Gurbaj Singh.
Klaviyo · Ecommerce SEO · AI search

Klaviyo and ecommerce SEO, built to be measured.

I am an independent Klaviyo expert and ecommerce SEO consultant. I run lifecycle email and organic search for DTC brands, and white-label execution for agencies who need the work done quietly and properly. Eleven years in, one rule: the numbers I report are the numbers you can check.

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  • Bring the account or the site. I will tell you what I would change first.
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100%

Job success score

4.9

Across 18 reviews

26

Contracts delivered

1,800+

Hours billed

What I do

Six disciplines. No development, no ads, no social.

Narrow on purpose. If a brief sits outside this, I will tell you before we start rather than learn it on your budget.

Klaviyo lifecycle email

Flow architecture, segmentation and the campaign calendar. Conversion-based exits, re-entry rules and suppression handled so the programme stops fighting itself.

  • Flows
  • Segments
  • Deliverability
  • Klaviyo audit

Email marketing strategy

The layer above the platform. Audience research and segmentation, offer and subject-line split testing, send-time and frequency optimisation, and reporting that separates what worked from what merely happened.

  • Audience research
  • Split testing
  • Automation
  • Optimisation

HubSpot management

Consultation, onboarding and ongoing management across Marketing, Sales, Service and Operations Hub. Workflows, lifecycle stages, properties, pipelines and dashboards, set up so the team actually uses them.

  • Onboarding
  • Workflows
  • Reporting
  • No development

Ecommerce SEO

Technical and on-page at scale. Crawl budget, faceted navigation, internal link equity and the indexation problems that quietly cap a catalogue.

  • Technical
  • On-page
  • Content
  • Crawl budget

AI search visibility

Getting a brand cited inside ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot. Tracked month to month in Brand Radar, not spot-checked and hoped for.

  • GEO
  • Entity work
  • Citations
  • Brand Radar

White-label for agencies

Execution capacity under your name. Production, publishing and manual link building from documented SOPs, so quality holds at volume and there is little to manage.

  • Link building
  • Production
  • Publishing
  • Discreet

Stack

Klaviyo · HubSpot · Shopify · WooCommerce · Ahrefs and Brand Radar · Google Search Console · GA4 · Screaming Frog · Pitchbox · BuzzStream

Disciplines

Lifecycle email · Ecommerce SEO · Generative engine optimisation · Backlink building and digital PR · Technical audits · Marketing automation

Certified

HubSpot Inbound, Digital Marketing and Reporting certifications, all current and verifiable below.

Certifications

Current, verifiable, with the codes attached.

Each one carries a certification code you can check against HubSpot Academy. Nothing here expires before 2027.

HubSpot Academy Inbound Certified certificate issued to Gurbaj Singh

HubSpot Academy

Inbound Certified

Issued
18 Sep 2026
Valid to
17 Oct 2028
Code
1ce02ae5a4084fe3b153f6a7ec682302
HubSpot Academy Digital Marketing Certified certificate issued to Gurbaj Singh

HubSpot Academy

Digital Marketing Certified

Issued
18 Sep 2026
Valid to
17 Oct 2028
Code
bf23ecc42c52459586f6714eb8aeec5a
HubSpot Academy Reporting Certified certificate issued to Gurbaj Singh

HubSpot Academy

HubSpot Reporting Certified

Issued
18 Sep 2026
Valid to
18 Oct 2027
Code
5a4c9cf5c0e44103b75c4f9938a8def6
Live builds

Three flows, why each one exists, and what it earns.

Mapped from a live Klaviyo account, not drawn from a template. Revenue figures are the last 30 days on the conversion metric the account uses.

Viewed ProductTRIGGER Wait4 HOURS Email 1REMINDER, DAY 0 Wait20 HOURS Email 2PAIRINGS, DAY 1 Wait2 DAYS First-time buyer?SPLIT Eligible item?SPLIT Email 3, first-order offerA/B TEST, DAY 3 EXIT EXIT bought before other category

Why it exists

Someone looks at a product and leaves. Most of them are not ready yet, and a single generic reminder treats a first-time visitor and a five-time buyer as if they were the same person.

