What 18 years of search looks like when it's tied to revenue.
Revenue from organic traffic, audiences grown from scratch, and AI visibility work done in-house. Here is what I've shipped, with the numbers.
Highlights
The numbers
Across 100+ domains at Compado.
CompraMejor.es, entirely from organic traffic.
In nine months, for Onmeda.es.
Across nine Latin American markets at StubHub.
At Softonic, through AI and workflow automation.
On the AI visibility platform I built, Decoding.
Search tied to revenue
Where organic search paid the bills
$2M+ a year in organic revenue
As SEO Team Lead I owned SEO for 100+ domains, managed a team of 3 and led technical SEO with engineering, product, data and partnerships teams.
€0 → €400K in 18 months
I built CompraMejor.es entirely from organic traffic and owned the affiliate product end to end: strategy, SEO, development, and vendor and shareholder relations. I also launched sites in beauty and science, single-handedly.
Traffic +1,100% in a year
As Head of Content I led strategy for 3 software catalogs (2M+ apps, 17 languages) and 2 editorial sites, managing 3 content managers and 30+ external writers and editors. Automation with AI and workflows drove the growth, and turned the editorial sites from loss-making to €480K+ a year.
Six figures in year one
I launched a sponsored-content product with Adobe and Avast as clients.
+15% organic growth, year over year
I led SEO across 9 Latin American markets for a portfolio generating €500K a month, shipping the roadmap with product, content, catalog and engineering.
Audience growth
Building traffic from newsrooms to B2B
200K → 1M users in 9 months
I grew Onmeda.es, drove record traffic for Enfemenino.com, supported Onmeda.de and contributed to M&A activity.
5th → 3rd among Spain's top news sites
I led SEO and digital strategy across Spain, US and LATAM properties and helped launch the mobile version, with record organic traffic.
Record organic traffic
As SEO Lead, reporting to the MSN EMEA SEO Lead, I trained journalists and editorial teams on SEO best practices.
0 → 100K monthly visits
As CMO I delivered SEO and content strategy for B2B clients including Adidas, Omio and GetYourGuide, and grew the agency's own website from zero.
AI search and founding
The work I'm doing now
AI visibility, in-house
I lead SEO, content and AI search optimization, improving the AI visibility of CockroachDB and Continuum across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Mode and Overviews, with product marketing, engineers, sales, brand, social and legal.
70 users on my own AI visibility platform
I built a platform that tracked prompts, brand mentions and citations across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and other models, and ran go-to-market end to end. I wound it down as the market consolidated around heavily funded competitors.
300K+ students
I built and scaled an interactive SQL training course, then sold it to Beekeeper Studio.
What this means for you
The same playbook, aimed at your pipeline
Start with AI search visibility, SEO strategy or technical SEO, or see the industries I work with.
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No pitch deck, and no retainer to sign up front. If it's not a fit, I'll tell you.
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