Vanesha G Darla, Marketing Expert in New York, NY, United States
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Vanesha G Darla

Verified Expert  in Marketing

Marketing Expert

Location
New York, NY, United States
Toptal Member Since
May 23, 2023

Vanesha is a highly experienced SEO expert with 8+ years of experience. She's a freelancer and CMO of a small SEO firm. She has an in-depth understanding of search engine algorithms and has helped numerous clients achieve high rankings on major search engines. She's skilled in all SEO optimization techniques and specializes in SaaS and Your Money or Your Life SEO. Vanesha stays current with the latest industry trends and constantly refines her strategies to deliver the best client results.

Project Highlights

Fintech SEO Strategy and Implementation
Led the strategy that resulted in the product sub-folder traffic growing from 14,000 organic visits to 48,000 visits per month in 12 months.
SaaS Core Project
Won page-one rankings for nine niche SaaS head terms prioritized by the C-suite executive team for the business. The product landing page revenue was over $5 million in ARR.
Content Planning For Healthcare Client
Developed a 12-month editorial calendar for healthcare clients to cover 50 medical conditions in under two months.

Expertise

Work Experience

Senior SEO Specialist

2021 - 2023
ActiveCampaign
  • Managed the link-building team, which drove over 150 links to priority product pages and resulted in over $2 million in ARR.
  • Led cross-departmental SEO content collaborations to support nine product lines.
  • Developed technical SEO redirect maps to support the site migration of 2,000 pages. The technical fixes resulted in a 10% increase in growth.
  • Leveraged multiple SEO tools and website crawlers, such as Screaming Frog.

Senior SEO Associate | Manager

2021 - 2021
Bankrate
  • Led the SEO content strategy for 11 investing product lines, winning over 20 bottom-funnel competitive investing head terms (transactional keywords with a monthly search volume of over 10,000) against sites like MoneyUS, Investopedia, and NerdWallet.
  • Developed editorial content briefs regularly and directly implemented on-page copy optimizations into WordPress.
  • Supported the development of 5+ outreach campaigns to garner high-quality backlinks each month.
  • Leveraged multiple SEO tools and website crawlers, such as Screaming Frog.

Senior Organic Search Manager

2019 - 2021
NYC
  • Developed SEO organic strategies and took ownership of the organic search channel.
  • Managed the paid search team and paid search campaigns with vendor partners.
  • Delivered redirect maps, sitemaps, and technical SEO support documents.
  • Leveraged multiple SEO tools and website crawlers, such as Screaming Frog.

Fintech SEO Strategy and Implementation

Led the strategy that resulted in the product sub-folder traffic growing from 14,000 organic visits to 48,000 visits per month in 12 months.

I worked with a finance business to develop an SEO strategy for specific products. We researched the target audience, industry trends, and competition to create a data-driven keyword and content strategy. We then produced optimized landing pages and articles. We were challenged to be as lean as possible with content inventory and prioritize bottom-funnel transactional keywords.

The strategy significantly improved traffic, engagement, and lead generation. This project showcases a well-planned and executed content calendar, keyword research, and overall data-driven SEO strategy, which increased online visibility, attracted targeted traffic, and generated leads.

SaaS Core Project

Won page-one rankings for nine niche SaaS head terms prioritized by the C-suite executive team for the business. The product landing page revenue was over $5 million in ARR.

I developed a successful SEO strategy targeting head terms using content and backlinks. We researched the competition to identify long-tail keywords to support each head term. We produced high-quality niche content optimized for those keywords and obtained backlinks through outreach and relationship building.

The strategy resulted in significant improvements in the quality of users, leading to increased business growth. The project showcased how an effective combination of content creation and backlink acquisition can yield excellent SEO, traffic, and revenue results.

Content Planning For Healthcare Client

Developed a 12-month editorial calendar for healthcare clients to cover 50 medical conditions in under two months.

The content calendar project involved the assessment of existing content, consolidation recommendations, and keyword research in supporting a newly created site section after migrating it into a new CMS system. The comprehensive plan laid out the roadmap to maintain and gain keyword rankings post-migration and increase website traffic from targeted healthcare audiences. The calendar included detailed plans for content creation, publication, and optimization. In addition, it was updated to reflect changes within the healthcare industry and trends.

Content Writer and SEO Strategist

https://www.renofi.com/

Developed SEO strategy and created blogs that helped the website performance go from -35% users month-over-month to +20% users month-over-month within four months.

I was contracted to help drive SEO maturity for a financial client. The website had experienced tremendous growth but suddenly began to decline. I was tasked with stopping decline trends and growing traffic.
2011 - 2015

Bachelor's Degree in Marketing

Temple University - Philadelphia, PA, USA

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