First Page Sage Reviews: What Clients and Employees Say (2026)

First Page Sage’s employer record is solid, 4.3/5 on Glassdoor across 76 ratings, but its client-review trail amounts to a single 7-review Google pool for a firm founded in 2009 (verified August 2026).

First Page Sage is a San Francisco-based SEO and content marketing agency founded in 2009 by CEO Evan Bailyn. Glassdoor’s profile lists the San Francisco headquarters and a 51-200 employee band, while the agency’s Clutch directory profile lists a Berkeley, California address and a wider 50-249 employee range, both Bay Area listings. The agency says its client base exceeds 150 companies.

First Page Sage Review Overview

• Clutch: a live, resolving profile with zero client reviews and no rating displayed, a genuine absence rather than a research gap (verified August 2026).
• GoodFirms: an unclaimed profile carrying no rating and no reviews of its own (verified August 2026).
• Glassdoor: 4.3/5 across 76 ratings, with 79% saying they would recommend the company to a friend (verified August 2026).
• Indeed: 3.9/5 across 7 reviews, a small sample flagged as non-statistical (verified August 2026).
• Google Reviews: 4.9/5 across 7 reviews on the San Francisco business profile, read from Google’s own panel (verified August 2026).
• DesignRush: 5.0/5 across 9 reviews, syndicated 1:1 from Google Maps, so the same pool as the Google figure above rather than a second source (verified August 2026).
• Comparably: 25% of ratings positive across 48 ratings from just 6 employee participants (verified August 2026).

First Page Sage Client Reviews

Client-side evidence is thin. Clutch shows an empty profile, GoodFirms is unclaimed with no rating, and the only scored source is one Google review pool: 4.9/5 on 7 reviews on Google’s own panel, republished by DesignRush as 5.0/5 on 9 (verified August 2026).

Google Reviews: 4.9/5 (7 reviews)

Google’s own business panel for the San Francisco office shows 4.9/5 across 7 reviews. DesignRush republishes that same pool, displaying 9 at 5.0/5 because the two platforms snapshot it at different times, so this is one review pool and not two separate signals. The reviews are recent, dated April and September 2024.

What clients praise:

• SEO strategy effectiveness and lead-generation results
• Responsive, hands-on account management
• Consistent content and thought-leadership output over long engagements

Where clients push back:

• One reviewer described check-in calls as overly detailed, the only complaint surfaced in this sample

“We have seen a tremendous increase in qualified leads and SEO has become our primary lead source. I especially enjoyed working with my account manager, who was always there when I had any questions.”

• Chase McGee, Google review, September 4, 2024, via DesignRush

G2, Trustpilot, UpCity, FeaturedCustomers: no profile existed for First Page Sage as of August 2026. Clutch and GoodFirms are covered below.

The Clutch profile is live but has zero reviews: for an agency founded in 2009 with 150+ claimed clients, an empty Clutch page is itself a meaningful data point about the agency’s platform presence.

GoodFirms carries no First Page Sage rating at all: the profile is unclaimed and displays only the agency’s own marketing copy, with client names like Microsoft and Salesforce listed as self-supplied claims rather than verified reviews.

Effectively one independent client-review source exists, and it is very small: Google’s panel shows 4.9/5 on 7 reviews, DesignRush republishes that same pool, and no other client platform carries a score at all.

First Page Sage Employer Reviews

Employees rate First Page Sage 4.3/5 on Glassdoor across 76 ratings, with 81% approving of CEO Evan Bailyn, a stronger and more current signal than the thinner client-side data.

Glassdoor: 4.3/5 (76 ratings)

Glassdoor’s profile shows 79% of reviewers would recommend the company to a friend and 81% approve of CEO Evan Bailyn.

What employees praise:

• Variety of clients and industries to work across
• A sense of directly contributing to client growth
• Remote work that reviewers say still feels connected, with regular colleague contact

Where employees push back:

• Benefits described as behind comparable-size peers, including health insurance coverage, time off, home-office stipend, and 401K match
• Onboarding and training material described as partly out of date and redundant

“FPS is a great company to work for. I love the diversity of Clients and industries I work with. I feel like I am making a difference in the campaigns I am on and truly helping our clients grow.”

• Glassdoor reviewer (Glassdoor )

“Benefits could be better, like covering health insurance completely, more time off, a home office stipend, improved 401K match, that kind of thing. I’ve worked for companies of similar sizes that offered those benefits, so FPS is a bit behind in that way.”

• Glassdoor reviewer (Glassdoor )

Indeed: 3.9/5 (7 reviews)

Indeed’s 7-review sample is small enough to flag as non-statistical, but its themes broadly track Glassdoor’s.

What employees praise:

• Remote and flexible work arrangements
• Opportunity to learn new skills
• Supportive coworker relationships

Where employees push back:

• Management described as inconsistent in direction, with communication gaps in some departments
• Uneven job security and advancement opportunities
• Benefits, including 401k and health coverage, described as weak in at least one review

“This is one of the best groups of people I have ever worked with. The staff maintains good communication; they are all nice, professional and hard-working at all levels.”

• Accounting Specialist, Remote, Indeed (Indeed )

Comparably records 48 ratings from 6 employee participants, 25% of them positive (verified August 2026). Its aggregate culture grade sits on a page Comparably blocks, so no letter grade is reported. No AmbitionBox profile existed for First Page Sage as of August 2026, consistent with a US-only agency.

Glassdoor’s 76-ratings base is the most reliable employer figure here: it was read directly, carries a real sample size for this size of company, and its themes are echoed in the smaller Indeed sample.

Benefits fall behind peers on both platforms that could be read: health coverage, time off, and 401K match come up as gaps on Glassdoor and Indeed alike, a consistent secondary theme rather than a single reviewer’s complaint.

Comparably is the outlier, on the smallest base: 25% positive from 6 participants runs against Glassdoor’s 79% recommend across 76 ratings and Indeed’s 3.9/5, so it reads as a small-sample divergence rather than a competing verdict.

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