About Rakesh

I’m the person you’ll actually talk to, not a salesperson.

Ten years of hands-on SEO, AI search and paid media for SaaS, B2B and local businesses across the US, UK, Europe and the Gulf. Based in Chandigarh, India. No layers between you and the person leading your work.

Rakesh Kumar Top Rated on Upwork96% job success

Rakesh Kumar, SEO consultant. Chandigarh, India.

  • 10+Years, hands on
  • 2,400+Keywords ranked
  • 40K+Monthly visitors generated
  • Based inChandigarh, India
  • Clients inUS, UK, Europe, Gulf
  • Hours overlapEuropean mornings, US afternoons
  • Leads the workMe, personally
  • CoversSEO, Local, AI SEO, AEO, GEO, PPC, SMM
The story

One question, ten years.

Why does one business get discovered while an equally good one gets overlooked? That question got me into search, and ten years later it is still the whole job.

I started when SEO was mostly technical fixes and links. I stayed as it became content, then local, then paid, and now AI answers. The tools changed every couple of years. The question did not, and neither did the way I work: your business first, your customers, your competitors, your current numbers. Then the opportunities, in order of impact. Copy-paste strategies are how budgets get wasted, so I do not use them.

I stay hands-on by design: the person who understands your site should be the person deciding what happens to it. Two SaaS companies and a cleaning business in Dubai are on the case studies page because that is what it looks like when the same person leads the work for six months.

How I think about this work

A few things I actually believe.

01

Tactics are the easy part.

Anyone can run a technical audit. The hard part, and the part that matters, is knowing which fixes are worth doing first, and doing them before the report is written.

02

Rankings are not the goal.

A #1 ranking that does not produce a demo, a call or a customer is not a win. It is a vanity metric with good PR. Enquiries and revenue are the scoreboard.

03

Nobody can guarantee Google.

Anyone promising guaranteed rankings, traffic or AI placements is not being straight with you. I will not be either. I commit to the work, the plan and honest reporting.

04

You should always know what is happening.

Every change is visible on your site. Every report starts with what came in. Every account stays in your name. If something did not work, you hear it from me first.

Free growth analysis

Want my read on your site?

Send the URL. I look at it personally and reply with what I would fix first. No pitch deck.

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In their words

Don’t take it from me. Take it from them.

Numbers are easy to put on a page. A client on camera, saying what changed, is not. Press play.

See the numbers behind the work
  • Tom Dwyer Client testimonial
I work best with
  • SaaS and B2B companies that want pipeline from search, not a traffic chart.
  • Local businesses that want the phone to ring from the map, and will ask customers for reviews.
  • Founders and owners who want a straight answer, even when it is "do not spend on this yet".
  • Teams who will ship the changes, or let me.
Probably not for you if
  • You want guaranteed rankings by a date. Nobody honest can give you that.
  • You want a large team, a project manager and a slide deck every month.
  • You are choosing on the lowest quote. Cheap SEO is the expensive kind.
  • You want someone who only says yes.
Credentials

What is actually verified.

Certifications are the floor, not the pitch. The case studies above are the ceiling.

  • Google Analytics IQ
  • Google Ads Display Certification
  • Google Apps Certification
  • HubSpot Inbound Certification
  • HubSpot Academy: AEO Fundamentals
  • SEO II Certification
  • LinkedIn Marketing Solutions Fundamentals
  • Top Rated on Upwork, 96% job success

If any of that sounds like your situation, send me the site. If it does not, the articles are free and written to be used without me.

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