Rock the Rankings vs. Grow and Convert

Both agencies publish a starting price. Only one publishes the ladder and the terms.

Grow and Convert's full-service SEO and GEO management starts at $10,000 a month, stated on its service page beside the intake form; tiers above that, what the starting package includes, contract length and notice are not published, and link building, AI citation outreach, PPC and technical SEO are also offered as separate services.

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.

Grow and Convert publishes what to expect and when. We publish a number and hold ourselves to it.

Grow and Convert sets expectations in its FAQ: first-page rankings in three to six months, qualified leads possible in the first month if articles rank quickly or are promoted, and conversion tracking set up from day one; its benchmark is that bottom-funnel keywords convert at 4 to 5 percent or more against under 1 percent for top-of-funnel content, and its Toro TMS case reports content-driven pipeline moving from 5 to 25 percent of revenue in eighteen months. It publishes no pre-contract forecast and no 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.

Both agencies hold that bottom-funnel pages built for Google are the pages AI cites. Grow and Convert has published the research; we have the sequence.

Grow and Convert's position is that LLMs like ChatGPT and Perplexity search Google to recommend products, so content ranking for bottom-funnel keywords gets cited naturally; it has published an analysis of 400 keywords on the link between Google rankings and LLM visibility, runs a Prioritized GEO framework that maps the angles a buyer might prompt within a category, tracks AI visibility at topic level with its own Traqer AI tool, and runs AI citation outreach to the articles and sites, Reddit included, that ChatGPT and Claude cite. Its Level AI case reports visibility across 100 buying-intent prompts.

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.

Both agencies report on attributable leads rather than traffic. The difference is what happens to the leads the dashboard cannot attribute.

Grow and Convert says it does not bury clients in traffic reports: it tracks which articles drive demo requests, which keywords convert to trials and which content influences closed deals, and its measurement service sets up GA4, HubSpot and dashboards to show which channels, sources and pages drive pipeline; an analytics expert is part of every team. How AI-sourced demos that arrive without a referrer are reconciled is 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 Grow and Convert covers ground we do not.

Beyond content, SEO and GEO, Grow and Convert runs paid search as a named service, sets up marketing analytics including GA4 and HubSpot, provides design and development resources on every engagement, and has built two products: Traqer AI for AI visibility tracking and WaveWriter AI for content production. It also sells a content and SEO course and publishes the research that underpins its frameworks.

Rock the Rankings runs SEO, AI search, content, links and technical only; we do not run paid search, build analytics stacks, provide design or dev, or ship software.

Grow and Convert publishes the shape of the team you get. We publish who leads it.

Grow and Convert describes the engagement as an extension of your marketing team: an SEO and GEO strategist, a writer, an analytics expert, a technical SEO, plus design and development resources, all in your Slack working alongside your team, with writers who interview your product managers, sales and customer success people before producing anything; a client quote says the writer became better at writing about the industry than the founder. Whether the agency's founders are 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.