Muhammad Talha
SEO Specialist · Open to remote roles

I turn stalled rankings into revenue you can measure.

I'm an SEO specialist with 6 years across e-commerce, home-services, and media clients, in Local SEO, technical SEO, and AEO/GEO. Open to working with your business as a remote organic growth specialist.

  • $5K to $69K in monthly revenue for one client, in six months
  • 100% Job Success Score on Upwork across 1,648 hours delivered
  • Six years of Local SEO, technical SEO, and AEO/GEO experience
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Muhammad Talha, SEO Specialist
SEO Specialist
Muhammad Talha
Local SEO · Technical SEO · AEO/GEO

Six years turning stalled organic growth into revenue: verifiable results, not vanity metrics.

  • SEO Expert, Stars Educational Network (full-time)
  • Freelance: e-commerce, home-services, media clients
  • AEO/GEO-ready as search shifts to answer engines
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Upwork Job Success
1,648
Hours delivered
6 yrs
In SEO
Open to new opportunities · remote or in-house · mtalhamughal.com
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Upwork Job Success
22 jobs, 20 completed
Hours delivered
1,648
Hours delivered
Tracked on Upwork
In SEO
6 yrs
In SEO
Since July 2020
Avg. response time
0–4 hrs
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For growth-minded businesses

What you’re actually looking for in an organic growth specialist.

Not another list of SEO tactics. This is what tends to matter most when a small or medium business hires one, and where the proof for each lives on this site.

Understands growth end to end

SEO is the mechanism; growth is the goal. Six years spent tying rankings to leads and revenue, not chasing traffic for its own sake, and not stopping at a ranking report.

Comes with the toolkit, day one

GA4, Search Console, Ahrefs, Semrush, Screaming Frog, BrightLocal, Google Tag Manager, Looker Studio. No ramp-up time spent learning the stack before real work starts.

Reads where search is heading

Local and technical SEO are the foundation. AEO/GEO, optimizing for AI Overviews and answer engines, is where I'm already working, ahead of most specialists still catching up to it.

Fits inside a team

Upwork clients rate me Collaborative, Reliable, and a Clear Communicator across 22 contracts. Right now I run SEO inside one team full-time while managing outside client relationships in parallel.

Results you can verify

Every figure on this site is a client-reported number or something you can check yourself on a public profile. No vanity metrics, no invented case studies.

Easy to reach, easy to work with

0–4 hour average response time, native/bilingual English, and hours that overlap the US and UK. You're not waiting three days for an update.

Results

Two engagements, and the revenue and traffic they actually produced.

Beverage · E-commerce·6-month engagement

$5K to $69K in monthly revenue, in six months

A beverage brand with a product people wanted and a site search engines barely surfaced. Organic traffic was flat, the commercial pages weren't ranking for the terms that actually convert, and monthly revenue sat at around $5,000.

Monthly revenue
$69K
Monthly revenue
up from $5K
Customers per month
~5,000
Customers per month
from organic search
Visitors generated
100K+
Visitors generated
over the engagement
Time to result
6 mo
Time to result
start to finish

What I did

  • Rebuilt the keyword strategy around commercial and transactional intent rather than top-of-funnel volume
  • Fixed the technical and on-page issues holding the money pages out of the top results
  • Built out and interlinked content to support the pages that drive purchases

Client name withheld under confidentiality. Figures are the client's own reported numbers.

Content site · Owned asset·Feb 2022 – Mar 2023

Built a content site to 10K monthly visits, then sold it

I ran makeatea.com as Blog Manager: keyword strategy, site architecture, competitor analysis, production, and indexing. Not a client project: an asset I grew and eventually flipped for profit.

Articles published
250+
Articles published
Monthly traffic
10K
Monthly traffic
organic
Flipped for profit
Exit
Flipped for profit
sold as an asset

What I did

  • Planned and published 250+ articles against a silo-structured keyword map
  • Ran competitor gap analysis to find the terms the site could realistically win
  • Managed indexing and internal linking as the site scaled

Worth knowing: I've owned the P&L on an SEO asset, not just the deliverables.

Want results like these for your business?

Tell me what organic growth needs to look like for your team and I'll tell you how I'd approach it.

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“I have worked with Talha on an SEO project and it was a great learning experience. He understands SEO inside out and delivers results as promised. I would definitely work with him in the future on Digital Marketing Projects.”

Ammad Javed
Founder at Evoque
LinkedIn
If you hire me

What I’d own in the first 90 days.

