Ignite Digital

They have friendly staff if you don't realize you are being ripped off. I really enjoyed talking with their staff

I would love it if they actually did the job they agreed to do not just claim to do it. Then ask for more money to let you out of the contract when they get caught

My company hired Ignite Digital in August of 2020. We were very excited to work with what LOOKED to be a great company. We agreed to a 1 year contract for link building and SEO. I asked them to send me a list of the backlinks they posted every month and they agreed. September was our first full service month and they sent us a list of 4 back links. We thought that given the silly amount of money we were paying this was a small amount but they assured us they knew what they were doing and things would pick up. After 6 months of work, our domain authority had only gone up 2 points and we got suspicious. I then asked Ignite Digital for a full list of backlinks they had created. I got nothing from them for almost a week. At this point I setup an SEMRush account and did a full scan of our site only to find that only 3 of the backlinks we had came from Ignite Digital. I then confronted Ignite Digital and they provided a list of 16 backlinks they had supposedly setup over the life of our contract. When I went and checked these back links all but 3 of them had been created in the last week since I had asked them for the full list (I have screen shots of all of them). I then went back to Ignite Digital and demanded a refund because after paying them almost 10k they obviously had not fulfilled their end of the contract. Their response was "Ignite Digital has never and will not give a refund. But if you pay us for this month we will let you out of the contract". To sum it up. Do not ever go into business with this company and if you do. Don't make the same mistake I did, verify everything they claim they did. P.S. I have proof to backup all my claims and will happily provide it.

This was a digital marketing company offering web design, content and search marketing, reputation management and search engine optimization services which I've contacted recently to learn more about their help with our SEO campaign for a retail ecommerce site focusing on national and local keywords based in Canada. They are listed in the Better Business Bureau with no complaints so this is great to see especially in this industry know for its shady tactics. They utilize quite an extensive technology stack in terms of advertising, analytics platforms as well as social media integrated so it's great to see current technologies and they are Google Partner certified as well which helps vouch for their credibility as well up front. They have several client with recognizable brands here in Canada which I appreciated. I like their search engine optimization process and methodology. It's not the most in depth that I saw during this research period but it hit on all of the basic points I was looking to see. They maintain an active blog with some great current relevant information which I like to see. Not only to learn from but as an indicator that they are staying on the leading edge of their industry knowledge which is constantly changing. Their SEO Woorank score was slightly lower than the average at seventy during my research though it was still respectable and indicated they follow most best practices in this regard. The average being about seventy five, the lowest was eighteen from a company selling search engine optimization and the highest at ninety to give you a better idea.

There is not much proof with case studies featuring marketing campaign key performance metrics which from a prospects point of view is helpful certainly to show previous verifiable client success stories. Though I acknowledge some companies pass this information along after you contact them. This is a professional company in every regard though I do not believe they followed up our request for more information about their services. Unless they left one of the three voicemails I accidentally deleted around this time as I was learning Android on my new smartphone and if so I apologize. But there was nothing in my inbox to indicate any response from them that I could find. When I circled back around to their website again I noted they only work with medium to big brands so that's my mistake for contacting them at all I suppose because we are a start up. Though if I were a partner of this company I believe it would be in my best interest to say thanks but no thanks for now for this reason.

We have tremendous growth potential and will be a midsize business before too long. If they had reached out to connect it may have increased the possibility that I recall their business when it is time for this step in my opinion. Nonetheless, according to my presales criteria they were a very sound company which I believe would fulfill the services ordered to make your company more successful.