Nine years of turning organic search into a real revenue channel.
I'm Seyam Hossen — an independent SEO and growth strategist working with funded startups and DTC brands. This is the long version.
A one-person practice with agency-grade depth.
I grew up in Dhaka in a household where curiosity was the default mode. My first paid project was building a Bengali-language blog for a family friend's bookshop in 2016 — within six months it was outranking the publisher's official site. I was hooked.
Since then I've spent nine years inside the messy middle of SEO and growth marketing. I started by fixing crawl errors for local shops; I now help funded startups and DTC brands turn organic search into a real revenue channel — not a vanity metric on a quarterly slide.
I work alone, by design. Every audit, strategy doc, and implementation note is written by me — not handed off to a junior. That means fewer clients (four to six a year), longer engagements, and far better work. It also means I say no a lot.
When I'm not in a doc, I'm probably walking the Dhanmondi lake loop with a podcast on, or rebuilding my Notion stack for the fourth time this year.
Nine years, one through-line: do the work yourself.
- 2017Started in the trenches
Fixed crawl errors and on-page basics for local shops in Dhaka. Learned that most SEO problems are really information-architecture problems.
- 2019First in-house role
Led organic strategy for a regional DTC brand — took non-brand traffic from 4k to 90k/month over 14 months by rebuilding category taxonomy.
- 2021Went independent
Left agency life to work directly with founders. Smaller roster, deeper engagements, no account managers in the middle.
- 2024Built AI-assisted workflows
Folded LLMs into briefing, internal-linking, and SERP analysis pipelines — output quadrupled without losing editorial control.
- 2026Studio of one
Four to six clients a year. Every audit, brief, and implementation note written by me — never handed off.
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