Mileage.Online Visibility Benchmark

For financial advisors

See what your referrals see.

96% of referred prospects look you up online before they ever call. This shows them what they find — and who they find instead.

What you get

  • ~30 keywords in your metro, tracked position by position.
  • Every firm that outranks you, discovered — not a list we picked.
  • Site performance and structured-data checks.
  • A narrated walkthrough of all of it.

That work runs a couple thousand dollars when a firm hires us for it. Yours is free, built in about ten minutes, and there’s no call required to read it.

Step 1 of 2 · about 30 seconds

No cost, no obligation, no sales call unless you ask.

Three site-health gauges from a sample benchmark: performance, search readiness, and best practices
The narrated walkthrough control from the report

From a sample benchmark — measured, ranked, and narrated.

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Built by Mileage Design · Cleveland, OH

The same analysis we sell as paid engagements

Delivered to your inbox in about 10 minutes

The moment that decides

A referral, a CPA introduction, a seminar seat — every one of them ends at the same search bar.

What they find either books the conversation or quietly ends it. This benchmark shows you which one is happening in your market.

The deliverable

This is what shows up in your inbox.

Real pages from a sample benchmark. Yours carries your firm, your market, and whichever competitors we discover — not a list we picked, and not a template.

Ranking matrix from a sample benchmark: keywords down the left, the firm and four named competitors across the top, color-coded position pills showing who ranks where
Every keyword, every firm — your row against the competitors discovered in your market.
Gap analysis cards: where the firm is absent, the most contested term, and the shortest climb to page one
Where you’re absent, what’s contested, and the shortest climb to page one.
Site performance compared across the market: the firm and its competitors as horizontal bars
Site health, measured against the same firms — plus a narrated walkthrough of all of it.

01

Two fields

Your site and your market. Thirty seconds, no call.

02

We go look

We run the searches prospects in your metro actually use and record who shows up — including whether that’s you.

03

It lands in your inbox

A private link to your benchmark, narrated, yours to keep.
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Why now

Referrals still close. They just check you first.

They look you up

96%

of referred prospects research a firm online before making contact.

No referral at all

50%

of investors with $5M+ found their current advisor without one.

AI is in the search

25%

of investors under 45 used an AI tool while choosing an advisor.

The referral isn’t the last step anymore — it’s the first one. What happens between the introduction and the call is entirely organic visibility.

Sources: Wealthtender, 2025 survey of 500 U.S. households with $100K+ income · Ficomm Partners and Absolute Engagement, 2026 survey of 1,000 advised investors, via InvestmentNews.

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Who’s behind this

Bill Bishilany, CEO of Mileage Design

Bill Bishilany

CEO, Mileage Design

I built this report because advisors kept asking me the same question in different ways: are we invisible? Most of the time the honest answer needed data nobody had bothered to pull.

So we pull it. If your report shows a real gap, I’ll spend fifteen minutes walking you through what I’d do about it. If it doesn’t, I’ll tell you that too — it’s a better use of both our time than a pitch.

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Questions we get

Is this a sales pitch?

It's the most honest one we have, and we'd rather say so. We build these reports for firms we'd like to work with, because showing you real data about your own market works better than a cold email. The report is yours whether we ever speak or not.

Why is it free?

We charge for this analysis when it's part of a client engagement — it's the kind of work a consultant bills a couple thousand dollars for. Sending it costs us compute and about ten minutes, and some of the firms who read it decide they want help. Most don't, and that's fine.

Is it actually specific to my firm, or a template?

Specific. We pull the searches for your metro, discover who ranks for them, and measure your site. The competitors in your report are whoever we find actually ranking — not a list we picked. Every number comes from your market and your domain.

I get all my business from referrals. Does this apply to me?

That's exactly who it's built for. 96% of referred prospects research a firm online before making contact — what they find either confirms the introduction or quietly ends it. This shows you what they find.

Who sees my information?

Your website and market are public information — that's most of what the analysis runs on. Your name and email stay with us; we don't sell them or share them. Your report lives at a private link that only goes to your inbox.

What happens after I get it?

You read it, or you don't. There's a link in the report to book fifteen minutes with Bill if you want to talk through priorities. If you'd rather we didn't follow up, say so and that's the end of it.

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See what they see.

Two fields. About ten minutes. Yours either way.

Step 1 of 2 · about 30 seconds

No cost, no obligation, no sales call unless you ask.

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