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Rankings Are Vanity.
Revenue Is Sanity.

I will tell you exactly what’s wrong with your website. Then I’ll fix it.

The SEO Savant has thirty years in search. No packages, no menus, no guessing. A full diagnosis first – then the work your site actually needs, in the order it needs it.

Free. The full report within one business day. No call, no card.

A #1 ranking that doesn’t convert is an expensive trophy. I’ve been doing this since 1996 — long enough to know the difference.

Yishai Koln, The SEO Savant

Free report

See what AI says about you.

What ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini say when someone in your town asks who to call, plus your website and Google profile, scored. In your inbox within one business day.

Get my free report

Revenue Audit · $3,500

Know what every leak costs you.

Your site, your map listing and your keywords, read by hand. Every gap priced in lost leads and dollars, with a 90-day plan in the order that pays. Fixed price. Two weeks.

See the Revenue Audit

Revenue first. Rankings last. Always.

Every report I write starts with what you earned, not where you ranked. If a #1 position isn’t putting money in your account, I’ll say so — even when it’s a position I got you.

Three reports · one is free

The machine’s read is free.
Mine costs money.

Three reports, in the order you’d buy them. Whatever you pay at one step comes off the next.

00 · Start here

The Scan

FreeNo card · no call · one business day

The engine’s read of your website, your Google profile and what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini say when someone in your town asks who to call. Eight areas, ranked, in your inbox within one business day.

What’s in it

  • 8 areas, ranked
  • Competitors named
  • Maths shown
  • 1 business day
14¢
What it costs me to run

Sample pages. Mesa Valley Air and every figure shown are illustrative.

Chosen by over 1300 businesses

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How I work

Before you sign. Two weeks.
Days 1–90. Every month after.

Every price on the page, no discovery call, three clients at a time. Here's the order things happen in, what you hand over at each step, and the three points where the decision is yours.

Before you sign

The Scan. Free.

Two minutes to request, the full report within one business day. Eight areas: your website, your Google Business Profile and the four AI assistants. If SEO is the wrong tool for your problem, the report says so.

01The request02Eight areas03Competitors named04The report05Wrong tool, says so

You hand overYour website, your business name and an email. Add what a customer is worth and your close rate if you want the dollar figures built on your numbers.Two minutes. No call.

◆ Decision 1 of 3

Buy the audit, or don't. The report is yours either way. If you want my read before spending real money, the Second Opinion ($495, 48 hours, comes off the audit in full) is the link at the end of it.

Two weeks

The Revenue Audit. $3,500.

The clock starts at analytics access. A priority list with a dollar figure on every item, a baseline, a 90-day plan, and an hour-long walkthrough. Half comes off month one of the Engagement if you start inside 60 days.

01Access02Baseline03Priced priority list0490-day plan05The walkthrough

You hand overAnalytics and Search Console access, and whatever you have on calls and booked jobs.The clock doesn't start until I can see your data. Access delays are the only thing that moves the date.

◆ Decision 2 of 3

Do it yourself, take it elsewhere (I'll tell you who's good), or hire me. Start the Engagement inside sixty days and half the audit fee, $1,750, comes off your first month.

Days 1 – 90

The Engagement. $6,000 a month.

Foundations first: tracking, technical, the intent map for your money queries. Three seats, email only, one business day reply. Day 90 is a decision point, not a renewal.

01Tracking first02Technical03The intent map04What you'll see05What you won't yet

You hand overCall-tracking access, or a yes to installing it. CMS access or a named developer. A decision when something needs your sign-off.The work stalls without these; the most common reason an engagement underperforms is access that took six weeks to arrive.

◆ Decision 3 of 3

Day 90. Stay month to month, or leave with the plan and the baseline. SEO doesn't prove itself in three weeks, but if I haven't earned month four, you should go.

Every month after

One call. One report. One folder.

Reported in calls and revenue, not rankings. Re-diagnosis every quarter. Results usually show in months four to eight, and the report says which is which.

01One call02One report03One folder04Quarterly re-diagnosis05Months four to eight

You hand overForty-five minutes on the same date each month, and a decision when the report asks for one.Email answered within one business day, both directions.

Beside the rows, not a step

The Watch. $249/mo. Your Scan re-run every four weeks, and one email naming what moved since last time. Monitoring, not diagnosis, so it credits toward nothing. Cancel any time.

