- Helped audience developers by encouraging others in sharing knowledge, experience, and practical advice by acting to bridge the gap between startups and established companies.
- Led up all the efforts, including editorial, product, and audience development for the site, and consulting efforts.
Vahe Arabian
About
Vahe Arabian has over ten years of experience as a SEO and content strategy specialist in Australia. His past roles were aligned in the startup phases of SEO companies, where he has played a vital role in shaping, contributing, and taking the initiative of developing processes and mentoring staff. He now helps publishers grow digital media properties using SEO & content strategy, with results.
Employment
- Was responsible for the SEO strategy formulation and contributed heavily to the growth of the online marketing campaigns.
- Determined the strategic direction of content campaigns for the company.
- Verified that these strategies are in line with the business’s overall goals and objectives in order to attract the anticipated social value.
- Conducted relevant SEO research on the business’s content and took a data-driven approach in the creation of audience profiles that in turn form the basis of SEO strategies.
Online Marketing Gurus is an Australia-based digital agency specializing in SEO, Adwords and social media advertising.
- Conducted keyword research to guide content teams and reviewed technical SEO issues and recommended fixes.
- Optimized website content, landing pages and paid search copies and directed off-page optimization projects.
- Gathered data and reported on traffic, rankings and other SEO aspects and worked with social media and PPC teams to optimize campaigns.
- Performed keyword research in coordination with client business objectives to optimize existing content and uncover new opportunities.
- Provided SEO analysis and recommendations in coordination with elements and structure of websites and web pages.
- Recommended and implemented strategies for content development in coordination with SEO goals – general and keyword specific.
Outsider Australia is a search engine marketing agency offering digital marketing services such as SEO, PPC advertising, social media marketing and landing page optimization.
- Prepared SEO documentation for client’s websites – best practice wireframe reviews for SEO website design, website audits, competitive analysis, external link analysis, metadata/content optimization, keyword research and Google places listing optimization.
- Developed reports on client’s rankings/traffic using organic dashboards.
- Researched new SEO tools and trends, i.e. Google Panda algorithm update impact and implications.
- Executed linking strategies for client websites – directory/article submissions, PR, PDF optimization, and syndication.
- Assisted in improving and developing SEO processes and procedures.
- Helped with social media observations reporting using Radian 6.
- Performed project task checklist review using Basecamp.
- Created a “Google Webmaster Tools” website review document template used for client reporting.
Ozzy Tyres is an automotive company providing wheels and tires online and Australia-wide.
- Benchmarked initial website traffic and SEO metrics.
- Visited the client regularly to discuss deliverables and provided regular project updates via email or phone.
- Coordinated website migration from a custom CMS to a WordPress CMS.
- Communicated with multiple freelance web developers involved in the project to ensure that the website was built in an SEO-friendly manner.
- Provided SEO best practice recommendations for WordPress. This meant providing developers with the necessary SEO extensions and reviewing the website development process. A custom extension was also created for the gallery.
- Performed keyword research and initial meta data and content optimization.
- Created and optimized Google places listings for their multiple stores.
- Delivered some SEO copywriting and managed website and image sitemap XML creation and submission to Google, Bing, and Yahoo Webmaster Tools.
- Developed Robots.txt file creation and provided initial training using WordPress for staff.
- Prepared on-page SEO analysis and recommendation documentation such as pre- website evaluation and search term reports.
- Crafting off-page SEO documentation- competitor analysis and analyzed web analytics dashboard reports using Google Analytics data.
- Performed industry research and documentation regarding search engine optimization, video optimization, profile optimization, social bookmarking, RSS syndication and local SEO practices.
- Managed and monitor database using Microsoft Access.
