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Foti Panagiotakopoulos
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Blaine
Founder · Permit Hound
"I don't want to walk through an uncleared minefield without someone who has walked it before."
Hamel Shah
Co-Founder · CarrotsAndCake
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Lena Sesardic
Product Manager
"Knowing I can always book a call to help me clarify what I'm doing is the best feeling in the world."
Minh
Solo Founder · SEOmatic
"I like to set my own strategies and then get help from experts to improve on them and check if I'm on the…"
Nicola Rubino
Growth Marketing Consultant · nicorubino
"It gave me fast access to expert-level insights that I couldn't get from academic research or user surveys…"
Annie Chen
Head of Marketing · DOWN Dating App
"Sometimes I'm stuck at one step and all I need is someone who can share experiences of what they did when…"
Carlos Terol
Co-Founder · Bagmaya
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Luka Karsten Breitig
Co-Founder · The Happy Beavers
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Flora Bui
Co-Founder · Acie
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Maria Ledentsova
Digital Marketing Manager · magier
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Kate Bojkov
Head of Growth · EmbedSocial
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Supriya Agarwal
Co-founder · BiosectRx
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Anastasia Rubleva
Head of Growth · Rapid Dev
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CEO & Co-founder · Review Robin
"You should cut out 99% of the things that you're thinking about."
The mentors, in their own words.
60 mentors available
Success at SEO is a function of a solid content marketing strategy and a personalized framework to acquire high-value links. There's no right/wrong answers when it comes to the "how." It's all situational and should be built around your business. Before booking a call with me, send me your URL. I'll take a look at your site and run it through Ahrefs to see if I can help you score some quick wins!
Austin Mullins
Enterprise SEO & Content Marketer With a Passion for SaaS, eLearning, eCommerce | Founder @ Conversion Media
Success in SEO is a function of a solid content marketing strategy, the ability to acquire high-value links, and an understanding of the technical side to help Google understand the assets you're creating. Before booking a call with me, send me your URL. I'll take a look at your site, run it through Ahrefs and do a crawl to see if I can help you make sure immediate improvements!
Daniel Johnson
GTM & Growth Operator | AI & B2B SaaS | Fractional CMO | £18M+ Revenue Driven
Search Engine Optimisation has proven to be one of the most effective methods for my brands and my clients. But the game has changed, no longer can you spam keywords and hope Google will index and rank your website. You now need to take a data-driven, carefully thought out approach accounting for Google's hundreds of ranking factors.
SEO is essential for companies of all sizes today, and it's based in great content coupled with a personalized approach to acquire valuable links. Let me study your site before we speak - send me your URL and will see if I can help you with some insights that will deliver value to you and to your business.
Linus Antlov
Growth Marketing Consultant (Social Ads, ASO, SEO, & PPC) 📈 | Google, Facebook, Apple | App Growth Expert 📱
I run my own blog focused on increasing traffic via SEO, and I've worked in a startup where I was handling eCommerce SEO to grow the visitors and sales in 3 markets.
Experience in search engine optimisation for a range of industries and business sizes including small niche markets to enterprise level technical seo audits in both english and greek. I am NOT an expert on SEO strategies for tech based startups - although I am always happy to have a chat :)
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What an SEO mentor does
An SEO mentor is a practitioner who has already built the kind of organic channel you are trying to build. You get a 1:1 call with someone who has grown search traffic and knows which moves matter for a site at your stage.
The most useful calls almost never end with "publish more." The highest-value thing a mentor does is look at your whole content and search system and tell you where it is built backwards. Most calls do some version of this:
- Rethink the architecture. The common breakthrough is structural: your site, your topic clusters, or your content plan are organized in a way that works against you, and one rethink unblocks the rest.
- Name the gap. Most people are working hard inside a small box. A mentor names the option, tool, or tactic you did not know existed, and the call pays for itself.
- Find the bottleneck. Whether the issue is technical, the content, the targeting, or the page itself, a mentor finds the one thing holding rankings or conversions back, then fixes that first.
- Fix what blocks conversion. Plenty of sites rank fine and still do not convert. A mentor can tell you when the page, not the traffic, is the problem.
- Decide if SEO is even the move. A mentor will tell you when organic is not the right channel for your margins or timeline, and what to do instead.
The value is direction: what to do next, what to fix first, and what to stop doing.
