Honest comparison of Ottawa SEO Inc. and Siege Media — track record, specialization, pricing, and contract terms. Built for evaluators making a real decision.
**Choose Siege Media if:** content-marketing-led SEO, strong link-acquisition through editorial content.
**Choose Ottawa SEO Inc. if:** you want a founder-led engagement with twelve years of continuous operating history across twenty verticals, transparent month-to-month pricing, and direct access to the decision-maker on every call.
**Siege Media** — based in San Diego, founded 2012, ~80 staff. Strengths: content-marketing-led SEO, strong link-acquisition through editorial content. Considerations: content-heavy positioning fits SaaS and B2B better than local-services or transactional SMB.
**Ottawa SEO Inc.** — based in Ottawa, Canada, founded 2014 (twelve continuous years of operation), founder-led by Martin Vassilev with a small specialist contractor network. Manages a 500+ domain portfolio across Canadian and US markets that produces real-time visibility into Google algorithm changes.
Twelve years of operating across both content-led SEO (for SaaS, professional services) AND transactional/local SEO (home services, healthcare, retail) — not single-discipline.
Siege Media typically operates on agency-tier pricing with quarterly or annual minimums depending on engagement scope. Ottawa SEO Inc. operates on month-to-month terms — no annual minimums, no setup fees, and no termination penalty. Engagement floor is $1,200/month for solo practitioners and scales to enterprise without the agency-overhead premium. Use the Ottawa SEO Cost Calculator for a defensible monthly range for your specific industry and goal.
Content-marketing-led SEO, strong link-acquisition through editorial content. If those capabilities are the primary decision criteria for your engagement, Siege Media is a credible choice. We'd rather you choose them and succeed than choose us and find we weren't the right fit.
If you're evaluating Ottawa SEO Inc. against Siege Media, the most useful filters are: (1) Do you want founder-led delivery or agency-team delivery? (2) Are you comfortable with month-to-month or do you require annual contracts? (3) Does your vertical require a generalist or a specialist? (4) What's your realistic monthly budget? Use the cost calculator for budget anchoring. Then book a free 30-minute strategy call — we'll tell you honestly if we're the right fit.
No. Siege Media is a credible agency. The only meaningful question is whether their operating model fits your needs better than ours.
For SEO, yes — across technical, on-page, content, and link-acquisition. For broader services beyond SEO, evaluate scope-by-scope.
Run our free 15-point audit and request the same from Siege Media. The depth of the audit is the most predictive single signal of how the engagement will go.