For more than a decade, UpCity’s mission has been—and continues to be—to help businesses find B2B service providers they can trust. The UpCity Recommendability Rating was developed to determine a service provider’s credibility and recommendability, giving UpCity the confidence to recommend them to the more than 1.5 million businesses that visit their site.
Each year, UpCity analyzes and scores more than 70,000 service providers based on their UpCity Recommendability Rating and acknowledges the top national and local providers with an UpCity Excellence Award. The results are in, and we won!
We are ecstatic to announce that the Firestarter Search Engine Optimization team has been recognized as one of the top B2B service providers of 2021 in both the U.S. and Denver area by UpCity!
Firestarter Search Engine Optimization is a SEO firm located in Denver. Instead of being a jack of all trades and a master of none, Firestarter specializes in SEO. What separates us is our focus and dedication to SEO. Our goal is building our clients business. We become their partners and seek to achieve the results and goals to build their businesses.


Mark Tepper, SVP of Sales & Customer Success of UpCity, had this to say about Firestarter Search Engine Optimization:
“Firestarter Search Engine Optimization has taken the mantra ‘a jack of all trades’’ and flipped it on its head. They understand that if you want an expert in SEO, you go to a company that specializes in SEO. For this reason, it is no surprise they have achieved UpCity’s Excellence Award.”
–Mark Tepper, SVP of Sales & Customer Success
This recognition has been driven in large part by our 5-star review rating on UpCity. Here are a few of our favorite pieces of feedback we’ve received from our incredible customers:
“Working with Skyler and Firestarter SEO is just a fun experience. Being able to sit down and view your business from the consumer’s perspective is not only educational, but very valuable to your bottom line. Seeing what is going on behind the scenes of Google is a huge advantage when trying to gain leverage in your favor. I recommend Firestarter SEO to seasoned and new start-up businesses. Thank you Firestarter SEO!”
–Eric Avery, Firestarter Search Engine Optimization Customer
“Kyle Carney and his team at Firestarter SEO were very engaging in the overall learning component and asked me and my team to a free open meeting to see first hand the results that companies can receive using SEO. Their pricing is very reasonable, customer service above and beyond, and the overall package they put together to deliver top of the Google search results are unmatched! Call Firestarter to learn more if you are wanting to improve your overall website presence!”
–Barbara L. Pemble, MS, SHRM-CP, Firestarter Search Engine Optimization Customer
We couldn’t be more proud to receive this award and want to thank the UpCity team for the honor. However, we would not be where we are today without our customers. Thank you to our customers who have chosen us for their SEO needs throughout the years. Firestarter Engine Optimization looks forward to continuing our mutual success.