You also leave with a record. After each call, the takeaways are written down for you, ready to keep or skip:
Will SopranoOrganic channel reviewRestructure the blog into three topic clusters before you publish anything new, the flat archive is why nothing ranks.
Target ten buyer-intent terms you can realistically win at your domain strength, not the head keywords everyone chases.
KeepSkipOne template is trying to rank and convert at once, split the informational and the commercial intent onto separate pages.
KeepSkipIf organic payback runs past nine months at your margins, run paid through launch and treat SEO as the year-two channel.
KeepSkipStarting SEO from scratch
The most common reason people book an SEO call is the simplest one: they are starting the channel, not tuning it. You own organic and content alone, you have a blank site or a thin one, and you are not sure what the first move should be.
A mentor who has built this from zero helps you skip the months of guessing. Instead of publishing into the void, you get a starting sequence that fits your business:
- What to build first. the foundation that compounds, instead of a pile of posts that never connect to each other.
- Which topics to own. the cluster of search terms your buyers use, not the high-volume keywords everyone chases and nobody wins.
- How fast it pays off. a clear read on the timeline so you do not quit two months before it would have worked.
- Whether content is even the right channel. for some products and margins, organic is the wrong first move, and a good mentor will tell you so.
Building from scratch is the most common situation here
The reader on this page is usually a founder or marketer who chose organic as the channel they can afford and is doing it for the first time. You do not need an SEO title to get value from a call. You need a specific question.
Keyword and content strategy
A lot of people produce content and see almost nothing back. The output is there, the rankings are not. The fix is rarely more volume. It is usually a smarter plan underneath the writing.
A mentor helps you build a keyword and content strategy that has a chance of ranking and converting:
- Keyword research that holds up. finding terms with intent and a realistic chance of ranking, instead of guessing or chasing whatever a tool surfaces first.
- Topic clusters, not standalone posts. structuring content so pages support each other and build authority on a topic, rather than each post fighting alone.
- Avoiding cannibalization. stopping two of your own pages from competing for the same term and splitting their ranking power.
- Ranking when you are small. winning low-volume and niche terms first, where you can compete, before going after the head terms.
- Content that converts, not just attracts. planning pages that turn the visitor into a customer, not just a number in your traffic report.
A clear plan for ten posts beats a hundred posts with no plan behind them.
Mentors start diagnosing before the call. A typical first exchange after you book:
Kate BusbyWhy your traffic dropped
"My organic traffic is falling and I don't know why" is one of the most common calls people book. The channel worked, then it stopped, and from inside it is hard to see what changed.
A mentor turns this from panic into triage. They walk the site with you and narrow down what moved:
- An algorithm update. a core update reshuffled rankings, and the fix is understanding what it rewards now, not chasing your old playbook.
- A technical change. a redesign, a redirect, or a setting broke something search engines relied on, without anyone noticing.
- Lost relevance. competitors moved, the search intent shifted, and your pages no longer answer the question as well.
- A reporting issue. sometimes the traffic is fine and the drop is in your tracking, which is the best outcome to rule out first.
Surviving a site migration
A migration is one of the highest-stakes things you can do to a site that ranks. Move a domain, consolidate two sites, rebrand, or rebuild the whole thing, and one wrong redirect can erase years of rankings overnight.
This is a moment to talk to someone who has done it before, not to learn on the live site. A mentor who has run migrations helps you protect what you have earned:
- Redirect mapping. getting every old URL pointed to the right new one, so the ranking power transfers instead of evaporating.
- Domain consolidation. merging sites or subdomains without cannibalizing yourself or splitting your authority across both.
- Rebrands without ranking loss. changing the name and the look while keeping the search equity you built under the old one.
- A safe rollout plan. what to check before, during, and after the switch, so you catch a problem in hours, not months.
Booking before the migration is far cheaper than booking after it goes wrong.
a migration plan, x-rayed
Every old URL mapped to one new URL before anything goes live1. The staging build crawled and checked while the old site still serves traffic2. DNS flips on a low-traffic weekday, not a Friday3. Search Console and rankings watched daily for the first two weeks4.
The redirect map
Every earning URL points somewhere deliberate. A missed 301 is where the rankings leak out.
The dry run
Checked on staging before the switch, not discovered on the live site after.
