Test Prep Marketing Agency Turn test-date urgency into enrolled students.
One team runs your site, ads, SEO, AI search, follow-up and reviews — all timed to real SAT, ACT & GRE dates and pointed at booked diagnostics and enrolled students.
- Ads timed to the SAT, ACT & GRE dates families are racing
- Diagnostic-booking pages that turn worry into a scheduled test
- Every inquiry tracked to an enrolled student, not just a click
Prefer to talk? (519) 930-8818 — a strategist, not a sales script.
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Test-date search
“SAT tutor near me”
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Diagnostic booked
Free practice test scheduled
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Student enrolled
Added to the next prep class
One team. One growth system.
- Website
- Ads
- SEO
- AI Search
- Follow-up
- Reviews
- USD a month for the Platform plan
- $1,000 USD a month for the Platform plan $1,350 CAD. Your website, hosting, booking, CRM and dashboard in one plan.
- setup fees, month to month
- $0 setup fees, month to month No contract and nothing to buy in. If we're not a fit, you can leave any month.
- you-don't-pay guarantee
- 30 days you-don't-pay guarantee If you're not happy with your first 30 days, you don't pay. That's the whole policy.
These are our real prices, the same ones published on our pricing page.
Why Growth Stalls
Why test-prep seats stay empty before test day.
A strong score-gain story doesn't fill a class by itself. Here's where centers lose students — and our fix.
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Free options make families question why they'd pay
Khan Academy's free official SAT practice is one search away. Your site has to prove a paid seat is worth more than a free video — fast.
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Inquiries land days before a test date, then go cold
A family that finds you three weeks before the SAT won't wait for a callback. We answer fast enough to still book the diagnostic.
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Your GRE audience doesn't search like your SAT parents do
A parent Googling “SAT tutor near me” and a working adult Googling “GRE prep near me” need different pages and a different offer.
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National brands outspend you on the searches that matter
Kaplan and Princeton Review bid on every SAT and ACT keyword in your market.
Your growth engine
More enrolled students, from five channels working as one.
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Custom Website
Built to book diagnostics
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Google Ads
Timed to test dates
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SEO
Found first, free
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AI Search
Recommended by AI
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Email Marketing
Fills the next class
Full prep classes
Google Ads · PPC
Google Ads for test-prep centers. Own the searches families run before test day.
We run ads timed to real SAT, ACT & GRE registration and test dates — so your center shows up the moment a family starts searching, not after they've already booked with a national chain.
- Campaigns that ramp up ahead of every test date, not just fall
- Landing pages built around your free diagnostic, not a generic form
- Every call and booking tied to an enrolled student
Sponsored
www.yourtestprepcenter.com
SAT/ACT/GRE Prep · Free Practice Test
Personalized test prep with real score-report proof. Book a free diagnostic and see your starting score before you commit. Small classes & 1:1 available.
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- ACT Prep
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Local SEO
Search engine optimization. Outrank the national chains in your own backyard.
Kaplan and Princeton Review can outspend you on ads, but they can't out-local you.
- Map-pack wins for “sat tutor near me” and “act prep near me”
- City and school-district pages for the families near you
- Score-jump reviews that outrank a national brand's generic listing
High-Intent Visibility
The searches that fill test-prep classes.
Families start searching the moment a test date lands on the calendar — and more of them now ask an AI assistant first. These are the kinds of high-intent searches we put your center in front of.
Page one of Google & Bing
The keywords we build your program pages, ads, and content to win — paid and organic.
- sat tutor near me
- act prep classes near me
- gre prep near me
- best sat tutor [your city]
- sat vs act prep
- sat prep classes near me
- gre tutor near me
- online sat tutoring
- act tutor near me
- sat practice test near me
Google Search · Bing Search
Recommended by AI search
AI-search optimization (AIO) so assistants name your center when someone asks where to prep.
- “What's the best SAT tutor near me?”
- “Where can I take a free ACT practice test in [your city]?”
- “Recommend a GRE prep course near me with good reviews.”
- “Should my kid prep for the SAT or the ACT?”
- “Best test-prep center in [your city] for score improvement?”
Google Gemini · ChatGPT · Claude (Anthropic) · Google AI Overviews · Perplexity
Sample searches for illustration — real targets are scoped to your tests, market, and competition. Rankings and AI visibility build over time.
Email Marketing
Email marketing for test-prep centers. From diagnostic score to enrolled student.
A diagnostic score report goes cold fast, and families enroll wherever the follow-up feels like a plan, not a sales pitch.
- Every diagnostic followed up with a clear next step, not just a score
- Test-date reminders that keep enrolled students on track
- Win-backs for families who went quiet before enrolling
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Here's Maya's diagnostic score report
What the score means — and the plan we'd recommend before her test date.
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One step left to reserve Maya's seat
Lock in her class before it fills for the next test date.
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Test-date reminder + final prep tips
Everything Maya needs to know before test day.
Test-Date Reminder
Proof, not promises
Track every inquiry, call, and enrolled student.
Every channel feeds one dashboard, so you can see which ads, pages, and calls became enrolled students — and what each one really cost to fill.
