Ignite Visibility
San Diego performance marketing agency founded in 2013, selling SEO, local SEO, GEO and paid media, with 175 Clutch reviews.
Proofs
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Case studies
Named, public, with a stated result. An unnamed client story does not count.
Founders
- CEO of Ignite Visibility from 2013 to January 2026
- Instructor in web analytics, SEO and paid media at UC San Diego, 2010 to 2018
- Author of Digital Influencer (2016), The Forecaster Method (2019) and Advolution (2022)
- Search Engine Land Search Marketer of the Year, 2017
What they do
- Services
- GEO · SEO · Local SEO · Content SEO · Digital PR · CRO
- Industries
- Local businesses · Healthcare
- Regions served
- US
- Monthly budget
- Under $2k/mo
- Team size
- 200+
- Founded
- 2013
- Address
- 4370 La Jolla Village Drive, Suite 320, San Diego, California 92122
- Pricing
- On request
About
Ignite Visibility is a San Diego performance marketing agency founded in 2013 by John Lincoln and Krish Coughran. It has grown into a large multichannel shop with offices in Irvine, New York and Orlando, a workforce it puts above 700 people, and private equity backing from Mountaingate Capital since 2023. Generative engine optimization sits in its earned media group next to SEO, local SEO and digital PR, while paid media, content, web and CRO make up the rest of the offer. A large share of its published work is for multi-location franchise brands.
The review record is the strongest part of the profile. Clutch shows 4.8 from 175 reviews, a $1,000 minimum project and hourly rates of $100 to $149. Co-founder John Lincoln, who moved from CEO to executive chairman in January 2026, has written three marketing books, taught SEO at UC San Diego and was named Search Engine Land's Search Marketer of the Year in 2017. The agency lists a 2025 OMMA Award for a campaign tied to AI search visibility.
The case study library is large but almost entirely anonymous: clients appear as a home services franchise or a healthcare network. Orangetheory Fitness is the only named client we could confirm, with organic traffic up 25% after a 1,500 location site rebuild. There is no public pricing and no dedicated GEO service page, and we could not find a LinkedIn profile for co-founder Krish Coughran.
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