First Page Sage
San Francisco Bay Area SEO and GEO agency founded in 2009, known for thought leadership content and named enterprise clients such as Cadence.
Proofs
Every number below links to its source. Ratings and review counts are read from the platform on the date shown; the reviews themselves stay on the platform.
Case studies
Named, public, with a stated result. An unnamed client story does not count.
Founders
- Books: Outsmarting Google (2011), Outsmarting Social Media (2012) and SEO Made Easy (2013)
- Named Top New Speaker of the Year by Vistage
- Started and sold five companies before founding First Page Sage, according to the agency bio
What they do
- Services
- GEO · SEO · Content SEO
- Industries
- SaaS · Finance · Healthcare · Real estate
- Regions served
- US
- Monthly budget
- $15k+/mo
- Team size
- 51-200
- Founded
- 2009
- Address
- 2930 Domingo Avenue #174, Berkeley, CA 94705
- Pricing
- On request
About
First Page Sage is an SEO agency based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a Berkeley mailing address on its Clutch profile. Clutch gives 2009 as the founding year and 50 to 249 employees. The firm is built around thought leadership content written for search, and it added a generative engine optimization service in May 2023 aimed at getting clients recommended by AI assistants. CEO Evan Bailyn co-wrote the 2011 book Outsmarting Google. The site shows logos for large clients including Salesforce, Logitech, Verizon, U.S. Bank, Dignity Health, Corcoran and Cadence.
The proof behind those logos is thin. Of eight case studies on the site, only one names its client: Cadence Design Systems, where the agency reports a 934% rise in keyword rankings and more than 100,000 monthly organic sessions in early 2021. The other seven, including all of the GEO stories, describe unnamed clients such as a plastic surgeon, a law firm and an AI writing assistant, so their figures rest on the agency's word. The site's own copy names no industries of focus, and its GEO page links to cost guidance in an article rather than a price list.
What is missing: the Clutch profile shows no reviews, no G2 profile or Google review profile was found, and no public price list was found on the agency's own site. Clutch lists a $10,000 minimum project. The about page names Evan Bailyn as founder, and the agency site links his LinkedIn profile.
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