Four rules, after thirty years

01

Rankings are vanity. Revenue is sanity.

02

Diagnosis before prescription.

03

Most of it doesn't matter.

04

Say the uncomfortable thing.

Find the leaks.
Keep the revenue.

The Revenue Audit reads your website, your map listing and your keywords by hand, and puts a dollar figure on every leak. Two weeks, $3,500, and a 90-day plan in the order that pays.

Start the Revenue Audit

What I do

Everything I do points at
one number.

SEO, design and conversion aren't sold as separate packages here. The Revenue Audit decides which of them your site needs, and in what order. Then I do that work, or hand you the plan.

01 · Revenue first

Conversion optimization

Calls · forms · bookings

The traffic you already have that isn't turning into anything is the fastest money on the table. Numbers you can't tap, forms nobody finishes on a phone, booking widgets that render blank. I find them and fix them first.

See what the audit checks

02 · The path to the money

Sales funnel design

Search → page → enquiry → booked job

Every step between the search and the sale, laid out and measured: where people land, what they're asked to do, how fast you answer, and where they leave. Built around how your customers actually buy, which for most home-service companies is a phone call, not a form.

How I work

03 · The last page before the money

UX/UI design

Mobile first · one tap to call

Can a homeowner with a broken AC reach you in one tap? Can a stranger tell in five seconds what you do, where, and why you? Interfaces designed for the phone your emergency customers are holding, tested by hand rather than by a crawler.

Start with the free Scan

04 · Built to close

Web design

A page for every service and city

Fewer pages, engineered to rank and convert. Every service and every city you work in gets a page worth landing on, with your name, address, phone and reviews where Google and the AI assistants can read them. Rebuilds and migrations are quoted on their own.

Send me the URL

05 · Since 1996

SEO

Technical · local · authority

Thirty years of it. Technical foundation, site architecture, content, links, your Google Business Profile and the map pack. Diagnosed first, then done in the order that pays, and re-diagnosed every quarter because the constraint moves.

Book the Revenue Audit

06 · The new front door

AI answer visibility

ChatGPT · Claude · Perplexity · Gemini

Who the assistants name when someone in your town asks who to call, and why it isn't you. A named owner, a published address, real review counts, question-and-answer content: the facts a model can confirm and repeat. I check all four, with screenshots.

See what the assistants say

Where the work has been ( 1996 → 2026 )

  • Retail
  • Entertainment
  • Hospitality
  • Fortune 500
  • Las Vegas gaming
  • Automotive dealer network
  • National home services
  • Multi-location HVAC
  • E-commerce
  • Plumbing
  • Roofing
  • Legal
  • Phoenix
  • Mesa
  • Chandler
  • Gilbert
  • Scottsdale
  • Tempe
  • Glendale
  • Peoria
  • Tucson

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Find every leak. Price it.
Fix what pays.

  • Revenue left on the table

    One number for what the leaks cost you

    The Revenue Audit summary: $14.1K a month left on the table, $169,740 a year
  • Money leaks

    Every leak, ranked by what it costs

    Where the money leaks: five leaks totalling $14,145 a month
  • Map pack

    See who takes the calls on Google Maps

    Map pack ranking: three competitors in the top three, Mesa Valley Air seventh
  • Calls from search

    Your calls against the leader’s

    Calls from search over 12 months: Mesa Valley Air down 12%, Competitor A up 81%
  • Keywords that pay

    The searches that are worth money to you

    Keywords that pay: five searches with rank, leader and monthly value
  • AI answers

    What the AI assistants say about you

    AI answers: named in 1 of 12 answers, Competitor A in 10 of 12
  • 90-day plan

    Revenue recovered, month by month

    90-day recovery plan: $2,760, $6,900 and $11,040 recovered by month
  • The fix list

    Every fix, in the order that pays

    The fix list: six fixes by week, each with its monthly value

Sample report. Mesa Valley Air, its competitors and every figure shown are illustrative.

Clients can’t stop talkingabout The SEO Savant

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Great results, and SEO perfection! Thank you!

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Dale Young
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You always make us shine! We are fortunate to have found you.

Lisa Chougui
Lisa Chogui Owner, Sonoran Eye Design(16 hours ago)
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Such a success! Thanks a bunch!

Linda Frame
Linda Frame, Owner, Frame Designs1:12 PM

The numbers are up, and sales are booming.

