How listings are researched
Every listing follows the same eleven steps, and unsourced facts are left blank.
- Discover candidates from search results, partner directories and awards lists. Secondary directories are used for discovery only; we do not copy their profiles, text or reviews.
- Confirm identity: an identifiable business with an official website.
- Confirm an SEO offering on the agency’s own pages. Generic marketing language is not enough.
- Verify locations: an office needs a street address printed on the agency’s site. City landing pages are not offices.
- Classify services, platforms and industries from the agency’s wording.
- Record published pricing exactly as stated, by type and currency.
- Find case studies and keep the agency’s claim, metric and period.
- Check credentials against the page or issuer directory.
- Save sources: URL, quoted sentence and date.
- Deduplicate by website and legal identity.
- Publish only claims whose quoted source text can be matched on the live page.
An automated check re-fetches each cited page and removes any claim whose quote cannot be found. Pages we cannot fetch (for example bot-protected sites) stay marked as not re-checked automatically.
What we exclude
Businesses with no verifiable SEO offering, pure software, course providers, inactive or unverifiable businesses, duplicate lead-generation brands and anonymous listings.
Coverage
Coverage is incomplete and grows agency by agency. We do not claim worldwide coverage.