Campaign’s Digital to Watch 2023 – Ahmad Shakeeb Odetallah, SEO Manager, Chain Reaction

Campaign’s Digital to Watch 2023 – Ahmad Shakeeb Odetallah, SEO Manager, Chain Reaction

Age: 24

Nominated by Furat Jarad, Head of SEO:
Ahmad is a highly skilled professional marketer with a proven track record in building effective SEO strategies for clients. His dedication to staying current with industry trends enables him to spearhead innovative SEO experiments and inspire his team to contribute their ideas.

In addition to his strong marketing acumen, Ahmad boasts exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills, which empower him to seamlessly collaborate with colleagues, foster a positive work environment, and drive results that surpass client expectations. This unique blend of expertise and soft skills makes Ahmad an invaluable asset to our digital marketing team.

Career highlights

Throughout his career, Ahmad Shakeeb has worked with a variety of news publications; he has a passion for SEO knowledge and theories and also has a persistent interest in changing the mindset of newspapers, magazines, and publications editorials towards the SEO world by constantly understanding how Google and search engines are changing and developing their algorithms and ranking methods, especially for the news industry and its dynamic state.

Ahmad currently holds the position of SEO Manager at Chain Reaction Agency, where he also oversees the “News” and client websites.

Ahmad’s career highlights include transforming the working environments of more than 15 news sites, implementing SEO into their processes, and generating enormous increases in organic traffic through all of the work he has done with them.

Guiding principles

As a marketer, it’s important to follow these principles:
Always be eager to learn more and have a thirst for information.
Demanding more of myself will help me advance and succeed.
I remind myself to be intelligent and courteous while engaging with people because dealing with people might be more difficult than dealing with bots.

Side hustle

When Ahmad had no prior experience in SEO, he was racing against time to develop his first 1 M organic session, which he accomplished in 6 months! Ahmad led his first SEO publication, altered their environment, and built their news business model.

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