Vladimir Shumilov
SEO & Content Strategist | Multilingual · Technical · GEO
Built a charity art auction site for MoMA Tbilisi in one week.
50 seats, three languages, zero plugin budget. The registration flow captures contacts before payment, not after -- so the organizer has a working guest list even if someone drops off before paying.
Shopify for the...
61% of agencies outsource SEO.
The ones who do grow 23% faster.
Here's the math:
In-house SEO team: $350,000–$600,000/year.
Hiring, tools, management overhead.
White-label partner: $72,000–$216,000/year.
Same deliverables. None of the overhead.
Standard markup: 2–3×.
A $400/month...
When a client says "we need SEO" -- what do they actually mean?
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Your client loves the site. Three months later, they're asking why no one is finding it.
Most designers I talk to have been in this room at least once.
The work was good. The problem was never the design - it was the layer underneath it. Semantic structure. Keyword architecture....
SEO takes time. Everyone knows that.
But there's a part of the system that starts working in weeks, not months.
External publications on industry platforms -- the ones with real audiences and real authority -- bring targeted readers to your site before your own pages have climbed...
