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Work History
Education
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Certificates and Awards
Clientele
Skills
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Mahesh Notani

Mahesh Notani

Search Engine Optimization Professional

Summary

A seasoned SEO professional with 8+ years of hands-on experience across different business verticals & pre-sales including 5+ years as a lead. Bringing in advanced SEO expertise with effective delivery of broad milestones to achieve search KPIs for clients across B2B, B2C & SaaS, Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industries.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Campaign Management Lead - SEO

Indegene Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
03.2021 - Current

Responsibilities
• Formulate digital strategies for key accounts in Pharmaceutical and Healthcare sector in European markets
• Create and implement SEO strategies for brand, corporate, HCP and information websites across geolocations for Pharma clients
• End to end client management, communication and delivery along with operating a team of 5+ SEO professionals
• Work on multi-million dollar presales pitches with aimed at SEO business expansion


Key Achievements
• Delivered SEO strategies for 6+ clients with close to 1 million USD in revenue
• Instrumental in getting 4+ SEO clients on board
• Executed Off page strategies for clients with up-to date link building techniques
• Solved technical infrastructure and eliminated indexability roadblocks for European markets in coordination with MLR and development teams
• Hired and trained 8+ SEO professionals in the SEO team

Associate Manager - SEO

FCB INDIA
Mumbai
05.2018 - 03.2021

Responsibilities
• Lead SEO Operations for FCB India, collaborate with Digital Head, VP, and cross functional teams on multi service digital pitches, and strategize business expansion
• Lead a team of 3 SEO specialists and contribute to their development and career progress
• Plan, test and execute SEO strategies including keyword research, on-page optimization, technical site audits, local, international, and multilingual SEO
• Finalize and track SEO metrics, KPIs, and optimization strategies for clients
• Develop and articulate business cases for SEO investment tying results to measurable KPIs including revenue, conversions, keyword ranking, organic traffic, and brand discovery


Key Achievements

• Instrumental in acquiring SEO mandate for 15+ SEO clients across Insurance, Healthcare, Airline and Automobile categories
• Driving an annual revenue upwards of ₹70 lacs for the agency
• A babies & toddler product website grew by 9X & 3X in organic traffic over two years by creating & optimizing 150+ content pieces, organic contributed 70% to the website revenue (200+ keywords ranking for featured snippets on Google SERP)
• Achieved and maintained 1st-page rankings for a leading life insurance brands' majority content catalogue, organic traffic grew by 4.5X

Digital Marketing Consultant

Advice Engineer Educational Services
New Delhi
02.2017 - 02.2018

Responsibilities
• Curate most suitable SEO strategies for easy crawling, indexing and discovery of content across locations for Advice Engineer
• Understand the technical infrastructure and challenges of Advice engineer website and be able to work with developers to eliminate roadblocks
• Setup SOPs and frameworks for future search operations


Key Achievements
• Improved organic visibility by 3X over 7 months
• Derived actionable insights for 10+ campaigns through insightful reports

Senior Analyst - SEO

RankUno Interactive Technologies Pvt. Ltd
Pune
01.2016 - 12.2016

Responsibilities

  • Identify industry trends and perform competitor analysis to deliver topical content strategies for Infosys' multiple service segments
  • Create event-based optimization campaigns to drive traffic to conference & event landing pages, measure leads and registrations through multiple tracking avenues

Key Achievements

  • Achieved first page ranking footprint for 10+ service segment keywords of Infosys (Collectively ranked 80+ keywords in Top 10)
  • Played a pivotal role in creating content development frameworks for cloud computing and IoT segments

Assistant Project Manager - SEO

Performincs Convonix
Mumbai
10.2014 - 11.2015

Responsibilities

  • Carry out business analysis to identify KPIs for client websites to measure organic performance
  • Perform keyword research, on-page & technical audits for 8+ International domains and implement recommendations through content management systems like WordPress, Magento, Sitecore

Key Achievements

  • Achieved at least 2X traffic growth with 60% non-brand traffic share for 6+ Clients
  • Achieved first page ranking footprint for 20+ conversion keywords for a financial advisory startup

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

SIES GST
Navi Mumbai, India
08.2010 - 08.2014

SEO Tools

On/Off Page & Technical SEO - SEMRush, SimilarWeb, Moz, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, SurferSEO & Majestic

Analytics - Google Analytics 360, Google Search Console & Adobe Analytics

Keyword Analysis - Keyword Planner, Uber Suggest, Answer the Public, AlsoAsked & KeywordInsights



Certificates and Awards

  • Digies Digital Awards 2019: Best SEO Campaign, DG+ Awards 2020: Best Use of Search, IAMAI Indian Digital Awards: Best SEO Campaign
  • Advanced Google Analytics, Tag Manager, Mobile SEO by Google, HubSpot SEO & Content Marketing, SEO Link Building, International and Local SEO by LinkedIn Learning

Clientele

  • Mahindra Commercial Vehicles Business Unit (5 Websites), Infosys, GoAir, Apollo Hospitals, Huggies India, Tata AIA Life Insurance, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, Tata Structura, Skybags, VIP, Carlton & Caprese Bags
  • BMS, Takeda, Boehringer Ingelheim and MundiPharma

Skills

  • SEO Project Management - Develop SEO Audits, Setting & Measuring SEO goals, and Performance reporting
  • Technical SEO - HTML, CSS, JavaScript SEO, Website Migration, Page Speed Optimization and Internal Linking
  • Content Management Systems - WordPress, Sitecore, Magento, etc.
  • Local/International/Multilingual SEO, SaaS SEO
  • Keyword analysis, content strategy, planning and execution
  • E-E-A-T & YMYL analysis
  • Google update recovery
  • Off page optimization & link building

Timeline

Campaign Management Lead - SEO

Indegene Pvt Ltd
03.2021 - Current

Associate Manager - SEO

FCB INDIA
05.2018 - 03.2021

Digital Marketing Consultant

Advice Engineer Educational Services
02.2017 - 02.2018

Senior Analyst - SEO

RankUno Interactive Technologies Pvt. Ltd
01.2016 - 12.2016

Assistant Project Manager - SEO

Performincs Convonix
10.2014 - 11.2015

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

SIES GST
08.2010 - 08.2014
Mahesh NotaniSearch Engine Optimization Professional