The problem it solved

The store was handing first-order discount pricing to customers who had already bought several times. That is margin given away on revenue the store would have earned anyway. It was invisible because the flow reported positive revenue either way.

What changed

The offer now sits behind two gates: the person has never placed an order, and the item they viewed is one the margin supports. Everyone else exits after the second email. The final send runs as an A/B test with UTM tracking, and smart sending stops a person in three flows receiving three emails in a day.

Results, last 30 days

$4,147

Attributed revenue from this flow alone

Per recipient
$6.40
Emails in flow
3
Conditional splits
2, nested
Span
3 days
Client work

Email, search and AI visibility, kept separate.

Three disciplines, three kinds of proof. These are agency engagements, so the clients are not named. Figures come from Ahrefs in September 2026.

B2B SaaS · AI search

Cited across six AI engines

AI citations
325
Cited pages
184
Perplexity citations
96
ChatGPT citations
34
Keywords in top 3
479

B2B security · SEO

High-value commercial terms

Organic traffic
859 / mo
Traffic value, Ahrefs est.
$3,493 / mo
Keywords in top 3
53
Ranking keywords
165
AI citations
56

Vehicle retail · GEO

Small site, outsized AI presence

AI citations
103
Cited pages
42
Keywords in top 3
85 of 167
AI Mode citations
26
Perplexity citations
21
Longest-running engagement

A DTC brand, three disciplines, one operator.

One account, three disciplines.

I own the email program, the SEO and content program, and the AI-search visibility work. The email side runs seventeen live flows alongside a weekly campaign calendar: a winback series split four ways by product family so a lapsed buyer hears about what they actually bought, a payment-recovery flow that pulled back roughly $47K on its own, and segmentation that separates engaged buyers from the rest of the list.

On the search side I built this brand's AI visibility from nothing. It is now cited in ChatGPT, surfaces in Google AI Overviews and appears in Perplexity, tracked month to month in Ahrefs Brand Radar rather than spot-checked and hoped for.

At a glance

Attributed revenue
$1.3M / 12mo
Campaigns sent
158
Live flows
17
Open rate
28.8 to 34.3%
Payment recovery
~$47K
List size
~37,800
Cited in AI
3 engines

† Attributed revenue as the platform reports it, not incremental. The two are not the same, and most reports do not say which they mean.

How I work

The part most people find out three months in.

01

I tell you what the data says

Including when it says the thing you paid for is not working. Attributed and incremental get separated. Metrics that flatter get flagged. You will never learn about a problem from a dashboard before you hear it from me.

02

I work from documented SOPs

Vetting thresholds, pre-send checklists, publishing standards. Output stays consistent as volume rises, onboarding is quick, and there is very little to supervise.

03

I say no to the wrong brief

If a keyword cannot realistically be won, or a link target is not worth the money, I will say so before we start rather than bill you to find out. Scope I cannot deliver well, I turn down.

Track record

Eighteen reviews, all of them public.

100%

Job success score

4.9

Average of 18 reviews

26

Contracts delivered

1,800+

Hours billed

Verifiable on Upwork. Not self-reported.

In their words

Client reviews, including the four-star one.

Verbatim from the Upwork profile. A page that only shows fives is a page nobody believes.

★★★★★

HubSpot · 5.0 · 2023

"It was excellent working with Gurbaj. He went above and beyond. He was able to quickly understand the needs and execute things fast. I will totally recommend Gurbaj for any marketing or Hubspot related gigs."

CollaborativeClear communicatorAccountable for outcomes

HubSpot trainer, Marketing, Sales, Service and Ops Hub

★★★★★

SEO · 5.0 · 2020

"Gurbaj is an incredible communicator and sees and understands the bigger picture. His desire to work hard and provide honest work to his clients. My profession is to build a team of people for companies. I understand what makes good employees and Gurbaj has all those qualities. I would highly recommend him for any project."

Clear communicator

SEO retainer

★★★★☆

Content · 4.8 · 2022

"This is the second time we worked together. It was a pleasant experience, even though some small parts weren't perfect, Gurbaj fixed it all. I am certain we'll work again."

Solution oriented

Blog content plan, repeat client

Questions

Asked often enough to answer here.

