Vanesha G Darla
Verified Expert in Marketing
Marketing Expert
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
Expertise
- Google Analytics
- Google SEO
- Google Search Console
- Link Building
- Marketing
- SEO Audits
- SEO Content
Work Experience
Senior SEO Specialist
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
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
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.
Project History
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.
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.
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.
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.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Marketing
Temple University - Philadelphia, PA, USA
Skills
Core
Marketing, Google SEO, SEO Audits, On-page SEO, SEO Tools, SEO Keyword Research, Online Marketing, SEO Backlinking, Lead Generation, Link Building, SEO Content, Content, Copywriting, Performance Marketing
Technical
Google Search Console
Platforms & Tools
Google Analytics, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, Moz, Google Data Studio
Other
Semrush, Google Docs, Seos, Reporting, Website Traffic, Strategy, Microsoft Power BI, Data Management, Big Data, WordPress, Revenue Optimization, Paid Search, Website Audits, Technical SEO, Sitemaps
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