Revolution... has anyone tried this??

OOps -- no, Frontline is *not* systemic.  Neither Frontline nor Advantage are (perhaps very very very minutely but Frontline pools in the hair follicles and skin pores and Advantage crystalizes on the skin) but Revolution is designed to go into the body and STAY there.  Very very different.
 
I use Frontline (Frontline Plus actually this time because it was all I could get) but will not use Revolution.  And in order for Revolution to 'kill' anything that parasite, flea or tick or whatever has to BITE the dog!!  Frontline and Advantage kill on contact. 

Im still searching for the perfect tick treatment... I use Frontline Plus and the tick still attach themselves and then die and stay attached and I find myself still taking them off. The vet told me that is the only way the tick can get the Frontline in it system to die.
Okay.... so what about lymes disease? I do get my dogs vacinated for it...but the ticks still have to bite the dogs attach and die within 24 hours. They do not repel ticks only a tick collar will repel from what my vet told me. I called and talked to them about this...
They don't sell Advantix anymore cause she said its worthless... well It never worked for my dogs when I tried it so I never used it again.
 
Were I live we have alot of ticks.... cause we have alot of dear and wildlife on our property.... so I have to use Frontline plus all year round which I hate doing...
 
 

Frontline is a lot less damaging than Revolution. 
 
In order for ticks to transmit tickborne disease, they have to FEED.  Not just attach, but actively be feeding (literally for the tick's body begin to swell).  The Frontline transmits into the 'mouthparts' as the tick attaches -- it doesn't kill from contact with the dog's blood because Frontline doesn't go into the bloodstream.  It's just that the tick's outer body is SO armored that it has to get into the tick via the mouthparts.  But that's why the tick doesn't ever get engorged when the dog has Frontline on -- because it kills the tick before it can feed.
 
Honestly I think you're doing the best you can do unless you do something to your yard to treat it for ticks which is tough.
 
Deer ticks are a problem -- have you tried pouring ammonia around the permeter of your house and property?  To a deer, coon or any wild animal that's like saying "SOME BIG HUGE THING LIVES HERE". 
 
The other thing my mother has done that works well is to rip up sheets of Bounce fabric softener (the dryer sheets?) into strips about 1/2" wide  and tie those on bushes and vegitation -- for some reason the deer hate it and avoid it.  My mother has always complained where she lives she spends more time cleaning deer poop out of the yard than anything else!!