Kyle Eggleston, Owner and Lead SEO Consultant at Chicago SEO Consultant

Kyle Eggleston

Owner & Lead SEO Consultant

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Chicago SEO Consultant

Stop losing customers to competitors who outrank you. We help Chicago businesses win the Google map pack, organic results, and AI search — and turn that visibility into booked jobs.

Free SEO Consultation

Tell us about your business and we'll get back to you with a plan to grow your search visibility.

I personally review every request that comes through, you'll hear back from me, not a faceless sales desk.

Come Under Our Care

Come under our care and we'll launch your business into the next stage

We build custom roadmaps but deploy them in the most effective way to maximize SEO and AI visibility. We're different than an agency. We truly drive value in the shortest amount of time and make a big splash.

See what's included in each option on our services & pricing page.

Meet your consultant

Kyle Eggleston, Owner and Lead SEO Consultant at Chicago SEO Consultant
I spent years automating SEO across 10,000+ Walgreens locations before bringing that enterprise playbook to Chicago businesses. In 20+ years my rule hasn't changed: optimize for humans first, put AI to work on the heavy lifting, and out-solve the problem in front of you. The win goes to the best problem-solver, not the biggest budget.
Kyle EgglestonOwner & Lead SEO Consultant
Chicago SEO Consultant, the Chicago skyline at blue hour reflected in the river

Our results by the numbers

100+
Projects Completed

Delivered for Chicago enterprises and small businesses, from single locations to multi-location franchises.

260%
Company Growth

The kind of compounding organic growth our data-driven SEO strategies are built to produce.

20+
Years of Experience

Two decades optimizing websites and winning some of the most competitive local search markets.

Brand Mention Counter

How Often Is Your Brand Mentioned Online?

Enter your brand name and find out how many times it's been mentioned across the web in seconds.

Organic Visibility Checker

How Visible Is Your Site in Google?

Enter any domain to see how many keywords it ranks for, its estimated monthly organic traffic, and where those rankings land in search.

Compounding Growth

SEO is the channel that compounds

Unlike paid ads that stop the moment you stop spending, organic visibility builds on itself. Every fixed technical issue, earned link, and ranked page stacks — turning steady work into an asset that keeps returning traffic and revenue month after month.

Month 1Month 12
260%
Company growth

Illustrative trajectory of compounding organic growth — not a specific client account.

Senior-Level SEO. No Junior Hand-Offs.

Every dollar you spend on SEO should make more than it costs

Most SEO agencies assign a senior strategist to sell you and a junior team to execute. We don't work that way. Kyle personally handles strategy, technical audits, and content — so the person who understands your market is the person doing the work.

The result is compounding organic growth that pays for itself — in calls, leads, and booked jobs from people who were already searching for what you offer.

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The Shift to AI Answers

Google is answering searches before anyone clicks

AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Gemini now settle more and more searches right on the results page. For Chicago businesses, that means the clicks (and the calls) that used to be yours are quietly going to whatever the AI decides to cite.

−58%

of the #1 result's clicks vanish when an AI Overview sits above it, leads that never reach your phone.

Source: Ahrefs · 2025-26 study
~40%

of informational and “how-to” searches already trigger an AI Overview, exactly where service businesses get found, and it's climbing.

Source: Semrush · 2025 study
<1 in 3

Google searches still send a click to the open web. The rest end on the results page, and AI answers are accelerating it.

Source: SparkToro · 2026

The businesses that adapt now will own the answer box.

We make sure AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Gemini cite you, not the competitor down the street, so the next wave of searchers still ends up on your phone.

Chicago SEO Market Report — July 2026

We analyzed 120 Chicago SEO providers.
The data is harder to ignore than the sales pitch.

Before you hand your search rankings to someone, you should know what the Chicago SEO market actually looks like. We mapped it — every agency, every consultant, every firm we could find on Google Maps. Here's what 120 provider profiles reveal.

120
Providers analyzed

Every SEO & digital marketing firm we could find on Google Maps in Chicago.

33%
Have zero reviews

One in three Chicago SEO providers can't demonstrate local SEO works for their own business.

12
Median Google reviews

That's how many clients most providers can point to publicly. A thin track record for a year-long investment.

85%
Are agencies

True independent consultants — where the strategist is also the practitioner — are genuinely rare.

Our Services

Specialized SEO Services

The technical, content, local, and AI disciplines required to dominate modern search, all under one senior Chicago team.

Tools & platforms we work with

Tools and platforms we work with

Google Search Console logoAhrefs logoMoz logoScreaming Frog logoBrightLocal logoCloudflare logoLooker Studio logoOpenAI logoAnthropic logoZapier logoMake logon8n logoSlack logoYouTube logo

Visit or Contact Chicago SEO Consultant

Office
Chicago SEO Consultant
424 W Diversey Pkwy #625
Chicago, IL 60614
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Meet the owner

Kyle Eggleston, Owner and Lead SEO Consultant at Chicago SEO Consultant
I spent years automating SEO across 10,000+ Walgreens locations before bringing that enterprise playbook to Chicago businesses. In 20+ years my rule hasn't changed: optimize for humans first, put AI to work on the heavy lifting, and out-solve the problem in front of you. The win goes to the best problem-solver, not the biggest budget.
Kyle EgglestonOwner & Lead SEO Consultant

Free Tool

Check Your Site's Organic Footprint

Enter any domain to see how many keywords it ranks for and roughly how much organic traffic it receives. Powered by DataForSEO.

Frequently Asked Questions

An SEO consultant analyzes your website, your market, and your competitors, then builds and executes a strategy to grow your visibility in search. That includes technical fixes, on-page and content optimization, local SEO, link and citation building, and ongoing measurement. A good consultant ties every recommendation back to revenue (calls, leads, and bookings) rather than vanity metrics, and works as a senior partner instead of farming the work out to junior staff.

A local consultant understands the Chicago market, its neighborhoods, and the competitive landscape your customers actually search within. We tailor strategy to the suburbs and service areas you serve, optimize your Google Business Profile for proximity, and build genuinely local relevance signals. The result is visibility where your buyers are (downtown, across Cook County, and in the surrounding suburbs) backed by transparent reporting and senior-level execution.

Realistically, expect meaningful movement in 3-4 months and competitive rankings in 6-12. Local SEO often moves faster, with improved map pack visibility in 60-90 days. The timeline depends on your starting point, the competitiveness of your market, and how quickly technical and content work can be implemented.

No ethical SEO guarantees #1 rankings due to Google's algorithm volatility. We guarantee a data-driven process, technical excellence, and transparent reporting tied to your actual revenue (calls, leads, and booked work) not promises no one can keep.

We keep it simple. Kyle's Care Package is our flagship ongoing engagement at $3,500 for the first month, then $1,950 per month after that. If your goals, market, or number of locations call for something more tailored, Custom Care is scoped after an audit and a real conversation about where you want to go. Prefer a one-time deep dive first? A standalone SEO Audit is $3,500 and doubles as the roadmap for a larger engagement. You can review all three on our services and pricing page.

No. All strategy, technical SEO, and content development is handled by our senior team in Chicago. We don't farm out your digital presence to junior account managers or overseas content mills, the people who plan your campaign are the people who execute it.