The timing
A low-traffic weekday means you can watch it and roll back before a problem spreads.
The watch window
The first two weeks tell you if a redirect broke. You catch it in hours, not months.
Four moves on one page. The one that erases years of rankings is a redirect nobody mapped.
Technical SEO without the jargon
Technical SEO is where a lot of founders and content marketers freeze. The vocabulary is intimidating, and it is easy to assume every ranking problem is hiding somewhere in the code.
A mentor can right-size it for you. Sometimes the technical setup is the bottleneck, and sometimes it is a distraction from a content or targeting problem. Either way you stop guessing:
- Setting it up right on your stack. getting the basics correct on your CMS or tech stack so search engines can crawl and index you properly.
- Fixing what is broken. diagnosing technical issues that hold rankings back, separate from the ones that look scary but do not matter.
- Knowing when technical is not the problem. a clear read on whether your rankings are stuck on the code or on something far simpler.
- Multi-domain and multilingual setups. handling the harder cases, like several domains, subdomains, or content in multiple languages.
You do not need to be technical to get value here
Most people who book this kind of call are not engineers. A mentor translates the technical part into plain decisions you can act on or hand off.
Backlinks and authority
Backlinks are the single most asked-about SEO topic, and the area with the most noise around it. Everyone has a strong opinion, half of it is outdated, and some of it will get your site penalized.
A mentor who has built authority gives you the straight version, without selling you a link package:
- What works now. the link-building moves that still move rankings, separate from the tactics that stopped working years ago.
- Buy versus build. a straight answer on whether buying links is worth the risk for your situation, and what earning them looks like instead.
- Agency versus doing it yourself. when an outside team makes sense, what to ask them, and how to tell a legitimate one from a link farm.
- How much links even matter for you. for many niches, content and technical health move the needle more than chasing links ever will.
The right answer is usually less link obsession and more of the work that compounds.
Almost nobody under-invests in links. The usual move is a pull to the left, toward the work that actually compounds.
SEO for AI search (GEO)
More and more buyers now start with an AI assistant instead of a search box. They ask ChatGPT or another model for a recommendation, and being the answer it gives is becoming its own channel. This is live demand, not a future bet, and people are already asking about it on calls.
A mentor who is paying attention to this can help you sort the signal from the hype:
- Getting cited by LLMs. what makes an AI model surface and quote your content when someone asks about your space.
- How it overlaps with classic SEO. much of what earns rankings also earns AI citations, so you are not starting a separate program from zero.
- Whether to invest now. a clear read on how much effort this deserves at your stage versus the fundamentals you still have not nailed.
- Using AI in the workflow. where AI tools speed up research and production, and where leaning on them tanks quality before you notice.
What a mentor can help with
People who book an SEO call are mostly served by growth and content generalists, not pure technical-SEO specialists. That breadth is the point. You can find someone who has done the thing you are stuck on, and put SEO in the context of your whole funnel:
- SEO strategy. Where to start, what to prioritize, and how to build an organic channel that compounds.
- Keyword and content planning. Research, topic clusters, and a content plan built to rank and convert.
- Technical SEO. CMS and tech-stack setup, fixing what is broken, migrations and multi-domain.
- Link building and authority. What still works, what to ignore, and whether to build or buy.
- Traffic recovery. Diagnosing a ranking drop and rebuilding the channel that stalled.
- Content marketing. A content engine and distribution plan that does not depend on one post going viral.
- Conversion and CRO. Turning organic visitors into customers when the traffic is fine but the page is not.
- AI search and GEO. Optimizing to be found and cited by ChatGPT and other AI assistants.
Pick the mentor whose background matches whether you are starting out, recovering a drop, or planning a migration.
You can also run it in reverse: post what you are stuck on as a help request, and mentors raise their hands to take it.
What people book SEO calls about
Rarely what they end up solving. The ask on the booking form is usually a symptom, and a mentor who has grown organic traffic before recognizes the pattern underneath it. Three that come up again and again:
walked in as, walked out as
Walked in as
A content problem
We need to publish more posts.
Walked out as
A structure problem
The posts never form a cluster.
Walked in as
A traffic problem
Rankings dropped and traffic fell off.
Walked out as
A migration problem
A redirect broke during the rebuild.
Walked in as
A backlink problem
We need more links to rank.
Walked out as
A relevance problem
The page answers the wrong intent.
