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Russ Gooberman

SEO & ASO Expert
Studio City,CA

Summary

A 2x Webby Award winning writer, Russ is a skilled marketing linguist that has driven organic traffic spikes for clients including the NIH, Jets.com, and AAA's GiG Car Share.

He has over 10 years of experience as a technical SEO specialist, a content team lead and in app store-specific optimization (ASO). He's optimized marketing language in many different verticals, including real estate, cloud computing, healthcare, SaaS and crypto.

Russ also has 20 years of public speaking experience, is a former debate champion and currently teaches improvisational theater in his spare time.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

SEO Lead

Silver Lake Digital
01.2022 - Current

SEO Lead for Silver Lake Digital Agency. Have optimized marketing language, metadata and local search for clients including John Wind (ecommerce) DClutterfly (home organization) and Civitas Capital Group.

For this work, Russ employs tools including Google Search Console (GSC), GA4, Ahrefs, Screaming Frog, Sensor Tower, Shopify's Smart SEO, Google Data Studio, Looker and Tableau.

Crypto SEO/ASO Specialist

Voyager Digital
06.2020 - 05.2022

SEO and ASO strategy leader in the crypto sphere. Optimized iOS & Google Play listings for Voyager Digital (exchange), rally.io (token issuer), Sense Chat (encrypted chat), and BitGo (prime custodian) to help them understand the crypto linguistic landscape. A/B testing of app icons, background & featured images, as well as deep analysis of competitors' app iconography and metadata. Funnel optimizations & delivery of KPI reports to management.


Tools used in for crypto clients included Sensor Tower, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs and SEO Moz.

VP SEO & Analytics

Impact Wrap
01.2017 - 05.2021

Investor and head of analytics and SEO for a rapidly expanding fitness analytics startup. From a home-based startup, Impact Wrap is now an industry leader in combat sports metrics and has expended to 110+ gyms in 20+ countries worldwide.


Tools used here included Charles Web Debugging Proxy, Google Search Console, Google Schema Validation Tool, Google Disavowal Tool, Sensor Tower, Google Ads, Facebook Business Portal and Hootsuite.

Head of Growth/ Content

BIGtoken/ SRAX
10.2019 - 11.2020

ASO Strategy for iOS & Google Play apps. Ran A/B Testing, KPI metrics, in-app & landing page optimizations. Ran $300k paid campaign via Chicago Tribune affiliates. Oversaw app store keyword and metadata translation into four alternate languages. Achieved an 800% organic increase in app impressions in iOS & 400% organic increase in app impressions in Google Play.


Tools utilized here included Sensor Tower, SQL, Google Sheets & Slides, GSC, Leanplum, Flurry, AppsFlyer, Google Play Console, Apple Search Ads, iOS app analytics and Amplitude.

SEO Lead

NIH Precision Medicine Initiative
03.2017 - 05.2019

Advised the NIH for its Precision Medicine Initiative, All of Us (joinallofus.org) via WONDROS. Provided optimized keyword sets based on competitor research, authored title tags & meta descriptions & provided key mapping for focus keywords throughout site architecture. Brought this program to the #1 global ranking for "Join all of us," keyphrase.


Tools utilized here include Screaming Frog, GSC, Google Ads traffic projections, SEO Moz and Google Schema Authenticator.

Education

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Brandeis University

Skills

SEO Technical Audits

Keyword Research

Funnel Optimization

On-page optimization

Problem-solving abilities

Data Analysis & Visualization

Team Lead

Content optimization

SEO copywriting

Reddit marketing

Timeline

SEO Lead

Silver Lake Digital
01.2022 - Current

Crypto SEO/ASO Specialist

Voyager Digital
06.2020 - 05.2022

Head of Growth/ Content

BIGtoken/ SRAX
10.2019 - 11.2020

SEO Lead

NIH Precision Medicine Initiative
03.2017 - 05.2019

VP SEO & Analytics

Impact Wrap
01.2017 - 05.2021

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Brandeis University
Russ GoobermanSEO & ASO Expert