About Top10 SEO Company List
An independent research desk on North Hull Street in Montgomery, Alabama, run by John Jones since 2019.
It started with one bad contract
In 2019 a neighbouring business owner in Montgomery asked John Jones to read an SEO retainer she had been asked to sign. It ran to nine pages, promised “first page results”, and quietly locked her into eighteen months with a thirty-day cancellation window she had already missed.
That review turned into a second, then a dozen. Within a year the requests were arriving from outside Alabama, and it became obvious that the problem was not any single agency — it was that buyers had no reliable way to compare vendors. Every “top agencies” list they could find was paid placement wearing a research costume.
So we built the alternative: a published scoring framework, verified client reference calls, and a short list we are willing to defend in public. Today we have reviewed 148 agencies and sent more than two thousand shortlists to owners across the United States.
A small team, deliberately
John Jones
Owner & principal analyst
Twelve years in search marketing before moving to the research side. Runs vendor scoring, contract reviews and every reference call that matters.
Research desk
Two analysts & a technical reviewer
Independent scoring, crawl analysis and report grading. Two analysts score each vendor separately before reconciling.
Client support
Enquiries & scheduling
Answers every email and call during business hours, and will tell you honestly if we are not the right desk for your question.
Five positions we hold publicly
Rankings are not a product you can buy
Any list that sells position is advertising. We publish our weighting so you can argue with our conclusions instead of guessing at our motives.
Guarantees are a warning sign
No agency controls a search engine. A promised position, a promised traffic figure, or a promised timeline is either ignorance or a sales tactic.
Bing matters more than people admit
Microsoft's search network drives real, high-intent commercial traffic in the U.S. Vendors who ignore Bing Webmaster Tools are leaving measurable revenue behind.
Sometimes the answer is “don't hire anyone”
If your site cannot convert the traffic it already has, an SEO retainer buys you a more expensive version of the same problem. We say so.
Small and accountable beats large and vague
We stay small so the person who scored a vendor is the person who picks up the phone when you ask about them.
Corrections belong in public
When we get something wrong, we amend the page and note what changed. Quietly editing history would make the archive worthless.
Company details
| Trading name | Top10 SEO Company List |
|---|---|
| Owner | John Jones |
| Registered office | 436 North Hull Street, Montgomery, Alabama 36104, USA |
| Telephone | +1 704 499 9678 |
| Business email | support@top10seocompanylist.com |
| Website | https://top10seocompanylist.com |
| Business hours | Monday to Friday, 9:00–18:00 Central Time |
| Operating since | 2019 |
| Service area | United States (remote), with in-person meetings in the Montgomery area |
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