Burak Kulaksız

Remote, iGaming affiliate

• Managed SEO for affiliate domains across 10 markets and languages, including Sweden, Finland, the UK, the Netherlands, France, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Cambodia and Myanmar.
• Picked expired domains with strong backlink profiles and relaunched them with their original content and structure from the Wayback Machine (expired domains, EMDs).
• Planned 5,000+ live backlinks, mostly niche edits and guest posts, and tracked placement, DR, language fit and indexation for each.
• Got brand-protection sites to #1–2 for brand searches and kept traffic loss under 10% during site migrations.
• Tracked rankings and AI share of voice in Accuranker, reported results per site, and automated routine content and link tasks with Python.

Remote, in-house, promoted to SEO Manager in 09/2024

• Led a team of 7 writers and editors, assigning keywords and topics, writing briefs and reviewing articles before publication.
• Planned keyword and content strategy for the Turkish editions of CryptoNews (16,500+ pages), 99Bitcoins (2,000+) and Business 2 Community (1,900+).
• As of September 2025, CryptoNews (~163K), 99Bitcoins (~219K) and ICOBench (~70K) were getting 450K+ monthly organic visits from Türkiye combined (Semrush).
• One analysis article on 99Bitcoins TR got 11,500+ organic clicks in 3 days (average position 1.1, 14% CTR).
• Set up the Turkish editions of ICOBench (2,800+ pages) and CoinDataFlow (200,000+ programmatic coin, stock and price prediction pages), plus CryptoDnes, and wrote their first content plans. ICOBench TR passed 106K monthly organic visits in November 2025 (Semrush).
• Checked content against Turkish regulations, handled access bans and site closures, and reported performance and competitor trends to management.

• Edited and published Turkish crypto and finance articles, and took care of keyword research, on-page SEO (titles, meta, internal links, structured data) and basic technical fixes.
• Published breaking news quickly and handled news SEO for Google News, Top Stories and Discover.

Remote, in-house

• Wrote SEO-focused Turkish news, guides and analysis on crypto and finance, including keyword research, search intent analysis and on-page optimization.

SEO and web agency, corporate clients and our own publications (borsaatlas.com)

• Provide SEO, website and content services to corporate clients such as Beeco.
• Built borsaatlas.com, a Turkish stock analysis site that now has 3,100+ pages, from scratch and got a new domain ranking at the top of Google in YMYL finance searches.
• From January to July 2026 the site got 2.8M impressions and 91K+ organic clicks; 873 of its top 1,000 queries rank in the top 10 (Search Console).
• In 7 months, 17 pages passed 1,000 clicks and 71 passed 100, spread across stock analyses, guides and price forecasts. The site ranks in the top 3 for high-volume searches such as "100 kat gidecek hisseler".
• Over 1,000 pages are cited as sources in Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode answers (GEO); daily impressions from these answers roughly tripled between late May and July 2026.
• Cut page load time from 4 seconds to 0.8 seconds.
• Built a Python bot that writes and SEO-optimizes content with the Gemini API (Google AI Studio), along with crawler and scraping tools.

Remote, London-based digital marketing agency

• Optimized 1,000+ product and category pages on philips.com.tr for Versuni (Philips Domestic Appliances) Türkiye, covering keyword mapping, meta, H1s, product copy and internal links. Some categories get up to 300K searches a month.
• Wrote English on-page recommendations for 328 brand and category pages on Mr Porter (UK).
• Ran SEO and PPC (Google Ads) for the Turkish market for clients including Honda Marine and Amazon Prime.

• Wrote content, updated WordPress sites and handled basic on-page SEO for client websites.