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Mahesh Notani

Search Engine Optimization Professional

Summary

As an SEO professional with over 8 years of expertise across diverse business verticals, including 5+ years in a leadership position, I possess a deep understanding of SEO strategy and execution. I have a consistent record of achieving search KPIs such as traffic growth, search visibility, and improved website performance in complex industries such as B2B, B2C, SaaS, Healthcare, and Pharma. In addition to my technical SEO, content strategy, and team management skills, I have a passion for staying up-to-date with the rapidly evolving landscape of SEO through newsletters and industry-leading search blogs. I also incorporate the latest automation techniques into my SEO practice, enabling me to deliver efficient and effective results.

Overview

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

Work History

Campaign Management Lead - SEO

Indegene Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
03.2021 - Current

Responsibilities

  • Lead global SEO initiatives for Pharma key accounts in EU, US, and UK markets, implementing technical and content SEO strategies in multiple languages
  • Heavily involved in site redesigns and QA, including redirection mapping, hreflang implementation, internal linking and solving canonical and duplicate content issues.
  • End-to-end client management, communication, and collaboration with cross functional teams, along with managing a team of 4+ SEO professionals
  • Informed in depth SEO insights for new clients to expand scope and upsell SEO services

Key Achievements

  • Delivered SEO strategies for 6+ clients with close to 1 million USD in revenue
  • Met aggressive deadlines to craft deliverables such as tech audits, keyword research, meta data/URL recommendations, competitive insights & content gap analysis
  • Identified technical issues at scale to eliminate indexability and crawlability roadblocks for clients across locations/languages in coordination with MLR and development teams
  • Trained 8+ SEO professionals in the SEO team, especially with new technical frameworks and automation techniques

Associate Manager - SEO

FCB INDIA
Mumbai
05.2018 - 03.2021

Responsibilities

  • Led SEO Operations from ground up with a team of 3 SEO specialists for FCB India in collaboration with Digital Head, VP, and cross- functional teams like technical, content and product/service
  • 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

  • Acquired SEO mandate for 15+ SEO clients across Insurance, Healthcare, Airline, and Automobile industries
  • A babies & toddler product website grew by 9X & 3X in organic traffic over two years by creating & optimizing150+ 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 brand’s majority content catalog; organic traffic grew by 4.5X

Digital Marketing Consultant

Advice Engineer Educational Services
New Delhi
02.2016 - 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 - 11.2014

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

Skills

 

  • SEO Project Management - Develop SEO Audits, Set and Measure SEO goals, and Performance reporting
  • Technical SEO - HTML, CSS, Indexing and Crawlability, Rendering JavaScript SEO, Website Migration, Page Speed Optimization, Crawl Log analysis and Internal Linking
  • SEO Automation - Automate SEO tasks using ChatGPT, APIs, and Regex
  • 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
  • On page, Image optimization & Schema markup
  • Off page optimization & link building

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

SEO Tools

On/Off Page - 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

Technical SEO - Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Keyword Planner, Rich Results test, Google trends, Page speed insights, Webpagetest and Chrome dev tools for JS & CSS including lighthouse.

International SEO - Merkle’s technicalseo.com for XML sitemaps, schema generation, hreflang testing, fetch and render, etc. Aleyda’s Hreflang generator tool.

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

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
02.2016 - 02.2018

Senior Analyst - SEO

RankUno Interactive Technologies Pvt. Ltd
01.2016 - 12.2016

Assistant Project Manager - SEO

Performincs Convonix
10.2014 - 11.2014

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

SIES GST
08.2010 - 08.2014

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Mahesh NotaniSearch Engine Optimization Professional