If you hire me, here's the order I'd work in. Nothing here is a surprise: it's the same sequence that produced the results above.

Days 1–30

Diagnose and stop the bleeding

  • Full technical crawl: indexation, crawl budget, Core Web Vitals, canonicalisation
  • Audit what's already ranking and what's decaying, before changing anything
  • Set up or repair GA4 and Search Console reporting so we can measure the rest
Days 31–60

Fix what's cheapest to win

  • Ship the technical fixes ranked by impact against effort
  • Rework on-page for pages already sitting on page two, the fastest available wins
  • Build the keyword map around commercial intent, not just search volume
Days 61–90

Build the engine

  • Stand up the content pipeline against that keyword map
  • Strengthen internal linking so authority reaches the pages that convert
  • Establish the monthly reporting rhythm and agree the targets for the next quarter

Want this mapped to your business specifically?

Send me your domain and I'll tell you what I'd prioritise in the first month, before any interview.

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Capability

The toolkit, ready before you ask for it.

Deepest in Local SEO (six BrightLocal certifications) and comfortable across the rest of the stack a growing business actually needs.

Local SEO

My deepest specialism: six BrightLocal certifications across the discipline.

  • Google Business Profile optimization
  • Multi-location SEO audits
  • Local citation cleanup and management
  • Review generation and management
  • Local keyword research

Technical SEO

The work that unblocks everything else.

  • Indexation and crawl budget
  • Core Web Vitals and page speed
  • Structured data / schema markup
  • Canonicalisation and redirect mapping
  • Migrations without ranking loss

Content & On-Page

250+ articles published against a live keyword strategy.

  • Keyword research and intent mapping
  • Silo structuring and internal linking
  • On-page optimization
  • Competitor gap analysis
  • Content refreshes and decay recovery

AEO / GEO

Answer Engine and Generative Engine Optimization, where search is heading.

  • Optimizing for AI Overviews and answer engines
  • Entity and schema strategy
  • Content structured for extraction and citation

Certifications

6 × BrightLocal · 2024
  • Generating and Managing ReviewsBrightLocal · Oct 2024
  • Cleanup and Manage Local Business ListingsBrightLocal · Sep 2024
  • Create, Optimize, and Manage Google Business ProfileBrightLocal · Sep 2024
  • Beginner Guide to Local SEOBrightLocal · Sep 2024
  • Local Keyword ResearchBrightLocal · Apr 2024
  • Local SEO Audits for Multi-Location BusinessesBrightLocal · Feb 2024
Verified feedback

What it’s actually like working with me.

From my LinkedIn recommendations and Upwork contract reviews, not testimonials I collected myself. The pattern that keeps coming up: collaborative, reliable, easy to reach.

“Great, fast work and solid understanding of SEO, enjoy working with Muhammad.”

Upwork client
Blog posts for affiliate site
★ 5.0Upwork

“Excellent work done by M.Talha and delivered on time as expected. He has strong skills of writing and is really sincere with his work.”

Upwork client
SEO content project
★ 5.0Upwork

“I was surprised to find that Talha not only knows the nitty-gritty of SEO but is equally good in Amazon FBA wholesale. Highly recommended!”

Bilal Malik
SEO consultant positioning specialist
LinkedIn

“He regularly shared ideas and answered clients queries regarding e-commerce and SEO in a professional manner.”

Qamar Toor
Digital Marketing · worked with Talha at Social Prizm
LinkedIn
Client-endorsed traits, aggregated by Upwork
Collaborative5×Clear Communicator2×Committed to Quality2×Reliable2×Accountable for Outcomes1×Professional1×

Every quote above is one click from its source.

If the work looks like what your team needs, the next step is a short conversation, no prepared pitch required.

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Working with me remotely

The questions you’d ask on a screening call, answered now.

Hours

I work to US and UK business hours from Lahore. Overlap is a scheduling decision, not a constraint. I've been doing it for six years.

English

Native/bilingual English, verified on Upwork. 0–4 hour average response time across 22 contracts. Comfortable in stakeholder calls and written reporting.

Verification

100% Job Success Score, ID-verified, 1,648 tracked hours. Every claim on this site traces back to a public profile you can check.

Contracting

Open to full-time employment, employer-of-record arrangements, or a contractor agreement, whichever suits your setup. Happy to talk through start dates on a first call.

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Next step

Hiring for an SEO role? Let’s talk.

Open to new opportunities. Send me the role and I’ll tell you honestly whether I’m the right fit for it.

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