RicketyRoo

Published 2026-09-07 · Updated 2026-09-07

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RicketyRoo is an American Bend-based local search agency selling tailored optimisation and link-building services. It sells custom search retainers through direct discovery calls, with no published package pricing. Its standing appears in the current Public Evidence Score shown in the infobox for round 2026-09-pes1, dated 7 September 2026.

Background

The site presents RicketyRoo Incorporated of Bend, Oregon, founded by Blake Denman in 2009.¹ Directory listings agree on the company name, the Oregon city and the named founder.² No official Oregon corporation record for the company was retrieved in the evidence as of September 2026.¹ A mailing address in Bend is listed, with a second street address in other listings.² The company leadership pages name five senior people across operations, content, search and management.¹

Services

The company sells local search, search consulting and pay-per-click management for American client businesses.³ The local search page promises stated tailored link-building strategies for topical and local relevance.⁴ The consulting service page covers local, franchise, multi-location and software audiences in one place.⁵ No sourcing model for link placements is stated anywhere on the public site as of September 2026.⁴

Pricing

As of September 2026, the company states that it has no published package pricing.⁶ All client engagements start with a discovery call, and directories quote stated minimum budgets.³ No public rate card, per-link unit or checkout route exists for link building as of September 2026.⁴ A third-party profile notes hourly rates, but those figures are not on the site.⁷

Terms and buyer protection

No public terms page for the company's services was found as of September 2026.¹ No refund term was found on the public site pages as of September 2026.³ No replacement cover for links was found on the public site as of September 2026.⁴ No written cancellation policy was found, despite homepage contrast with rival annual lock-in contracts.³ The about page describes a monthly call and task-completion email, not a delivery promise.¹ The review covered the homepage, about page and local SEO service page, with no legal or terms page located.¹³⁴

Reputation

As of September 2026, the Clutch profile shows no reviews and no overall rating.² A dated Wayback capture from May 2025 likewise shows no reviews on the profile.² No matching public Trustpilot profile emerged from a company name search of the platform.⁸ G2 and Google Business review figures could not be read during public evidence gathering.² Scores combine platform ratings by review count, with smoothing described on the methodology page.

Delivery evidence

No live sample placements with visible links were supplied in the evidence as of September 2026.⁴ The named case studies report client revenue, traffic and booking gains for local clients.³ The named JUNK Relief case study reports triple-digit revenue growth with doubled client bookings.⁹ The Hale Trailer study reports a large rise in quote requests for the client.¹⁰ Neither placement addresses nor any stated sourcing model accompany the published site case results.³

Operational footprint

The public LinkedIn profile shows eleven listed staff within an eleven-to-fifty company size range.⁶ The about page names ten people, led by the named founder and two vice-presidents.¹ Contact runs through a public telephone line, an email address and a discovery-call form.¹¹ Monthly reporting runs through a stated call and task-completion email, with no link promise.¹ The office city is Bend, Oregon, with only a private mailing box address published.²

Value for money

No priced basket unit was found, since no per-link or package price is published.⁴ The review checked the local SEO page, directories and third-party profiles for any unit price.⁴²⁷ The methodology page describes the standardised price-basket comparison across guest-post and monthly package units.

Penalties

No public route to approve placement sites before publication was found as of September 2026.⁴ A homepage average-gain client statistic is presented as a past figure, not a guarantee.³ No terms page exists against which a headline promise could be contradicted as of September 2026.³ No evidence was found that placements land on sites controlled by the provider as of September 2026.⁴ Whether review profiles carry alerts could not be established from the unread platform pages.² No product page states any dofollow, nofollow or sponsored default for sold outreach-built links.⁴

Category evidence

Local search has a dedicated service page naming tailored link building within its scope.⁴ The published case studies serve as local samples, though none lists live placement addresses.³ The consulting page names software audiences, while a healthcare case covers a Texas provider.⁵ A dedicated optimisation page sells visibility audits, roadmaps and implementation for AI answer engines as of September 2026.¹² The page names ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini targets, with no public dollar price stated.¹²

Frequently asked questions

What does RicketyRoo sell?

RicketyRoo sells local search optimisation, search consulting and pay-per-click management to American client businesses.³ A guest post means an article placed on a third-party site carrying a link, while link building covers outreach earning such placements.⁴ The local search page promises tailored link-building strategies for topical and local relevance as of September 2026.⁴

How much does RicketyRoo charge for link building?

No public rate card exists, so no per-link or package price can be quoted.⁴ All engagements begin with a discovery call, and directories quote minimum budgets instead of fixed prices.³ A third-party profile notes hourly rates, but those figures do not appear on the company site.⁷

Are RicketyRoo links dofollow, and can buyers approve sites first?

Neither point is stated publicly, so buyers find no written default on either question.⁴ No product page states any dofollow, nofollow or sponsored default for sold outreach-built links.⁴ No public route to approve placement sites before publication was found as of September 2026.⁴

What replacement or refund terms does RicketyRoo offer?

No public terms page exists, so no replacement term or refund term is published.¹ No refund term and no replacement cover for links were found on the public site pages.³⁴ The about page describes a monthly call and task-completion email rather than a delivery promise.¹

Where is RicketyRoo based, and who runs the company?

The company operates from Bend, Oregon, where it lists a mailing address in the city.² Founder Blake Denman started the company in 2009, and leadership pages name five senior people.¹ The public LinkedIn profile shows eleven listed staff within an eleven-to-fifty company size range.⁶

What do public reviews show about RicketyRoo?

Very little is published, because the Clutch profile shows no reviews and no overall rating.² No matching public Trustpilot profile emerged from a company name search of the platform.⁸ Figures from G2 and Google Business could not be read during public evidence gathering.²

How is RicketyRoo scored?

The current Public Evidence Score for the provider appears in the infobox beside the article lead. The methodology page describes how published evidence across the stated criteria forms the single published figure shown beside the lead. Readers comparing providers find the same published method behind each provider figure displayed here.

History

This article was created from the round 2026-09-pes1 public evidence gathered in September 2026. All later changes to the underlying data appear automatically in the rendered revision log.