People-powered Innovation

Dependable search strategies that drive results.

Victorious is a values-driven search agency dedicated to empowering our customers with customized SEO, Content, and Web services.

Founded in 2013

A singular focus on search creates results that speak for themselves.

13
Years of search-only focus
5x
Search Agency of the Year
1,050
Brands served
15.3B
Search impressions

Aggregate data across Victorious client campaigns - Updated quarterly

WHAT SETS US APART

We're deliberate in every aspect of our culture.

Victorious is made up of talented, driven, and compassionate people. We empower them to deliver thoughtful search strategies without micromanagement or policy overkill.

At the heart of our business is an inherent belief that if we work together, treat one another with respect, and act in the best interest of our customers and team, we’ll succeed at being the best search agency in the world.

Our culture is definitive and is the consistent through-line in everything we do. It’s the foundation of our collaborative partnerships and the key to our success and yours.

The Pros Behind the Process

Each Victorious team member has a deep understanding of SEO principles, so everyone you interact with is a subject matter expert.

Executive Team

Our executive team sets company strategy and vision, driving execution to deliver measurable business value for our clients.

Michael Transon
CEO

Laurel Stewart
COO

Dave Burton
CFO

Services

Victorious service teams specialize in search-first marketing, combining SEO, content, web development, and strategic account management to help clients outperform in organic search.

Alona Bergner
Senior SEO Strategist

Thanh Duong
Technical SEO Director

Jason White
Director of Search

Hannah Hammer
Senior SEO Strategist

Lesli White
Senior Content Strategist

Thomas Short
Content Strategist

Shelby Davis
Senior Content Strategist

Michele Smoly
Account Management Lead

Andy Sawyer
Director of Technology

Cal Gruening
Senior Technical SEO Strategist

Baylee Maina
Account Manager

Heather Frantz
Technical SEO Strategist

Parker Ray
Senior Account Manager

Sean Mattheisen
Senior SEO Strategist

Lisa Ringelstetter
VP of Client Strategy & Delivery

Beth Hodgell
Content Strategist

Jenny Hart
Content Strategy Lead

Lang Ploszek
Content Strategy Lead

Brittani Rable
Copywriting Manager

Alyssa Bailey
SEO Strategist

Katie Flannery
Senior Account Manager

Cody Beckius
Content Strategist

Jake Amberg
Senior SEO Strategist

Paul Boynton
Content Strategist

Tim Hein
Web Development Lead

Calleigh Sheehan
Senior SEO Strategist

Technology

The architects behind our internal tools and customer-facing dashboards that elevate service delivery and accelerate process improvement.

Shailyn Moore
Lead Software Engineer

Sid Brown
Software Engineer

Chad Dustin
Head of Engineering

Enablement

Enablement teams keep our business running smoothly and fuel our ability to attract, support, and grow with world-class partners.

Sabrina Armstrong
Director of Sales

Tania Brown
Content Marketing Manager

Casey Joens
Director of People Operations

Nicole Young
Controller

Jill Maldonado
Director of Brand Growth

Our Story

The evolution of search excellence.

Victorious has focused on the power of search for over a decade.

Victorious began in the early 2010s as one of the many fresh-faced agencies entering the new inbound marketing scene. We spent the next several years building a full-service digital marketing agency with SEO as a supportive pillar to a larger set of services.

But in 2016, we made a hard pivot to focus on SEO alone.

Why SEO?

As a full-service agency, we had glimpsed the unrealized potential of organic search. Shifting our focus to innovations in search optimization offered an opportunity to rewrite the digital marketing narrative.

By focusing on mastering one craft, we could channel all our resources into creating SEO results that would transcend the scattershot efforts of general agencies.

It was a defining moment — a choice between sticking to a well-trodden path or daring to build something exceptional, regardless of the risks.

We chose the latter.

SEO-Only Success

In 2018, only two years after becoming an SEO-only agency, we garnered two Global SEO Agency of the Year awards and one US SEO Agency of the Year win. Time and again, panels of industry experts determined that the results we generate for our customers are truly world-class.

We’ve built on that momentum to innovate and integrate data-backed SEO services into a strategic methodology with the power to generate compounding success for our customers.

Our service framework has redefined the possibilities for search-driven marketing gains.

As a result, in 2022, industry experts at the US Search Awards recognized Victorious as the Best Large Agency of the Year — the first time an SEO-only agency had captured the title.

Then, in 2023, we brought home two more Best SEO Agency awards, making us the most highly awarded search agency in the industry.

Defining a Search-First Strategy

These accolades fuel our drive to help our customers achieve even more outstanding results in search.

By putting search first in our customers’ marketing strategies, we’ve generated undeniable results across various verticals and in every market to help businesses thrive despite their unique challenges, a global pandemic, and a changing economic landscape.

But we’re not done yet.

The SEO landscape is different today than it was a decade ago. Keeping search at the center of it all, we’re still expanding our digital marketing services to support our customers and capture new search potential.

What powers our relentless drive to do better and be better?

Our values. They’re the foundation of our success and the never-changing reminder of who we are and why we’re here.

We hope they’ll be the foundation of your success, too.

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Driven by passion, defined by growth.

We pride ourselves on living out our values every single day and putting our customers first.

Give a Shit

We care about our work and each other, giving our best every day.

Empower One Another

We uphold each other’s priorities as high as our own.

People First

We support the people who help our business thrive.

Process Perfection

We’re driven to become the best version of ourselves.

Radical Integrity

We do the right thing, even when it’s tough.

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