Three calls, one mechanic. The problem that leaves the room is never the one that walked in.
Why GrowthMentor
Every mentor on GrowthMentor is vetted before they are accepted. Fewer than 5% of applicants get in. They are operators and advisors who grow real organic traffic, not influencers selling a link package or a course.
Because the network is broad, you are not stuck with a single-channel technician when your problem spans the whole funnel. You can get someone who puts SEO in context, tells you whether content is even the right channel, and points at the fix. Then a different person for the next question.
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Hamel Shah · Co-Founder
Read Hamel's storyKnowing I can always book a call to help me clarify what I'm doing is the best feeling in the world.
Lena Sesardic · Product Manager
Read Lena's storyI like to set my own strategies and then get help from experts to improve on them and check if I'm on the right track.
Minh · Solo Founder
Read Minh's storyIt gave me fast access to expert-level insights that I couldn't get from academic research or user surveys alone.
Nicola Rubino · Growth Marketing Consultant
Read Nicola's storySometimes I'm stuck at one step and all I need is someone who can share experiences of what they did when they were in my situation.
Annie Chen · Head of Marketing
Read Annie's storyI enjoy having pretty much instant access to a pool of worldwide, expert mentors who are keen to share their expertise and help others.
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Before you join
What people ask before their first call.
Start from your buyers and your business, not from a generic checklist. Pick the cluster of topics your buyers search for, build a foundation that compounds instead of a pile of disconnected posts, and get a clear read on the timeline. A mentor who has built organic from zero can give you the first sequence to run and tell you whether content is even the right channel for you.
Good keyword research is about intent and realism, not just volume. You want terms your buyers use, where you have a chance of ranking at your size. A mentor can show you how to find those terms, group them into topic clusters, and avoid having two of your own pages compete for the same keyword.
There is no magic number, and chasing volume is usually the wrong instinct. Ten posts built around a focused topic cluster, with a plan underneath them, beat a hundred disconnected ones. A mentor can help you decide what to publish and in what order, so the work compounds instead of scattering.
The cause is usually one of a few things: an algorithm update, a technical change like a redesign or redirect, lost relevance as competitors moved, or a tracking issue that only looks like a drop. A mentor can walk your site with you, narrow it to the cause, and prioritize the fix that recovers the most traffic first, instead of rewriting everything and hoping.
A migration is one of the highest-stakes things you can do to a ranking site, and one wrong redirect can erase years of work. Talk to someone before you switch, not after. A mentor who has run migrations can help you map redirects, consolidate domains safely, keep your search equity through a rebrand, and check the right things before, during, and after the rollout.
Links still matter, but the area is full of outdated advice and tactics that can get you penalized. A mentor gives you the straight version: what still works now, whether buying links is worth the risk for your situation, when an agency makes sense, and how much links even matter for your niche compared to content and technical health.
For a growing number of businesses, yes. Buyers increasingly ask an AI assistant for a recommendation, and being the answer it gives is becoming its own channel. The good news is much of what earns rankings also earns AI citations. A mentor can give you a clear read on how much effort this deserves at your stage versus the fundamentals you still have not nailed.
This is one of the most common things people bring to a call, and the fix is rarely more volume. Usually the plan underneath the writing is missing: no keyword targeting, posts that fight each other instead of forming clusters, or content built to attract traffic rather than convert. A mentor can find what is holding it back and give you a plan that ranks.
This is exactly who most people on this page are. When you own the channel alone, a mentor is the senior second opinion you do not have in-house: someone to pressure-test your plan, name the tools and tactics you did not know existed, and tell you what to fix first and what to ignore.
An agency runs the work and a course teaches the theory. A mentor gives you a practitioner's opinion on your specific site, in real time, with no upsell and no link package to sell you. It is the fastest way to get unstuck on one decision, like why traffic dropped or what to do before a migration.
One specific problem and any context that helps: your site, your traffic numbers, the decision you are weighing, or the drop you are trying to explain. The more concrete the question, the more useful the 30 minutes. You do not need a polished audit, just the thing you are stuck on.
SEO strategy and getting started, keyword research and content planning, technical SEO and migrations, link building and authority, traffic recovery, content marketing and distribution, conversion when traffic is fine but the page is not, and AI search. Bring a specific problem and you will leave with a plan.
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