Aiswarya
Menon
Once a clueless engineer, then a discovered writer, now a chuffed marketer and SEO.

PS: scroll for the good stuff

Aiswarya Menon
Ciao! 👋
Pixie
PIXIE ✨
Hi! I'm Pixie. Aiswarya's favourite stationery. An eraser. Just chilling on her desk one Sunday and now I'm here on her website as her official guide. Kids these days. Welcome to her corner of the internet. The story so far is where it all begins. Pour yourself a chai, this part's tea!
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The story so far

01

It started with a semicolon in the wrong place. In a sentence, not a line of code. A week into my engineering job, I knew stories were my language, not Java. Not that engineering was the problem (I graduated with First Class & Honours). Life just had other plans.

clueless
engineer
discovered
writer
02

What started as curiosity about micro-fiction in college became a fascination, then an identity. Writing found me before I found it. And, I'm so glad!

03

Writing led to marketing. Marketing led to SEO. 8 years and counting across SaaS, fintech. Nervous fresher, then a one-woman marketing army, now a team lead. The through-line: it has been a wonderful journey.

chuffed
marketer
and
SEO
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Now, SEO is not something to learn over a weekend. I get to do it day in and out! Working at the intersection of semantic SEO, knowledge graphs, and AI. There is never a day you do not learn something new.

Pixie
PIXIE ✨ Now you know the story, let's get to the receipts. Click any card to see some numbers and her writing. (If you want to hire her, I'd totally get that. Just saying.)
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The work

POSITION 01 · SaaS · 2022 to present
B+ Team Leader, Mid-market
wordlift.io · AI SEO · contractor
Part of the Innovation Hub at WordLift. Working with clients navigating SEO in the age of AI — knowledge graphs, structured data, semantic content. Currently leading the mid-market (B+) client portfolio.
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This role sits at the intersection of work I genuinely care about: semantic SEO, knowledge graphs, entity-based optimisation, and AI. Day to day, I manage the mid-market client segment end-to-end. Strategy, execution, relationship, the works.

// what I work on
B+ (mid-market) client portfolio, end to end
Semantic SEO: entities, knowledge graphs, structured data
Content audits, topic clusters, on-page optimisation
Occasional speaking at industry events
// client case study Contributed to a case study on semantic SEO and Knowledge Panel acquisition for Express Legal Funding. Results delivered as part of the WordLift team. read the case study
// a glimpse of the work in motion

A short share from a working day, on embedding analysis for content strategy.

POSITION 02 · fintech · Dec 2020 to Apr 2022
Lead Content Marketer
decentro.tech · fintech API startup
Remember Rebecca Bloomwood from Confessions of a Shopaholic? Pretty much sums it up. A no-background-in-fintech person writing all about it. First marketing hire. 7x organic in 11 months.
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Remember Rebecca Bloomwood from Confessions of a Shopaholic? Walking into a finance journalism job knowing nothing about finance, then becoming weirdly good at it? That was me at Decentro. Walked in with zero fintech background, walked out fluent in API docs, banking rails, and how to write for developers, CFOs, and founders all at once.

Onboarded as the first marketing hire, brought onto the core team. Within 11 months, organic alone drove results that became part of the company's growth story.

7x
organic search traffic
4x
overall website traffic
32x
search impressions
8x
clicks from search
Owned entire content and marketing strategy, built directly with the founders
Wrote blogs, webpages, social media copy, and email newsletters consistently
6-digit impressions on Twitter and LinkedIn via social media marketing
POSITION 03 · SaaS · Feb 2018 to July 2020
Senior Product Marketer
surveysparrow.com · CX management SaaS
Where my career took flight. Managed the website, newsletters, and social media. 8x organic traffic. 47% product sales revenue from organic. Marketing Department's Most Valuable Player.
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Where my career took flight. SurveySparrow was my first real nest: where I learned to write, to rank, and to genuinely love what I was building. Tiny sparrow energy, big growth. Started as Product Marketer, grew to Senior, and somewhere along the way the SEO obsession quietly took over. Left knowing that organic is the most powerful channel when you treat it with patience and precision.

8x
organic traffic growth
47%
of product sales revenue from organic
6x organic traffic from social media via event-based campaigns
Recognised as Marketing Department's Most Valuable Player (MVP)
POSITION 04 · SEO agency · early career
Freelance Content Specialist
rankz.io · SEO agency
Freelance gig. Full creative freedom. Write what I wanted, under my own voice. The site has since moved on, only archives remain.
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This was a freelance gig, and honestly? Pure fun. Full creative freedom, write whatever I wanted, publish under my own voice. The kind of writing experience every early-career writer dreams of.

The site itself has since moved on, so only the archived versions are available. Trust me, they are worth the read. I hope.

// surveysparrow
surveysparrow.com · product
Announcing New Features: SurveySparrow Got New Features in its Cap
Written during my time as Product Marketer, covering new integrations and platform updates for a fast-growing SaaS.
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surveysparrow.com · seasonal
Make June Brighter With This 4th of July Campaign
A seasonal campaign blog tying product use-cases to a US holiday moment. Content, timing, and relevance.
read article
linkedin · moment marketing
Money Heist Moment Marketing Campaign
Riding the Bella Ciao wave for SurveySparrow. Pop culture meets B2B social, a piece I am still fond of.
view post
pinterest · social
Go Conversational: SurveySparrow Pinterest Board
A curated Pinterest board built while leading social. Visual storytelling for a conversational survey product.
view board
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rankz.io · archived
Best Link Building Tools for SEO Practitioners
A comprehensive roundup written while learning these tools firsthand. Trust me, worth the read. I hope.
read archived article
rankz.io · archived
Content Marketing Examples: Best-in-Class Campaigns
Case studies and campaigns that set the standard, across industries and formats.
read archived article
rankz.io · archived
SEO Chrome Extensions: A Practical Day-to-Day Guide
Chrome extensions that actually make a difference in daily SEO workflows, tested from the inside.
read archived article
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Pixie
PIXIE ✨ We've covered the where and the what. This is the how. Aiswarya's actual toolkit. She wrote these descriptions herself, by the way.
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The toolkit

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SEO
The perfect blend of on-page and off-page in the SEO cocktail. Plus semantic SEO, knowledge graphs, and structured data. Go organic all the way. Waltz with Google and rank your page number 1 in SERP.
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Content Marketing
Content needs to be heard. Seen. Utilised. It needs a strategy. Spread your wings in the domain you reside in.
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Product Marketing
What I do 5 days a week and at times during weekends. Give the product all the sparkle it needs.
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Keyword Analysis and Strategy
First the tiny fish, then the great white. The world fights for the number 1 spot. You will get there. Go steady and smart.
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Email Marketing Campaigns
Yuhoo! You have got a mail. Your boots may go out of trend but never email marketing. Click send and roll out that campaign.
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Social Media Marketing
Watch the world with an eagle's eye. Seize the moment. For me, it is the beacon of creativity and opportunity.
Pixie
PIXIE ