Christos Karampetsos is the Chicago SEO consultant at Rise Marketing HQ. He started the agency and decides what gets worked on for every client. Every free audit we send has been written or checked by him.
We’re in Brookfield, Wisconsin, roughly 90 miles up I-94 from the Loop. Our Chicago clients work with us remotely. The person who looks at your site on day one is the same person reading your numbers months later.
If you’re shopping for an SEO consultant, there’s a good chance an agency let you down before. The pitch came from someone senior. After you signed, the account went to a junior hire, and the reports turned into charts nobody explained.
Hiring a consultant solves that, because one named person makes the calls and can tell you why. The catch with going solo is capacity. A single consultant can only get so much done in a month.
Rise is set up to cover both sides. Christos makes the strategic calls and is accountable for how they turn out.
Filipos “Philip” Maziotis handles execution and writes your monthly report, so plans turn into finished work.
Every engagement opens with a written audit. Christos goes through your Search Console history, the service pages that matter most, the technical side of the site, and the competitors ranking above you. What comes back is a short, ranked list of fixes rather than a 200-line export from a tool.
Get your free 24-hour auditCompetition in Chicago is heavy, so choosing where to compete counts for more than it would in a smaller city. Together we pick the first services and neighborhoods to go after. We weigh search demand, how tough the competition is, and what a new customer is worth to you.
Find the best neighborhoods to targetNext we make sure your key pages can be crawled and indexed, and that they load fast on a phone. Fixes happen in order of impact. You can see how we handle that on our technical SEO page.
Check your site’s technical healthIf you meet customers in person, the map pack can bring in more calls than the regular results. Google says its local results are “mainly based on relevance, distance, and popularity.” That’s why categories, reviews, and accurate listings all get attention.
See how you show up on the mapEach core service needs a page that answers what someone searching for it wants to know. We plan, write, or rewrite those pages, then link them so Google understands how the site fits together.
Get feedback on your service pagesEvery result we report traces back to Google Search Console, GA4 or call tracking. Call tracking goes in before we judge any campaign, because a ranking that doesn’t produce calls isn’t much of a result.
Find out what your tracking is missingChicago has 77 community areas, and the map pack can look different in each one. The same search in River North, Logan Square, or Hyde Park can return different businesses. That’s because Google weighs distance from the person searching.
The suburbs add another layer. A contractor based in the city may want work in Evanston, Oak Park, or Naperville.
A downtown practice may only care about the Loop and West Loop. Some businesses work the whole I-94 corridor, from Chicago through Lake County and Kenosha toward Milwaukee. We set those boundaries before deciding which pages and profiles to build.
The industries differ too. Manufacturing, logistics, law and other professional services, and healthcare all search and buy in very different ways.
Competition is the other difference. Many categories include national brands with large review counts and big marketing teams. Independent businesses usually win by being more specific: clearer service pages, better neighborhood relevance, and steady reviews from real customers.
Christos completed Semrush Academy’s full certification track in May 2026. All seven certifications are active through May 2027.
The seven are SEO Essentials, Keyword Research Essentials, Local SEO Essentials, and International SEO. They also include Technical SEO + AI Search Essentials, Off-Page SEO + AI Search Essentials, and AI Search Operating System.
Search changes fast. AI Overviews are a good example of something that didn’t exist a few years ago.
He has led more than 106 campaigns at Rise. Every one of them ran month to month, without a long-term contract.
Our results so far come from Wisconsin businesses, and we’d rather show those honestly than invent a Chicago case study. They show how Christos approaches the work.
An electrical contractor near Milwaukee. Google’s monthly reports show search clicks growing from 215 in July 2025 to a peak of 1,716 in May 2026, with 1,167 in September 2026. The work focused on service pages, content, and the paths visitors use to get in touch.
A home remodeler based in Brookfield that serves Waukesha County and the Milwaukee area. It started with no leads, no traffic and no calls; the website now brings about 15 online leads a month and the Google Business Profile 13 to 15 calls a month. That came from about two years of site improvements, location pages, and Google Business Profile work.
“Made my business website go from 20 calls a week to 50 calls a week. If you want your business to rise, this is the man to go with.” Samier Saleh, a Milwaukee business owner, in a public Google review.
These are individual results over specific periods. They aren’t a forecast for your business.
Most SEO work happens in shared accounts and documents anyway, so distance rarely matters. We meet by video call and work inside your own Search Console and analytics accounts. Then we send a monthly report you can actually read.
You own everything. Your Google accounts, website, and data stay in your name from day one. If you ever leave, you take all of it with you.
Ways to work together
Start here
$0no obligation
Christos writes or reviews it personally, and it comes back within 24 hours. It covers what’s working, what isn’t, and what he would fix first. There’s no obligation and no sales pressure afterward.
For in-house teams
Strategyplus review of your team’s work
If you have an in-house marketer or developer, we can set the priorities and review their work. You get the strategy and oversight without paying for implementation you don’t need.
Full service
$1,000per month, starting price
Ongoing SEO starts from $1,000 per month. The final scope depends on how many pages need work, how much content is involved, and whether local SEO is part of it. You can stop any month.
Request a free 24-hour SEO auditChristos reviews your site, Search Console, and competitors, then sends a written audit within 24 hours.
We talk through the findings, agree on the first priorities, and set what success should look like for your business.
Our team makes the agreed changes, or your developer does with our guidance. Nothing goes live without you knowing what changed.
You get a monthly report covering work completed, search performance, and calls and forms. Christos stays on the account the whole time.
No. We’re in Brookfield, Wisconsin, about 90 miles north of the Loop. Chicago clients work with us remotely, and the same person runs your strategy either way.
Our ongoing SEO starts from $1,000 per month, and the free 24-hour audit costs nothing. The final price depends on how much work your site needs.
Yes. He sets the strategy, writes or reviews your audit, and leads the strategy conversations. Filipos runs day-to-day execution, so you always know who is doing what.
Technical fixes can show up within weeks. Rankings for new pages and stronger local visibility usually take several months to build. We report progress monthly so you can see the trend.
No. Rankings are Google’s call, so a guaranteed position is a sales line, not a plan. What Christos can commit to is a clear priority list, fast implementation, and reporting that shows what really changed.
Yes. Plenty of Chicago businesses have a marketer or web developer already. We hand them a ranked list of fixes, answer their questions, and confirm each change once it’s published.
Often, yes, in a specific area. Chains have scale, but independents can win with clearer service pages, stronger neighborhood relevance, and steady reviews from real customers.
No. Every engagement runs month to month. You can stop when the work stops making sense for you.
Send us your website and the services you want more of. Christos will review it, and you’ll get a written audit within 24 hours covering what he’d fix first and why.
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