SEO Strategist Who Builds Organic Growth Systems

I’ve grown organic traffic from zero in some of the most competitive niches online. From technical SEO and content strategy to link building and analytics.

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01About

I help businesses grow through organic search. I’ve turned websites into their top traffic sources in competitive industries like VPN, cybersecurity, SaaS, and publishing.

I’ve been working in digital for over 20 years. I started coding HTML emails and building websites in the early 2000s, then moved into content strategy, email marketing, and eventually SEO full-time. That path gave me a wider perspective on how everything connects. I understand how a site is built, how content performs after it ranks, and how the full journey from click to conversion actually works.

When I do SEO, I’m also thinking about site architecture, UX, and conversion paths. I work across technical SEO, content strategy, link building, and analytics. I’ve also been integrating AI tools into my workflows to speed things up without losing quality.

I don’t just optimize pages. I build organic growth systems.

Curious how I can help? Let’s chat.

02Experience

SSL Dragon • Oregon, USA • 2022 — present

SEO Strategist

SSL Dragon is an established e-commerce business selling SSL certificates. When I joined, they had a large, content-rich website with over 500 pages, but no unified SEO strategy tying it all together.

  • Took organic traffic from 23,000 to 65,000 monthly users (+182%)
  • Raised organic impressions from 750,000 to 2.1 million per month
  • Scaled total keyword rankings from 4,500 to over 19,000, with top-3 positions jumping from 70 to 350
  • Supervised the translation and localization of the full website into 11 languages

Check the SSL Dragon case study

WPZOOM • Amsterdam, Netherlands • 2023 — March 2026

Digital Marketing Strategist

WPZOOM is a premium WordPress theme and plugin company serving over 250,000 customers, including Bloomberg, MIT, and Groupon. When I joined, most organic traffic was brand-related and the blog had virtually zero search visibility.

  • Built the blog from 0 to 16,800+ monthly clicks in under 18 months, making it the primary traffic driver at 71% of total site traffic
  • Doubled overall organic clicks from 11,400 to 23,700/month and grew impressions from 1.27M to 4.45M/month
  • Scaled top-10 keyword positions from ~770 to ~6,400 and top 1-3 positions from 190 to 1,204
  • Created a WordPress statistics resource that attracted 860+ referring domains organically, including Shopify, Wix, HubSpot, and PCMag

Check the WPZOOM case study

Basmo • Bucharest, Romania • 2021 — 2023

SEO Strategist

Basmo is a book tracking startup that had no blog, minimal organic traffic, and no SEO foundation when I joined. I built the entire SEO and content strategy from scratch.

  • Grew organic traffic from 1,000 to 100,000 monthly users and impressions from 30,000 to 3.5 million per month
  • Published 200+ blog articles and achieved rankings for over 40,000 keywords, with 2,000 in the top 3
  • Expanded referring domains from 70 to 1,200
  • Oversaw a domain migration with zero loss in organic visibility and localized the site into 5 languages

Check the Basmo case study

CactusVPN • Bucharest, Romania • 2011 — 2022

SEO Specialist & Managing Partner

CactusVPN is a VPN provider competing in one of the most competitive SEO niches online, against heavily funded competitors with massive content teams. I joined at launch and led the SEO and content strategy for over a decade.

  • Took organic rankings from zero to 6,000+ in the top 10, with 147+ #1 positions in the US market
  • Built a content library of 550+ English pages and scaled it into 6 languages with nearly 1,000 total indexed URLs
  • Achieved #1 rankings and 20-57% CTRs across US, Russian, German, and French markets
  • Reached consistent monthly peaks of 9K-12K visits for commercial and branded organic traffic

Check the CactusVPN case study

03Education

Universitatea Tehnică a Moldovei • Chișinău, Moldova • 2006

Engineer in Informational Technologies

Software development, web technologies, and digital systems.

04What I Do

Marketing

  • SEO
  • Content Strategy
  • Email Marketing
  • Social Media
  • PPC Advertising
  • Conversion Rate Optimization
  • A/B Testing
  • Performance Analytics
  • AI Marketing Automation
  • Multilingual SEO

Tech Stack

  • Google Analytics
  • Google Search Console
  • Google Ads
  • Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini
  • Ahrefs, Semrush
  • Screaming Frog
  • HTML/CSS

05 Languages

Romanian

English

Russian

06 Case Studies

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Let’s Make Something Awesome Together

Want to increase traffic, improve conversions, or build something from scratch? Let’s chat about your goals and how I can help, no strings attached.

Bucharest, Romania

hello@denisgraur.com

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