SimpleTiger vs. Siege Media vs. Rock the Rankings

The honest comparison: SimpleTiger is the better pick if flexibility matters more than a published number. Month to month with 30 days' notice is the same openness we run on, and the 5-percent-of-revenue sizing tells you roughly where you will land before the call. Siege Media is the better pick if you are an enterprise buyer who expects a custom proposal and already plans on a 12-month program; its scale is built for that.

Rock the Rankings is the better pick if you want the number before the call and a monthly plan behind it. Prices are published, there is no onboarding fee, and the day-90 review is against a forecast you saw before signing. Both run monthly with no minimum; the difference is that our day-90 review is against a number you saw before signing.

The honest comparison: SimpleTiger is the better pick if you want targets stated as targets and value a partner that says so plainly; its position that no agency can promise AI placement is accurate, and its reporting is built to show progress against targets continuously. Siege Media is the better pick if a 12-month roadmap with quarterly reviews, built by a team that has published its own GEO research, is the kind of commitment your board recognises.

Rock the Rankings is the better pick if the board wants a number someone will be held to. The conservative case is what we are judged against. The tradeoff is that the forecast is only as good as your data; without CRM exports we fall back to benchmarks and the conservative case gets more conservative.

The honest comparison: Siege Media is the better pick if your category is decided on third-party surfaces: editorial roundups, Reddit threads, affiliate reviews. Its program works all of them, backed by its own research on where AI gets buying advice, and its Zendesk and Zapier cases report 98 and 96 percent LLM visibility. SimpleTiger is the better pick if you want the widest engine coverage tracked, Grok included, with paid search running alongside to capture the demand AI answers create.

Rock the Rankings is the better pick if you want the program sequenced from your own pages outward and read against a number you saw before signing. The tradeoff is surface coverage: we do not run Reddit, affiliate or paid programs, and our starting citation volume is well below Siege's portfolio scale.

The honest comparison: SimpleTiger is the better pick if you want attribution infrastructure, not just a method: a live dashboard wired to the CRM, multi-touch models, and a RevOps service to build it. A Head of Growth who wants to allocate budget across organic, AI, paid and email from one view will get that here. Siege Media is the better pick if your question is category presence rather than demo count; its stack is built to show share of voice and citation growth alongside revenue.

Rock the Rankings is the better pick if your CRM is already misfiling AI-sourced demos as Direct and you want each contact reconciled against the buyer's own answer. The tradeoff is cadence and tooling: the reconciliation is monthly and done by a person, and there is no live dashboard.

The honest comparison: SimpleTiger is the better pick if you want one agency for organic and paid. Running SEO, AEO and PPC from the same keyword data is its stated model, and for a team that cannot manage two vendors it removes a seam. Siege Media is the better pick if volume and surface coverage are the constraint: no one else on this page produces content, coverage and refreshes at that scale, or runs affiliate and Reddit as named programs.

Rock the Rankings is the better pick if you want a search-only program that starts focused and scales with results. The tradeoff is exactly what the row says: we work fewer channels, start at lower volume and scale as the forecast proves out, and if you need paid or design you will need a second partner.

The honest comparison: SimpleTiger is the better pick if you want a defined account structure with always-on access: a named account manager, 24/7 Slack and a portal where the work is visible. Siege Media is the better pick if you want depth of bench; eighty named people, dedicated client services and specialist writers mean the team can absorb scope changes a small agency cannot.

Rock the Rankings is the better pick if what burned you last time was the hand-off. The person on the first call is the person running the account, and that does not change at month three. The tradeoff is selectivity: a founder-run book has fewer seats, so we take on fewer clients and go deeper on each.