What does a Klaviyo expert actually do?

Three things, in the order that usually matters. Flow architecture, which is the automated email that runs whether or not anyone is at a desk. Segmentation, so the right people get the right message and the rest of the list is not burned. And deliverability, which decides whether any of it reaches an inbox at all. Campaign sending is the visible part and the smallest part. A good Klaviyo agency spends most of its time on the flows nobody sees.

What is a Klaviyo audit and what does it cover?

A structured review of an existing Klaviyo account: every live flow and where it leaks, list health and suppression, segment logic, deliverability signals, and whether the revenue the dashboard reports is attributed or incremental. The output is a prioritised list of what to fix first and what to leave alone, not a forty-page PDF. Most accounts have two or three fixes worth more than everything else combined, and a Klaviyo audit exists to find them.

How much does a Klaviyo consultant cost?

It depends on whether you want a fixed piece of work or ongoing ownership. An audit is a one-off fee. Building a flow programme from scratch is usually project-priced against a defined list of flows. Ongoing management is a monthly retainer sized to the campaign calendar and the number of live flows. I quote after seeing the account, because quoting before seeing it means either padding the number or discovering the problem on your budget.

What is generative engine optimisation, and is it different from SEO?

Generative engine optimisation, or GEO, is the work of getting a brand cited inside AI answers: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot. It overlaps with SEO but it is not the same job. Classic SEO optimises for a ranked list of links. GEO optimises for being the source an answer is assembled from, which depends more on entity clarity, citation-worthy pages and third-party corroboration than on ranking position alone. It is measurable: citation counts per platform can be tracked month to month in Ahrefs Brand Radar.

Is answer engine optimisation the same as GEO?

Near enough that arguing about it wastes your time. Answer engine optimisation, or AEO, usually describes optimising for direct-answer surfaces including featured snippets and voice. GEO usually describes optimising for generative models that synthesise an answer from several sources. The practical work overlaps almost completely: clear entities, question-shaped content, structured data, and citations from places the models already trust.

What does ecommerce SEO actually include?

For a catalogue site, the technical layer usually matters more than the content layer. Crawl budget, so the crawler spends its time on pages that can rank rather than on filter permutations. Faceted navigation control. Internal link equity, so category pages are not starved. Indexation diagnosis, which is where most ecommerce SEO engagements should start. Then on-page at scale, and content that targets the terms with commercial intent rather than the ones with the biggest volume.

How long before ecommerce SEO shows results?

Technical fixes can move indexation within weeks, because you are removing a blocker rather than building authority. Rankings on commercial terms take longer, typically three to six months on an established domain and considerably longer on a new one. Anyone promising faster on a competitive term is either buying links or describing a keyword nobody searches.

Do you work white label for agencies?

Yes, and it is a large part of the work. Production, publishing and manual link building delivered under your name, from documented SOPs, with no contact with your client unless you want it. White label SEO services only work if the confidentiality runs both ways, so agency clients are never named here or anywhere else, and neither are their results without written permission.

Do you do HubSpot development?

No. I do HubSpot consultation, onboarding, management and automation across Marketing, Sales, Service and Operations Hub: workflows, lifecycle stages, lists, properties, pipelines, dashboards and reporting. Custom code, HubL theme development and API integrations are a developer's job and I will tell you that rather than take the work.

Which email platforms do you work with?

Klaviyo first, by a wide margin, and HubSpot for B2B lifecycle and marketing automation. The strategy layer travels between platforms: audience research, segmentation, split testing, send-time and frequency optimisation and honest reporting look much the same wherever they are executed. The platform-specific build is where the depth matters, and that is Klaviyo.

Do you work with brands outside ecommerce?

Some, on the search and AI-visibility side. B2B SaaS in particular, where the GEO work translates almost directly. The Klaviyo work is ecommerce by nature, because the flows depend on product and order events.

Where are you based and which hours do you work?

Mohali, India, working US hours. Most clients are in the United States and the overlap is deliberate rather than occasional.

Next step

Bring the account. I will tell you what I would change first.

Thirty minutes, no deck, no pitch. If it is not a fit I will say so on the call rather than after the invoice.