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SEROKUZE

Senior SEO Consultant · 9+ years in search

I run search for companies where the buying decision starts in a SERP: technical audits, indexation architecture, content systems and link building — from the first crawl to the release that fixes it.

Serhii Kuzmenko, senior SEO consultant, portrait
9+ years in search
40+ projects audited
300k+ monthly organic sessions grown
12+ niches, from SaaS to retail

Nine years of doing this in one place.

I started in search in 2017 on small commercial sites, and spent the years since moving between very different categories: B2B SaaS, e-commerce and marketplaces, cloud and hosting, cybersecurity, fintech and large content projects. More than 40 projects audited; several of them passed a few hundred thousand organic sessions a month while I owned search.

The work is diagnosis first. Server logs, a full crawl, Search Console query-by-page data and rank history — before any opinion about strategy. Then a sequence: what to fix this month, what belongs to this quarter, and what to deliberately ignore.

I read and write code, which is why my tickets go into a sprint without a second meeting: exact selectors, before-and-after markup, acceptance criteria. Most of my work ships through someone else's developers, in English, Ukrainian or German.

Based in Ukraine · working US & EU hours
Languages English, Ukrainian, German
Focus Technical SEO, architecture, AI search
Industries 12+ — SaaS to retail
Engagements Audit & strategy, or full management
Writing Field notes on this blog and LinkedIn

How I got here

Nine years, four categories and one habit that did not change: read the data before forming an opinion.

2017 Where it started

Small commercial sites, first crawls

One person on the whole of search: crawl, texts, links, reporting. Useful in one specific way — nothing could be delegated, so every part of the job had to be understood rather than trusted.

Servers.com

Cloud and bare-metal infrastructure

Search in a category where the buyer is an engineer and the catalogue runs to thousands of location, configuration and service URLs. Technical audits, indexation architecture and internal linking built around how infrastructure is actually searched for.

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Software and B2B SaaS

Product and comparison pages in crowded software SERPs, cluster maps for a large content library, and the international versions that come with selling the same product in several markets.

Independent

Consulting: audit, architecture, ownership

Since then: over 40 audited projects across SaaS, e-commerce and marketplaces, cloud and hosting, cybersecurity, fintech and media. Either an audit with a plan, or full ownership of search alongside the client's own team.

method How I work

Diagnosis, sequence, tickets that ship

Logs, a full crawl, Search Console query-by-page data and rank history first. Then a sequence — this month, this quarter, and what to deliberately ignore. Every recommendation leaves as a ticket a developer can implement without a second meeting.

Certificates

Each card opens the issuer's public verification page.

What I am actually hired for

01

Technical SEO

Crawl, index and render. Log-file analysis, crawl-budget routing, Core Web Vitals, JS rendering.

02

Architecture

Information architecture and internal linking built around how a category is searched, not how the CMS is organised.

03

Content systems

Cluster maps, briefs writers can use, refresh lists for pages one push away from page one.

04

Link building

Anchor planning, prospect vetting, digital-PR outreach and earned placements that survive a core update.

05

AI search

Entity clarity and structured data so the product is the answer an AI engine cites rather than a footnote.

06

Migrations & international

Redirect maps, staging crawls, hreflang at tens of thousands of URLs, and the monitoring that keeps rankings intact.

Ahrefs Semrush Serpstat SimilarWeb Screaming Frog Netpeak Spider Search Console GA4 Looker Studio BigQuery CrUX Python / regex Wayback Machine

The layers this rests on, with the reasoning and the toolstack behind each decision, are on the home page: how the work lands · toolstack

Articles by SEROKUZE

11 published
technical Jul 2026

Crawl budget is a routing problem, not a quota

Why faceted navigation quietly eats a quarter of your indexation — and the log-file workflow that proves it to a sceptical engineering team.

9 min read
ai search Jun 2026

What LLMs actually cite from a SaaS website

A study of 40 B2B products: which page types get quoted in AI answers and which get paraphrased into nothing.

12 min read
process May 2026

The SEO ticket developers don't reject

Anatomy of a spec that passes sprint planning: selectors, acceptance criteria, and a rollback plan.

7 min read
technical Apr 2026

Rendering budgets: when SSR stops paying for itself

Measuring what Googlebot actually renders on a JS-heavy hosting site — and where hydration costs indexation.

10 min read
strategy Mar 2026

Category pages for products nobody searches for yet

Demand creation in infrastructure niches: building the query before the query exists.

8 min read
technical Feb 2026

hreflang at 40,000 URLs without a spreadsheet

A generation pipeline that survives releases, plus the four errors that break clusters silently.

11 min read
links Jan 2026

Link acquisition that survives a core update

What earned placements in technical media have in common — and what the outreach template gets wrong.

9 min read
technical Dec 2025

Core Web Vitals on a dashboard nobody can lazy-load

INP on authenticated app screens: what actually moved the metric on a 900-component console.

10 min read
ai search Nov 2025

Entities before keywords: modelling a product catalogue

How an internal entity graph changed which pages answer engines treat as the canonical source.

8 min read
process Oct 2025

Reporting SEO to a CFO without traffic charts

Pipeline-linked metrics that survive a budget review, and the three vanity numbers to drop.

6 min read
strategy Sep 2025

Migrating 40,000 URLs during a rebrand

The redirect map, the staging crawl, and the two weeks of monitoring that keep rankings intact.

13 min read
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