The Search Guru

The Search Guru is a web designer and digital marketing agency in Amherst, Ohio. The agency works with B2B marketers, manufacturers, and industrial companies, handling paid search, display and social campaign audits, landing page conversion improvements, technical SEO reviews, digital marketing growth strategy, email communication, lead generation, content creation, and marketing automation. It holds a rating of 5.00 from the customers who have reviewed it.

Founded in 2004, The Search Guru describes itself as a digital agency that gets work done for clients rather than adding to their to-do lists. Its work centers on a three-step process: spotting manual tasks that consume expert hours, shifting that work to GPT-based digital twins and low-code automations, and scaling the gains by reinvesting freed time into conversion rate optimization sprints and AI-powered pages. The agency also runs a four-step system for moving marketing bottlenecks to measurable wins, and offers AI-powered B2B marketing services built around education, pilot projects, and scaling AI initiatives across a marketing strategy.

The team is led by president and founder Leslie Carruthers, an internet marketing and search engine professional with more than 20 years of experience who produces and delivers the Retail and Ecommerce Forum at Content Marketing World and serves as a lead mentor for the TechStars Anywhere Program. Cristiana Dutca is operations manager, with more than eight years in project and operations management for digital and tech companies, and Tracy Chen works as administrative assistant, supporting the team across research, operations, and business development.

The agency sits on N Leavitt Rd, a short distance from both North Leavitt Road and South Leavitt Road, about 0.4 miles from Neiding Park and the Amherst Post Office, roughly 0.6 miles from Saint Josephs School, and about 0.7 miles from OH-2.

The Search Guru pairs two decades of search and internet marketing experience with AI-driven conversion and content work, bringing that combination to manufacturers and B2B marketers in Amherst and beyond.