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The HOTH

thehoth.com · Saint Petersburg, FL, USA

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Category
SEO agencies (B2B) — productized SEO marketplace + managed SEO (SMB and agency white-label; part of Next Net Media)
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Services
Managed SEO, AI visibility ('AI Discover'), link building products (outreach, insertions, platinum links), blog/web content writing, local SEO (citations, reviews), technical SEO, reputation management, press releases, digital PR, PPC
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Pricing
productized per-product store; dollar figures not captured on homepage this pass
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Founded
2010 (own copyright line '2010-2026'; Inc. 5000 2018)
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Team signal
not publicly available on own site
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Named practitioners
  • Marc Hardgrove — CEO (also founder/CEO of parent Next Net Media)
  • Marc Pickren — President
  • George Papadeas — COO
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Case-study claims
  • Aggregate: 200,000+ businesses served, 1,000,000+ backlinks built
  • 4.9/5 average rating across 4,000+ reviews
PROVIDER REPORTEDnumbers are the provider’s own; not independently verified

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All sources accessed 2026-08-31. Spot an error? Submit a correction — reviewed by a human, logged publicly.

  1. https://www.thehoth.com/ (accessed 2026-08-31)
  2. https://www.thehoth.com/blog/inc-5000-list-2018/ (accessed 2026-08-31)
  3. https://www.crunchbase.com/person/marc-hardgrove (accessed 2026-08-31)