About

BidNearMe is a public leaderboard for local businesses. No ads, no API keys, no revenue share. Rank is the bid, nothing else.

Live across 1 board · every number here is read straight from the boards themselves.

How it works

List free. Adding a business costs nothing. You hand over a website, we read the name, the description and the icon off it, and the business lands on the board. Nobody has to pay to be visible, so an empty board never stays empty waiting for a first payer.

Pay to climb. Every slot carries a price printed under it: whatever the business sitting there bid, plus a step. Pay that and you move the moment the payment clears. There is no auction to win, no quality score, and no algorithm deciding what your position ought to be.

Hold until outbid. You are charged once, not per click and not per month. The slot stays yours until somebody actually pays more for it, and taking a higher slot later costs only the difference, never the whole amount again.

Why local

Local search has been rented out for years. Google Ads bills per click, so the invoice grows with your own success, and the traffic stops on the day the card stops. A board is the opposite trade. One payment buys a position that is public, and a competitor has to spend real money in the open to take it from you. Every business can see exactly what the rank above it costs, which is the one number an ad auction never shows you.