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I'm an SEO consultant. I've been working in SEO and content marketing for nearly 10 years. In that time, I've worked with clients like Trustpilot, Calm, Culture Amp, Akamai and LiveRamp, as well as spending time in-house for fast-growing tech startups.

Typically, I work with startups and small business, mostly in the SaaS and B2B tech spaces.

I'm also highly experienced in e-commerce SEO, having led complex technical projects for the likes of Sports Direct, Specsavers and IcelandAir.

SEO is a long-term play, but startups need rapid results. And that's why my SEO strategies focus on low-hanging fruit (whether that's technical fixes or optimising your existing content), untapped pockets of search demand, innovative content strategies and scalable programmatic approaches.

Work with me, and you'll be generating traffic and outflanking your deeper-pocketed competitors within weeks, not years.

As well as defining your long-term SEO strategy, I'll help you implement it. Many good SEO strategies have gathered dust in the bowels of some Google Drive, all because the internal resources weren’t there to implement it.

So, whether that's uploading content, tweaking your CMS setup or implementing small technical fixes, I'll provide hands-on, sleeves-rolled-up support — not just the high-level consultancy stuff.

As well as being an SEO strategist, I'm also a skilled content writer, with a long track record of creating successful, search-focused content. And, for particularly ambitious content marketing programmes, I have an extensive network of B2B-specialising copywriters.

I'm based in London, but I have as much experience working with clients in the US — I've also done plenty of work with clients in Canada and Australia.

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I'm an SEO consultant. I've been working in SEO and content marketing for nearly 10 years. In that time, I've worked with clients like Trustpilot, Calm, Culture Amp, Akamai and LiveRamp, as well as spending time in-house for fast-growing tech startups.

Typically, I work with startups and small business, mostly in the SaaS and B2B tech spaces.

I'm also highly experienced in e-commerce SEO, having led complex technical projects for the likes of Sports Direct, Specsavers and IcelandAir.

SEO is a long-term play, but startups need rapid results. And that's why my SEO strategies focus on low-hanging fruit (whether that's technical fixes or optimising your existing content), untapped pockets of search demand, innovative content strategies and scalable programmatic approaches.

Work with me, and you'll be generating traffic and outflanking your deeper-pocketed competitors within weeks, not years.

As well as defining your long-term SEO strategy, I'll help you implement it. Many good SEO strategies have gathered dust in the bowels of some Google Drive, all because the internal resources weren’t there to implement it.

So, whether that's uploading content, tweaking your CMS setup or implementing small technical fixes, I'll provide hands-on, sleeves-rolled-up support — not just the high-level consultancy stuff.

As well as being an SEO strategist, I'm also a skilled content writer, with a long track record of creating successful, search-focused content. And, for particularly ambitious content marketing programmes, I have an extensive network of B2B-specialising copywriters.

I'm based in London, but I have as much experience working with clients in the US — I've also done plenty of work with clients in Canada and Australia.

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Worked With

• Calm
• Trustpilot
• Culture Amp
• LiveRamp
• Akamai
• Velocity Partners
• Specsavers
• Sports Direct
• Icelandair
• LoveCrafts

Case Studies

Specialty Areas

SEO
Content SEO
Technical SEO

Vertical Experience

Fintech
Ecommerce
Personal Finance
Consumer
SaaS
B2B
Financial Services
B2B Saas
Finance
Fintech SaaS
B2B Software
B2B Tech

Tools

SEMRush
Ahrefs
Screaming Frog
Frase
Excel
SQL
Google Analytics
Google Search Console
Google Tag Manager

Skills

Keyword Research
Content Strategy
Technical SEO
Copywriting
Analytics
SEO Backlinks
Website Architecture & Customer Flows
CMS Management

Recent Roles

Senior SEO Consultant

Builtvisible | 2022

Head of SEO

Velocity Partners | 2021- 2022

SEO & Content Manager

Cuvva | 2019- 2021

Freelance SEO

Freelance | 2018- 2019

SEO Content Specialist

Search Laboratory | 2018- 2018

SEO & Content Executive

Leeds Building Society | 2016- 2018

Web Content Writer

Diabetes.co.uk | 2014- 2016

Certifications

Languages

English

Education

University of Leeds
MBA Arts, Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies
Keele University
BA Arts, English and American Literature

Case Studies

285%
increase in organic traffic

Growing organic traffic for Cuvva, a fast-growing insurance startup

285% increase in organic traffic

Client Verified

I worked with Cuvva to migrate their website to React app, move to a headless, GitHub-based CMS, and to increase traffic with a comprehensive content strategy. Between February 2019 and December 2020, organic traffic increased by 285%.

How we did it

- Led the SEO for a migration from WordPress to a React app with a headless, GitHub-based CMS - Analysed existing performance to identify pockets of "topical authority" - Carried out a comprehensive keyword research programme - Clustered keywords based on search intent, and mapped these to a pillar-based content calendar - Wrote detailed briefs for writers based on semantic analysis for target queries - Implemented an agile reporting framework based on topic growth and reallocated resources towards the most promising content themes - Worked with front-end engineering team to build "SEO products", surfacing internal data via an API to target high-volume search queries

What clients are saying

"Kurt is excellent at what he does and couldn't recommend him highly enough."
Loren Gould, Marketing Director at Cuvva
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