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Brad Miller, RS Entertainment(3 days ago)
to me

Greate service, honest bloke.

Robert Hayden
Bob Hayden, AOF11:31 AM

It's a website that makes me money and that's what I need.

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I really enjoy the new site and the artwork.

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Bruce Gunacti, Owner, Cool Nerds Marketing2:19 PM

Stellar work!

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Karen Olson, Owner, Caritas Healing(14 hours ago)
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I enjoy the new design, this is sure to help and bring greater traffic to my site.

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Yishai! Excellent work! Thank you so much.

What I do differently

I look first.

Every engagement starts the same way: I take your website apart.

Not a PDF from a crawler with 400 warnings sorted by color. I mean I go through it the way I’ve gone through websites since 1996 — architecture, indexation, content, links, local presence, competitors, conversion, and now how you show up when someone asks an AI instead of a search engine.

Then I hand you a document that says, in order: here is what’s costing you money, here is why, here’s my estimate of what it’s worth to fix, and here’s what I’d do first.

You own that document. If you take it to another agency, or hand it to your nephew, or do it yourself — that’s fine. It’s yours. I’d rather you make an informed decision to hire someone else than an uninformed one to hire me.

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Common questions · by product ( 37 )

Every question,
next to its price.

Straight answers about each of the five things I sell. If yours isn't here, email hello@theseosavant.com and I'll answer it myself, within one business day.

00 · Start here — The Scan Free

Free · two minutes to request · the full report within one business day

Your website, your Google Business Profile, and what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini say when someone in your town asks who to call. Eight areas, from whether a homeowner can reach you in one tap to whether Google can read your pages. Every finding is ranked by severity, your competitors are named, and the worst gaps get a monthly dollar range.

No. It costs me about fourteen cents to run, so I give the whole report away. It's a machine's read of your business from the outside, and everything the machine found is in it. What it isn't is my judgment. That's the Second Opinion, and it's priced separately so the free thing can stay free.

Two numbers you give me when you request it: what a customer is worth to you, and roughly how many enquiries turn into jobs. The report shows the maths, so you can check it. Skip the numbers and the figures are built on an estimate instead of on your business.

Two minutes to request. The full report is in your inbox within one business day. No call, no card, no scheduling link.

You get one follow-up email from me, then nothing unless you ask. Fix it yourself, hand it to your web person, or have me read it with you: the Second Opinion link sits at the end of every report, already tied to it. Your details are never sold or shared.

The Scan works for any home-service company in the US: HVAC, plumbing, roofing and the trades around them. If your customers find you on Google, the map pack and, more and more, ChatGPT, it applies. My market research runs deepest in Arizona and the Southwest.

Most people don't, and that's fine. The Scan tells you where to look. It can't tell you which of the fourteen things it flagged is the one taking money out of your business. That takes a person, and that's what the Second Opinion and the Revenue Audit are for.

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Case studies and teardowns from thirty years in search. Every number on these cards is real. The client names are left out on purpose.

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Pricing

Every price, on the page.

Start with the free report. Pay once for a diagnosis. Keep me on only while the numbers say it’s worth it.

Find what’s costing you

AI Visibility Report

0 USD, free
Pay onceNo card, no call

The engine’s read of your website, your Google profile and what four AI assistants say about you.

Get my free report

Includes:

  • Eight areas, severity-ranked
  • What each problem is costing, with the maths shownBuilt from two numbers you give me: what a customer is worth, and how many enquiries turn into jobs.
  • Your Google Business Profile against the map pack
  • What ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini sayYour trade and your city, asked of all four assistants. Who they name, and whether it’s you.
  • Your competitors named
  • In your inbox within one business day

Second Opinion

495 USD, one time
Pay onceComes off the audit in full

The report is a machine’s read. This is me reading it, and telling you what’s worth your money.

Get the report first

Everything in the free report, plus:

  • A marked-up report and a written verdict
  • The three items worth your time, and the noise
  • Forty-five minutes on the phone
  • Turned around in two days
  • The $495 comes off the Revenue AuditBook the Revenue Audit after your Second Opinion and it costs $3,005.

Revenue Audit

3,500 USD, one time
Pay once3,005 USD after a Second Opinion

Two weeks with my hands on your business. Every leak found, priced in dollars and put in order.

