Be wary of agencies that do. Here's why ranking guarantees are impossible, disingenuous and against Google's own guidelines.
Discuss Your GoalsAt Blend Local Search Marketing we do not offer SEO ranking guarantees for four main reasons.
No one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google. It is actually against Google's guidelines to make such claims. Any agency that does is being disingenuous.
Search engine rankings depend on geography, user search history, device type, time of day and algorithm updates. What you see is not what everyone sees.
Ranking for thousands of keywords means nothing if they are not converting to customers. We focus on enquiries, conversions and revenue , not vanity metrics.
Making guarantees about something we cannot control carries built-in ethical problems. We stand by our work, but we will not make promises we cannot keep.
Rankings are a means to an end, not the end itself. We focus on the metrics that actually grow your business.
Google's algorithm is constantly evolving. It now considers:
This is why a #1 ranking for you may be #8 for someone else searching the same term.
Business ethics dictate that an agency should be transparent. Any SEO agency that offers a ranking guarantee is acting irresponsibly. Google's own guidelines warn against believing such claims.
"We do not stand by our work through guarantees we cannot control. We stand by our work through a decade of results, transparent reporting and clients who stay with us for years."
While we will not make any SEO ranking guarantees, we will discuss an actionable plan to get more visitors to your website and more clients through your door.
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