An agency whose white-hat claim is verifiable.
Grove SEO Agency runs SEO programs for B2B service businesses under an explicit white-hat methodology constraint. The differentiator is structural rather than aspirational: vendor criteria are documented, the anti-tactics list is public, and methodology claims are grounded in Google's published ranking systems rather than in pitch-deck adjectives.
Methodology commitments
The public anti-tactics list on the home page is the operational contract. Every commitment ties to a specific algorithmic or manual-action surface — Penguin link-spam scoring, the Helpful Content System site-wide classifier, the March 2024 spam-policy update, the Reviews System author-entity weighting. The reason the list is public is the same reason it's specific: a generic "we're ethical" claim from an agency is unfalsifiable, and unfalsifiable claims function as marketing copy rather than as engagement contracts.
Vendor criteria for link acquisition are similarly documented and verifiable. Domain Rating threshold, organic-traffic floor, topical relevance to the buyer page, outbound-link-count ceiling per placement, spam-score discipline. Every link placement Grove acquires is auditable against the criteria, on request.
Why sustainability over spikes
The pitch for "12,000% traffic growth in 30 days" is the exact unnatural-velocity pattern Google's spam classifiers are designed to detect. Short-term link-velocity spikes from low-quality sources reverse out of rankings within 12 to 18 months — and when they reverse, the domain's underlying reputation typically takes the hit alongside. The work Grove ships is meant to survive the next algorithm update, not to decorate a screenshot at the end of the engagement quarter.
Reporting tracks the signals that compound: referring-domain velocity from vetted vendors, branded-search impression growth, Knowledge Graph entity-confidence signals, indexation health, position changes on the commercial-intent keywords that matter to the buyer page rather than on the long-tail terms that are easy to surface in a deck.
Who runs Grove
Founded by Yan Dobromyslov, who has delivered SEO engagements across multiple B2B service verticals — legal, medical, real estate, professional services, wellness — over the years preceding Grove. The methodology Grove now runs at agency scale is the same one those engagements converged on: vendor relationships rather than scraped placements, expert review rather than scaled content, mechanism-grounded recovery rather than blanket disavow.
How we engage
Engagements run as monthly retainers shaped to the surface where the work is needed. A client with thin link velocity and adequate on-page authority gets a link-acquisition-weighted program. A client with strong link metrics but weak brand-entity signals gets a brand-mention and Knowledge Graph program. A client recovering from a manual action or algorithmic demotion gets a remediation engagement (diagnosis, then disavow workflow where indicated, then careful rebuild).
We do not run mass outreach campaigns, syndicated content blasts, or PBN-flavored work. The reasons are documented in the anti-tactics list on the home page. The short version: those tactics are how engagements lose more than they ever gained, and the loss usually arrives 12 to 18 months after the agency has been paid.
Get in touch
Email [email protected] with your domain, the work you need, and any prior SEO history relevant to the engagement (penalties, prior agency tactics, recovery attempts). We respond inside one business day with a scope outline and a price band.