Najmus Sayadat
Senior SEO Growth Manager | Technical SEO | GEO / AEO Lead
Professional Summary
Senior SEO leader with 9+ years of experience helping businesses grow through search. Strong background in technical SEO, programmatic SEO, content strategy, and team leadership. Experienced across in-house and agency roles — from scaling a travel-tech platform to 150K monthly visits and an EV marketplace to 75K in 9 months, to managing SEO delivery for 20+ enterprise accounts.
Core Skills
Crawl Budget Optimisation, Core Web Vitals, Schema.org (JSON-LD), Log Analysis, Site Migrations, Programmatic Page Architecture.
AI Citation Tracking (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity), Answer-First Content, Entity Graphs, Structured Data.
GA4, Google Search Console, Looker Studio, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, SEMrush.
Team building (up to 15 members), cross-functional alignment, client management, training, OKR reporting.
Professional Experience
SEO Lead — Ecozaar (Autovert)
- Owned the full organic growth plan for an EV and solar marketplace — from keyword research to technical SEO to content.
- Grew monthly organic sessions from near zero to 75,000 in 9 months through programmatic pages, topic clusters, and technical fixes.
- Built programmatic landing pages for 1,000+ local searches (EV showrooms, charging stations, solar installers by city).
- Recovered the site after a major hack that generated 3 million spam pages — restored traffic from 40K back to 75K.
- Tracked GEO visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity — monitoring 2,000 queries in Ahrefs.
- Led a cross-functional team of 5 across content, frontend development, and analytics.
Associate Vice President – SEO — Walnut Folks Group / Intent Farm
- Led SEO strategy and delivery for 20+ enterprise client accounts across Travel, EdTech, E-Commerce, B2B, and SaaS.
- Built SEO plans using competitor research, keyword gap analysis, and content opportunity mapping.
- Managed and mentored a 15-person team of SEO specialists, content strategists, and outreach coordinators.
- Ran twice-monthly training sessions and built shared audit checklists to improve delivery quality across the team.
SEO Manager — Trident Media Works
- Grew an iGaming platform's monthly organic traffic from 900K to 1.1M visits (+23%) through technical fixes and content improvements.
- Managed and trained a team of 5 SEO specialists to maintain consistent quality.
- Built link acquisition through outreach, guest posts, and content partnerships.
SEO Team Lead — Moshi Moshi
- Built and led a 10-person SEO and content team across 15+ brand accounts.
- Delivered 200% organic traffic and lead growth for a manufacturing client through keyword strategy and content planning.
- Handled site migrations, malware recovery, and client reporting across multiple industries.
SEO Manager / SEO Executive — Blak Mammoth & DOT Mappers
- Hands-on keyword research, on-page optimisation, link building, technical audits, and rank tracking. Recovered sites from Google penalties.
Key Achievements
- Scaled a travel-tech platform from 7K to 150K monthly organic visits through country-level SEO (Teleport).
- Grew an online chess store from 53K to 123K monthly visits (+132%) via international SEO (Royal Chess Mall).
- Grew an EV marketplace from 0 to 75K monthly organic visits in 9 months via programmatic SEO (Ecozaar).
- Recovered a domain after a 3-million spam page hack — restored traffic from 40K back to 75K monthly visits (Ecozaar).
- Grew an EdTech brand from 52K to 92K monthly visits (+77%) in a competitive market (AAFT Online).
- Grew an iGaming platform from 900K to 1.1M monthly visits (+23%) (Trident Media Works).
- Delivered 200% organic traffic and lead growth for a manufacturing brand (Moshi Moshi).
- Monitored AI search citations across ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity — 2,000 queries tracked in Ahrefs Brand Radar.
Education
- MBA, Marketing & Finance — Bangalore University (2014–2016)
- BBM, Marketing — Bangalore University (2011–2014)