Book the audit

Everything in the Second Opinion, plus:

  • SEO, AI visibility, local, conversion and brand friction
  • Every leak priced in lost leads and dollars
  • Your rank grid across the whole service areaA 7 × 7 grid of map searches around your area, so you see where you show up and where you don’t.
  • Keywords that pay, with what each is worth
  • A 90-day plan and a week-by-week fix list
  • Your baseline captured before anything changes
  • Yours to keep, whatever you do next
Fix it, and keep it fixed

Engagement

6,000 USD per month
Three seats

The audit, then I do the work. Ninety days first, then month to month. Three clients at a time.

Ask about a seat

Everything in the Revenue Audit, plus:

  • The fix list, done in the order that pays
  • One report, one call and one shared folder a month
  • Quarterly re-diagnosis
  • Ninety days, then month to month
  • Half the audit fee off your first monthStart within sixty days of your Revenue Audit and $1,750 comes off your first month.

The Watch

249 USD per month
Cancel any time

The same report, run again on the first of every month, with an email telling you what moved.

Get the report first

Includes:

  • Re-run every month, automatically
  • An email naming what changed since last time
  • Your monthly leak figure tracked over time
  • A competitor claiming your map spot, caught in a monthRankings drift and AI engines change their minds. None of it announces itself.
  • Cancel whenever you like

All prices in USD. The Second Opinion fee comes off the Revenue Audit in full. Start the Engagement within sixty days of your audit and half the audit fee comes off your first month.

Who you'd be working with

Yishai Koln. Thirty years, one discipline.

I started doing this in 1996, when search meant AltaVista and Lycos. I’ve worked through every change since, inside agencies and cleaning up after them. What I sell isn’t access to tools; anyone can buy the tools. It’s the judgment about which of the fourteen things a tool flags is the one taking money out of your business.

I work alone from Phoenix, three clients at a time. The person who reads your report is the person who does the work.

The ninety-second checkout problem.

You can buy SEO in ninety seconds right now. Ten articles, $500. Twenty backlinks, $800. A technical cleanup, $1,200. Add to cart, enter your card, done.

That model is efficient and it’s cheap and it works beautifully — for people who already know what they need.

You don’t. That’s not an insult. Knowing what a website needs is the entire skill. It’s what takes years to learn, and it’s the one thing nobody selling you a package has bothered to do.

So here’s what happens. You buy content. The content is fine. Nothing moves. Because content was never the problem — your site was fighting itself over duplicate pages, or your service areas had no pages at all, or Google had quietly stopped crawling half your catalog eight months ago.

You didn’t buy the wrong product. You bought a product before anyone asked the question.

The engagement

I work with three companies at a time.

Not a scarcity tactic. A capacity fact. The product is my judgment applied to your site, and judgment doesn’t survive being spread across twenty clients.

The Engagement — $6,000/month. The audit, then I do the work. No fixed deliverable list, because I don’t know yet what your site needs and neither does anyone who hasn’t looked at it. Ninety days, then month to month.

When the three seats are full, the audit is still open — and plenty of people take it to their own team.

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Why me

I started doing this before Google existed.

1996. Search was AltaVista and Lycos, and you ranked by stuffing keywords into a meta tag. Then Google arrived and made that worthless overnight. Then it happened again, and again — Panda, Penguin, mobile-first, the helpful content update — and now answer engines that resolve the question without sending you a click at all.

I can tell a trend from a tactic.

Most of what gets sold as ‘the new thing in SEO’ is a repackaged version of something that stopped working in 2011. I’ve seen the original.

I know what doesn't matter.

Half of what agencies bill for is theatre — work that’s easy to show on a report and has no effect on rankings or revenue. Experience is mostly knowing what to skip.

I've made the expensive mistakes.

On my own sites and on other people’s. You’re buying thirty years of me being wrong, corrected.

You talk to the person thinking.

Every time. The strategy never gets handed to a junior, which is the actual failure mode at most agencies.

Find out who AI recommends instead of you

I ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini the questions your customers ask, then show you who they name, where they got it, and what to fix first.

Free. The full report within one business day. No call, no card.

Sample AI Visibility report for Mesa Valley Air, an HVAC company in Mesa: visibility score 8 out of 100, named in 1 of 12 AI answers, while Competitor A is named in 10 of the same 12.
Sample report. The business and the answers shown are illustrative.

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