Enrollment Tracking No diagnostic goes cold
Every inquiry — call, form, or diagnostic booking — is captured, tagged to its source, and followed up automatically.
Inquiry-to-enrollment attribution
See which campaign or keyword produced each enrolled student — fund the tests and channels that fill classes, cut the ones that don't.
Automated speed-to-lead follow-up
New inquiries get a text and email within minutes, then steady nudges toward a booked diagnostic — no front-desk backlog before test dates.
ROI Tracking Cost per student, not click
We tie every enrolled student back to the ad or page that produced them, so you know your real cost per enrollment by test — SAT, ACT, or GRE — and can put budget where seats actually fill.
True cost per enrolled student
Ad spend, calls, forms, and enrollments in one view — what a new student costs, and which way that number is moving.
ROI by test
SAT, ACT, and GRE tracked separately, so you see which test brings the best-fit, ready-to-enroll students at the best cost.
Call Analysis Answer every anxious parent call
Families still call with test-date questions before they book. We record and score every call, text back the missed ones in seconds, and give your front desk real numbers to coach from.
Call recording & scoring
Each call is scored on whether it moved toward a booked diagnostic, so missed chances surface while the family can still be won back.
Missed-call recovery
A missed call triggers an instant text-back, so the family hears from you before they call the next name on their list.
Review Generation Turn score jumps into 5-star proof
A big score jump is the strongest proof a test-prep center has, and families read reviews before they book anyone.
Automated review requests
Families get a friendly review request right after a score improves or a student finishes their program.
Reputation monitoring
New reviews from Google and other major platforms land in one feed, so you can reply fast and protect the name your center runs on.
Our work
Six live sample sites. Yours gets a design all its own.
Samples from other niches
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Marlowe Academy
Where curiosity becomes character · Education
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Caldwell University
Programs that change trajectories · Education
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Northpath Bootcamp
Career outcomes, not just curriculum · Education
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The Study Loft
Calm tutoring, published prices · Education
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Greenlight Driving Academy
Calm cars, certified coaches, green lights · Education
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The Practice Room
Honest start ages, published tuition math · Education
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Straight answers
Marketing for test prep (sat/act/gre), without the mystery
Setup is $0, plans are month-to-month, and if you don't love your first 30 days, you don't pay. Tell us about your center and we'll send exact numbers in a proposal within one business day. SearchPod is one monthly plan: $1,000 USD ($1,350 CAD) for the Platform, and the Performance plan for ads and SEO is optional and priced on results.
If diagnostic bookings dry up between test dates, or every new student still comes from a parent referral, marketing pays for itself. We build the site, ads, and follow-up that bring in students ahead of every SAT, ACT, and GRE date — not just back-to-school. If every seat already fills itself, you may not need us yet.
It fills your seats before test day. SearchPod builds your website, runs Google Ads timed to real test dates, wins map-pack and AI-search visibility, and automates follow-up and review requests — one team, one system, pointed at your next diagnostic.
Pick one that understands the test-prep calendar — SAT, ACT, and GRE dates run year-round, not just fall — and that tracks an inquiry all the way to an enrolled student, not just a form fill. Ask two questions: how do you time campaigns to real test dates, and can you show cost per enrolled student? Generalist agencies usually can't answer either.
Google Ads can bring diagnostic bookings within the first couple of weeks — often in time for the next SAT or ACT date. SEO, AI search, and reviews build over 3–6 months into families who find you without a click charge. Centers that run both from day one stay full test date after test date.
One team runs your site, ads, SEO, AI search, email, and reviews instead of five vendors that don't talk to each other. We build campaigns around real SAT, ACT, and GRE dates, follow up in minutes, and track every inquiry to an enrolled student. Pricing is public, plans are month-to-month, and you own your ad accounts and data.
Yes — a free practice test is the strongest lead magnet in test prep, and we build the site and ads around booking it. Clear score-report pages, an easy scheduler, and ads timed to upcoming test dates turn searching families into booked diagnostics.
Yes. Calls, forms, and diagnostic bookings are tracked from day one and tied through to enrollment, so you know your real cost per enrolled student and which test — SAT, ACT, or GRE — earns its budget.
That's the point. National chains can outspend you on generic keywords, but they can't out-local you. We build map-pack rankings, city-specific pages, and real score-jump reviews from your own families — the trust signals a national ad budget can't buy in your market.
Yes. Diagnostic bookings and inquiries flow into the scheduling or CRM software your team already uses, tagged with their source — so your front desk works one list and you can trace every enrollment back to its campaign.
About 2–4 weeks for most test-prep sites, depending on how many test and program pages we build and how fast content and feedback come back. You get a clear timeline up front — and we can aim the launch at your next big test date.
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Free Proposal
Let's fill your next class.
Tell us your tests and test dates — we'll send a plan to fill them, priced from our public rates.
- Custom plan priced from public rates
- Free audit of where diagnostic bookings leak
- A specialist responds within one business day
Month-to-month. Your ad accounts, domain and Business Profile stay yours. Or call (519) 930-8818.
Request your free proposal.
Tell us about your programs — SAT, ACT, GRE — and we'll send a plan to fill your next test date, plus a free audit of your current site. No obligation.