How far the entries a directory publishes can be relied on as accurate.
Business usefulness 15%
8 / 10How much practical use a listing there is to the business being listed.
Verification quality 12%
5 / 10How thoroughly the directory establishes that an entry is genuine before publishing it.
Platform reputation 10%
8 / 10How the platform is regarded in its field. Deliberately not a popularity, traffic or recognition measure.
Spam resistance 10%
6 / 10How well the directory keeps low-quality and promotional entries out.
Industry importance 10%
8 / 10How central the directory is to its sector, independently of how useful one listing is.
Long-term stability 10%
8 / 10How likely the directory is to still exist, and to still carry the entry, years from now.
Submission quality 8%
6 / 10What the submission process asks for and how workable it is for the business submitting.
Transparency 5%
6 / 10How openly the directory states its rules, costs and criteria.
Moderation quality 5%
6 / 10How the directory maintains entries after publication.
The PetroHrys Score is a first-party editorial assessment, not a third-party
authority metric. It is the weighted sum of the ten factors above, divided by ten, so the number
on this page is reproducible from the values shown. Each factor is scored from 0 to 10 by a human reviewer and weighted as shown. The definitions describe what was weighed, not a rubric: no threshold or formula maps a directory onto a value, and two reviewers could reach different numbers. The score is reproducible from the factors shown on every record, but it is an editorial judgement, not a measurement.