Rock the Rankings vs. Embarque

Both agencies publish a full ladder. Embarque bills three months upfront; we bill monthly.

Embarque's three plans are on its home page with checkout links: Starter at $2,500 a month for around 15 pages in one subfolder with technical SEO and GA4 and Search Console analysis, Engine at $4,995 for around 40 pages across two subfolders with technical implementation, and Managed from $9,500 with regular strategy calls and a custom scope. Every plan carries a three-month minimum paid upfront through Stripe, $7,500 for Starter and $14,985 for Engine, and renews every three months. Add-ons are priced too: extra pages from $1,250 a month, an extra subfolder at $2,000, backlinks at $2,000 for five to seven editorial links, a ten-page content refresh at $1,500 one-time, strategy calls at $400 each. A free sample page comes before any payment.

Rock the Rankings is $5,000 for Consulting, $8,500 for Done-For-You and $15,000 for Authority a month, with no onboarding fee, on a monthly plan with no minimum term and 30 days' notice. Day 90 is the first forecast review, measured against the conservative scenario you received before signing.

Embarque ranks every page by revenue potential. We put a pipeline number on the programme before the contract.

Embarque builds a revenue-based strategy on every plan, with priorities ranked by demand, fit and revenue potential, a strategy ready in days from AI analysis of your site, competitors and buyer questions, and a free SEO ROI calculator on its site; its monthly report shows what moved. It publishes no pre-contract forecast, scenarios or committed number.

Rock the Rankings builds three scenarios (conservative, realistic, optimistic) from your GA4 and CRM data before any agreement is signed, with capture rate as the only input that changes between them. The conservative scenario is the commitment, reviewed at day 90 and quarterly after.

Embarque builds every page to be quoted by AI and reports mentions monthly. We baseline the engines first and build outward from the pages.

Embarque defines GEO as getting your brand named when ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Google's AI answer a buyer's question, holds that AI answers lean on pages that rank so SEO and GEO are one job, and builds every page to be quoted, with answer-first sections, fact-checks and senior oversight; its monthly report tracks AI mentions beside traffic, rankings and leads, and its cases include 924,000 AI citations in 90 days for a creative workflow SaaS and 25,000 LLM visits converting at 17 percent for a video tool. Whether a visibility baseline is set before work and which engines are tracked are not published.

Rock the Rankings baselines across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Mode and AI Overviews before work ships, then builds in the GEO Stack order: solution-aware pages first, citations second, problem-aware capture last.

AI assistants strip referrers, so most AI-sourced demos land in your CRM as Direct.

Embarque's monthly report shows traffic, rankings, AI mentions and leads, its plans include revenue-based strategy and tracking with GA4 and Search Console analysis, and its cases report outcomes in signups, MRR and revenue, such as Instatus's MRR up 833 percent and MentorCruise's revenue up 1,600 percent year over year. How leads are attributed to search and AI search when the referrer is stripped, and whether a self-reported source is read beside the CRM, are not published.

Rock the Rankings applies The Two-Witness Rule on every plan: the CRM source and the buyer's own answer are read together and every contact is tiered confirmed, recovered, probable or dark. On one client funnel, 11 CRM-attributed AI leads sat beside 809 self-reported ones, a 73× gap. Where CRM access is restricted, we work from an anonymised export under NDA.

This is where Embarque covers ground we do not, and at a scale we do not run.

Embarque sells programmatic SEO and multilingual SEO alongside its page plans, includes continuous technical fixes in every plan, builds dedicated subfolders with their own strategy, and serves SaaS, marketplaces, job boards, gaming and apps, legal, local businesses and enterprise, with 34-plus case studies published across those categories and clients including Riverside, VEED, Signwell and Mailjet. Its comparison table puts its output at 15 to 40-plus new pages a month against a traditional agency's fixed hours.

Rock the Rankings runs SEO, AI search, content, links and technical for B2B SaaS and tech only; we do not run programmatic or multilingual SEO and we do not serve marketplaces, job boards, gaming, legal or local.

Embarque gives every plan a senior strategist and AI production. We give every engagement the founder and pages from product interviews.

Embarque states that a senior SEO strategist owns your account from strategy to priorities to content quality, that AI agents do the analysis, research and production so the strategist spends time on decisions rather than busywork, that every page is fact-checked against your site and nothing goes live without your approval, and that Starter and Engine run by chat and monthly report with no meetings unless you add strategy calls at $400 each or move to Managed. Whether the founder is involved in delivery is not published.

Rock the Rankings is founder-led through delivery: Founder, Justin Berg runs strategy on every engagement alongside a senior strategist with B2B SaaS category experience, with no account managers in between and Slack and email with same-day replies.