Burak Kulaksız

Burak Kulaksız

SEO Manager

I help content-heavy websites grow through technical SEO, content strategy and AI search.

Ankara, Türkiye. Open to remote work and relocation.

About

I've been working in SEO since 2020, mostly on sites where organic traffic is the business: crypto and finance publishers, e-commerce brands and iGaming affiliates, in more than ten languages.

At Clickout Media I ran the Turkish editions of CryptoNews, 99Bitcoins and ICOBench with a team of seven writers and editors. After that I ran international SEO for iGaming affiliate sites at Adnixa, worked on Philips and Mr Porter through Croud, and built my own stock analysis site, borsaatlas.com, on a brand-new domain.

Most of my week goes into technical SEO, content strategy, link building and GEO. I write Python for the repetitive parts, which leaves more time for the decisions that move results. I'm now looking for my next SEO Manager or GEO role.

Experience

Nov 2025 – Apr 2026

SEO Manager · Adnixa

Ran international SEO for iGaming affiliate sites in markets including Sweden, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. Relaunched expired domains, planned more than 5,000 backlinks, took brand-protection sites to positions 1–2 and kept migrations under 10% traffic loss.

  • International SEO
  • Link building
  • Migrations
  • Python

Jan 2025 – Jun 2026

Turkey SEO Manager, freelance · Croud

Optimized more than 1,000 product and category pages on philips.com.tr for Versuni, wrote on-page recommendations for 328 Mr Porter pages, and ran SEO and Google Ads in Türkiye for clients including Honda Marine and Amazon Prime.

  • E-commerce SEO
  • Google Ads
  • Agency

Dec 2023 – Oct 2025

SEO Manager (Türkiye) · Clickout Media

Joined as SEO specialist and editor, promoted to SEO Manager in September 2024. Led seven writers and editors and owned the Turkish content strategy for CryptoNews, 99Bitcoins and Business 2 Community; launched ICOBench, CoinDataFlow and CryptoDnes in Turkish. By September 2025 three of the sites reached 450K+ monthly organic visits combined.

  • Content strategy
  • Team lead
  • News SEO
  • YMYL

Jan 2023 – now

Founder & SEO Lead · ChainVerse Media

A small SEO and web studio: SEO, websites and content for corporate clients such as Beeco, plus our own publications.

Oct 2022 – Dec 2023

SEO Content Writer · Finixio

Wrote SEO-focused Turkish news, guides and analysis on crypto and finance.

Jun 2020 – Dec 2022

Junior SEO & Content Specialist, part-time · inoweb

Content, WordPress updates and on-page SEO for client sites while studying at METU.

View the full CV

Selected work

borsaatlas.com

Own project, Turkish stock analysis

Started on a new domain in a YMYL finance niche and grown to 3,100+ pages. From January to July 2026 it earned 2.8M impressions and 91K+ clicks in Search Console, with 873 of its top 1,000 queries in the top 10. I also brought load time down from 4 seconds to 0.8.

Turkish crypto publishing

My author pages: CryptoNews TR, Business 2 Community TR

Also: 99Bitcoins TR, ICOBench TR, CoinDataFlow TR

Keyword plans, briefs and editing for a 20,000+ page network. One 99Bitcoins analysis brought in 11,500+ clicks in three days at an average position of 1.1, and ICOBench TR passed 106K monthly visits in November 2025.

Philips Türkiye

Through Croud, for Versuni

Keyword mapping, meta, H1s, product copy and internal links across 1,000+ product and category pages, some in categories searched up to 300K times a month.

AI in my work

AI is a daily part of how I work. For borsaatlas.com I built a Python tool that drafts and SEO-optimizes articles with the Gemini API, together with crawlers that collect keyword and competitor data. At Adnixa I used Python to automate routine content and link tasks across the portfolio, and tracked AI share of voice next to rankings.

I also optimize for AI search itself. More than 1,000 borsaatlas.com pages are cited as sources in Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, and daily impressions from those answers roughly tripled between late May and July 2026.

  • Python
  • Gemini API
  • Crawlers
  • GEO
  • AI Overviews

Contact

The easiest way to reach me is [email protected].

You can also find me on LinkedIn.