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The Clearwater pest control contract, and the firm that holds it

JD Smith Termite & Pest Control returns on four of the fifteen Clearwater pest control searches this contract tracks, and on every one of the four they are the last result the search returned. Their Florida corporation was registered in 1972 and reads ACTIVE on the state's own detail record.

Pest control — the mark

JD Smith Termite & Pest Control

Clearwater

Holds four of the fifteen pest control searches, last on every one, and fifty-three years on the register.

Open

Every reading on this page came from a public source that anyone can check. Each one names the register or platform it was read from, and the date it was read, in the list at the bottom.

The searches they hold, and where they come back

The contract fixes fifteen searches in writing before any work starts — the ones somebody in Clearwater actually types when they need pest control. This is where JD Smith Termite & Pest Control came back on the ones they hold, and what came back above them. A position reads “5 of 6” because it is a place in the list that search returned, not a rank we can see inside Google.

Where JD Smith Termite & Pest Control returns on the fifteen searches this contract tracks
The searchWhere they came backAbove them
pest control Clearwater FL7 of 71 directory, 2 franchise, 2 private-equity, 1 independent
pest control company Clearwater Florida8 of 82 directories, 1 franchise, 3 private-equity, 1 independent
termite treatment Clearwater FL9 of 94 directories, 1 franchise, 2 private-equity, 1 independent
Who should I call for termite treatment in Clearwater, Florida?5 of 51 private-equity, 1 independent

4 of the fifteen, read once on August 1, 2026. A single reading on a single day is a snapshot, not a trend, and nothing here claims a position holds tomorrow. Counts of who came back above them cover the domains whose owner we could establish; where we could not, the domain is left out of those counts rather than guessed into one, so they are a floor.

Who they are, on the record

Every line here is a filing the company made itself, read from the state’s own register on August 1, 2026. It is here because a contract names a company, and a company is whatever the register says it is.

Register

JD Smith Termite & Pest Control

Corporation on the register
J.D. Smith Co, Inc
Florida document number
411668
Registered
30 October 1972
Status, from the detail record
ACTIVE
Last event
Amendment, 11 June 2015
Trading name
J.D. Smith Pest Control Inc — registration G19000022120, active since 13 February 2019
Years from that registration
53
Annual reports
Unbroken from 30 March 1995 to a 2026 report on 7 January
Florida corporations under the same officers
Eight, of which three are active

Read from the register’s own detail pages, not from a search result. A found record is not an active record, and a status in a results list is not a status.

Why we are willing to name them

Naming a real company in public is a decision, not a flourish. Three things have to be true before a business appears on this board, and each one is a reading rather than an opinion. A business that fails any of them is not named, and the trade ships without a target — which has happened.

  1. No parent company stands behind them

    The corporation's own detail record carries officer and director rows only — a president, a vice-president and a director — with no member, manager or corporate-entity row of any kind. The market leader in this same trade prints an international parent as a member on its own Florida record, so this is a register that shows a holding when one exists. The street-address search on the principal address returns exactly one entity: this one.

  2. The corporation is live on the state's own record today

    The Florida detail record reads ACTIVE, its last event is an amendment of 11 June 2015, and its annual reports run unbroken to a 2026 report accepted on 7 January. The registered trading name reads ACTIVE on its own detail page and runs to the end of 2029.

  3. Every reading here was taken with a control beside it

    The archive readings were taken in the same session as a known-archived control, which returned the first capture our method file records for it, and a fabricated host, which returned an empty array — so a value here is a reading rather than a silence. The register window was opened twice from two different search terms and returned the same rows in the same order.

The field they sit in

Forty-five distinct domains came back across the fifteen searches, and twenty-three of them resolve to an owner. Directories take the largest share of the places these searches return, and the widest footprint of any operator belongs to a firm whose own Florida filing names an international parent as a member.

Who is competingDomains
Directories and lead aggregators9
National franchise brands3
Private-equity-held groups3
Independent local firms8
Seen too rarely to classify22
Distinct domains in total45

Counted across all fifteen searches. A domain seen once or twice is left unclassified rather than counted as independent — not knowing who owns something is not the same as knowing it is local.

What their reviews say, and what they do not

There is no review figure on this page for JD Smith Termite & Pest Control, and that is a statement about what we could read rather than about them. The one count that surfaced reached us through a second platform's business panel rather than from the platform that produced it, and it is a single small figure on a single hostname — too little, and too far from its own source, to stand as the review record of a company fifty-three years on the register. Google Maps served a page built by JavaScript in which every occurrence of the business name was the page's own echo of our query. A rating on a further directory was surfaced and refused; the reason is below.

You will not find a Google review count anywhere on this site. Google Maps returns a page built by JavaScript to every automated reader we have, on every one of these businesses, so any Google figure we published would be one we had not actually read. Where a number appears, it names the platform it came from instead.

How long they have been visible

Their domain has been archived since February 2013, and the termite page that comes back for the conversational termite question first appears in the archive in October 2015. First captures only: an archive dates when an asset became visible, and it holds no record of search results at all. The register keeps the far longer clock — a 1972 corporation and thirty-two consecutive annual report years.

What we are not claiming

Research turns up things that do not survive a second look, and things that are true but not ours to publish. Both are listed here, because a page that prints only the flattering half of its own evidence is a sales page, and this is supposed to be a record.

