I'm Mine Akar, a Senior SEO Specialist with 6+ years of experience helping local businesses, eCommerce, and SaaS brands grow their organic traffic and ROI. I excel in technical SEO, content optimization, and analytics, and I have a proven track record leading teams and delivering data-driven strategies that climb SERP rankings. I thrive in collaborative environments, work cross-functionally with copywriters, developers, and designers, and I create scalable SEO roadmaps and SOPs to improve efficiency and results.…

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I'm Mine Akar, a Senior SEO Specialist with 6+ years of experience helping local businesses, eCommerce, and SaaS brands grow their organic traffic and ROI. I excel in technical SEO, content optimization, and analytics, and I have a proven track record leading teams and delivering data-driven strategies that climb SERP rankings. I thrive in collaborative environments, work cross-functionally with copywriters, developers, and designers, and I create scalable SEO roadmaps and SOPs to improve efficiency and results.…

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I’m Mine Akar, a Senior SEO Specialist with 6+ years of experience helping local businesses, eCommerce, and SaaS brands grow their organic traffic and ROI. I excel in technical SEO, content optimization, and analytics, and I have a proven track record leading teams and delivering data-driven strategies that climb SERP rankings.

I thrive in collaborative environments, work cross-functionally with copywriters, developers, and designers, and I create scalable SEO roadmaps and SOPs to improve efficiency and results.

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Skills

Experience Level

Ahrefs
Expert
GA4
Expert
Screaming Frog
Expert
WordPress
Expert
Shopify
Expert
Looker Studio
Expert
SEMrush
Expert

Language

English
Fluent
Turkish
Fluent
Spanish; Castilian
Intermediate

Work Experience

SEO Manager at HQ DM
September 1, 2020 - July 1, 2024
Executed full-scale SEO strategies for local and global clients, boosting organic traffic YoY; managed a 5+ person SEO team; conducted in-depth technical audits (CWV, crawl depth, schema markup); fixed crawl errors to ensure indexability; optimized keyword map ping for better search intent, on-page content, and internal linking; collaborated with copywriters for SEO-friendly content creation.
SEO Consultant at Upwork
December 1, 2019 - Present
Delivered SEO services to 40+ global clients in eCommerce, SaaS, healthcare, education, and legal sectors; boosted organic sessions by 30–200% within 3–12 months; created custom SEO roadmaps and content frameworks; maintained Top-Rated Freelancer status with 5-star client reviews.
SEO Manager at Lahav Media
February 1, 2019 - September 1, 2019
Designed and executed SEO campaigns for small businesses, improving local visibility; conducted competitive analysis and backlink audits using Ahrefs and SEMrush to identify high-value link opportunities.
SEO Analyst at The Word of Web
April 1, 2018 - February 1, 2019
Conducted comprehensive SEO audits covering site speed, mobile optimization, and metadata implementation; implemented technical SEO improvements increasing crawl efficiency and reducing content duplication.
Business Development Manager at Finacus Software
January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2017
Early career role focusing on business development and client outreach.
Project Coordinator at LinkedIn Turkey
January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2014
Coordinated projects and stakeholders.
Teaching Assistant at Sabancı University
January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2013
Assisted in courses; supported students.

Education

M.A. at Bilkent University
January 11, 2030 - February 16, 2026
B.A. at Bilkent University
January 11, 2030 - February 16, 2026

Qualifications

Google Analytics for Beginners
January 11, 2030 - February 16, 2026
Google Tag Manager Fundamentals
January 11, 2030 - February 16, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Education
    uniE621 Onpage SEO Expert
    I was initially hired by this client (an SEO agency from the US) for on-page optimizations using Surfer SEO. Shortly after, I started helping with other tasks such as technical audits, keyword research and mapping, content audits, internal link audit & optimizations, schema markups, and so on. My role quickly evolved into SEO Manager for the team and I became responsible for the management of the projects, training new team members, updating/creating SOPs, making sure the tasks are done correctly and delivered on time, coordinating with the content writers as well as helping with client side when needed.…
    uniE621 Technical SEO Consultation
    Client was having problems with indexing for their large website created specifically for AI visibility for real estate businesses. After an initial investigation, I found out that the duplicate content issues that were triggered and reported on GSC was in fact due to wrong canonical tags (or lack thereof) and having two URL versions for the same page available (200 status code, one with trailing slash and one with no slash which are perceived as 2 different URLs but in fact they are the same page/have the exact same content).…

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