A rating one further directory publishes about them.
It was surfaced again on this pass and refused again. We never read the evidence under it — that directory's profile is closed to every automated reader we have — and a one-platform adverse rating on evidence we did not read ourselves does not go on a public page about a named business. The figure is not restated here at any confidence, and neither is what it said.
Their Google review count and rating.
Google Maps served a page built by JavaScript in which every occurrence of the business name was the page's own echo of the query we submitted. That is a shell, not a reading. There is no Google figure on this board for any of the thirteen trades, and there will not be one until somebody pays for it.
Their licence standing, in either direction.
Pest control is licensed by the Department of Agriculture rather than by the construction board, and that register serves a report shell to anything without a browser. We could not read it. Being unable to read a register is a fact about the register, and it is never a finding about the business.
Anything about their work, their service or their complaint record.
One platform's panel carries individual review text and per-review star values for this business. None of it is read, quoted, counted or characterised here, and none of the dates on it is used to say anything about how recent their custom is. The same goes for the single customer review a bureau displays.
That the fifteen searches were run twice.
They were run once. Our own standard is the intersection of two runs, that standard is not met here, and the four positions in the table are published as a single reading rather than as a settled one.

Which Clearwater pest control searches does JD Smith come back on?

JD Smith Termite & Pest Control returns on four of the fifteen Clearwater pest control searches this contract tracks: the head term, the company term, the termite service term and a conversational termite question. On all four they are the last result that search returned — seventh of seven, eighth of eight, ninth of nine and fifth of five.

That is the thinnest position on this board, and it is not a near miss: the same pattern reproduces on four separate searches in one run. Eleven of the fifteen returned them nowhere in the organic list at all.

Both of their service-term results are termite queries, which is the second of the two buyers this trade has. One buyer sees an ant and signs a quarterly plan; the other has a swarm, mud tubes or a closing inspection and buys a job. The four searches they hold sit almost entirely with the second one.

Who comes back above the Clearwater pest control target, and who owns them?

On the largest Clearwater pest control search six results come back above JD Smith Termite & Pest Control: two franchise brands, two private-equity-held groups, one directory and one other independent firm. Across all fifteen searches the widest footprint belongs to a firm returning on eleven of them, whose own Florida filing names an international parent as a member.

Counted by result slot rather than by domain, directories take a little over a third of every place these fifteen searches return, and firms with a parent, a franchisor or a national platform behind them take a further third again. That is the market structure the contract is priced against, and it is why this trade carries an at-risk grade rather than a clean one.

The grade is not a mood. It fires when the widest footprints in a trade belong to consolidators, and on this run four of the five widest operator footprints do. The fifth is a multi-state independent rather than a firm working out of one office in this county.

How old is the Clearwater pest control company on the Florida register?

JD Smith Termite & Pest Control trades under a registered fictitious name owned by J.D. Smith Co, Inc, a Florida corporation registered on 30 October 1972 that reads ACTIVE on the state's own detail record. Fifty-three whole years have elapsed since that filing, and the annual-report chain runs unbroken from 1995.

The register carries seven further Florida corporations under the same officers, and six of the eight names carry this trade in them. Three of the eight are active and five are dissolved or merged; the earliest merger in the family was recorded on 10 October 1983 and is internal to it. Not one of the eight is earlier than 1972, so the family extends the age by nothing at all.

One of the three live corporations carries the operating trading name word for word and sends its mail to the address the operating corporation files from, changed to it in January 2018. That is a filing that links them, which a shared surname on its own would never supply.

The family is a family and not a parent. No filing on any of the eight names a corporate member, a holding company or an outside owner, and the only name on the officer search that reaches beyond the family belongs to the outside registered agent, who runs an agent service of her own — which is the opposite of a parent.

Where each of these came from

Every register and platform read for this page, with the date it was read. Follow any of them and you will land where we landed.

  1. Florida Division of Corporations — Corporation detail record

    search.sunbiz.org · read August 2, 2026

  2. Florida Division of Corporations — Entity-name search, read as an alphabetical window

    search.sunbiz.org · read August 2, 2026

  3. Florida Division of Corporations — Detail record for the sibling corporation carrying the trading name

    search.sunbiz.org · read August 2, 2026

  4. Florida Division of Corporations — Detail record carrying the family's 1983 merger event

    search.sunbiz.org · read August 2, 2026

  5. Florida Division of Corporations — Name-history record for the renamed sibling

    search.sunbiz.org · read August 2, 2026

  6. Florida Division of Corporations — Fictitious-name register, read as an alphabetical window

    dos.sunbiz.org · read August 2, 2026

  7. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services — Company licence register, attempted

    aeslicensing.fdacs.gov · read August 2, 2026

  8. Better Business Bureau — Business profile

    bbb.org · read August 2, 2026

What this contract costs, and why this number

The pest control contract is $12,000 for ninety days against JD Smith Termite & Pest Control. Half is due on execution and half only if you finish ahead of them. The figure is computed from four readings — how many of the fifteen searches they hold, how many other firms are ranking alongside them, how long the company has existed, and how consolidated the trade is — and it is scaled against the other twelve trades on the board rather than pulled from a rate card.

How the result is measured, in full →Every published price →

Common questions

Why does the Clearwater pest control page publish no review count?
Because the only figure we could obtain was small, sat on one hostname, and reached us second-hand through another platform's panel rather than from the platform that produced it. Printing a number like that beside a named business does not report a weak position — it reads as a claim about their whole reputation, and one directory cannot carry that. A stated silence is more honest.
Does fifty-three years make the pest control contract harder to win?
It raises the price, because age usually travels with a customer base and a name people already know. It does not decide the searches. They come back on four of the fifteen, last on every one of the four, while the domains taking the head of this field are national brands and consolidator groups rather than the long-established local firm.
Why does the pest control table say “ninth of nine” instead of a Google rank?
Because that is what we actually read. Each of the fifteen returns a list six to ten long, and the number we publish is a place inside that list. We have no view into Google's own ordering, nobody selling you a rank does either without paying for it, and dressing a list position up as a rank would be inventing a measurement.

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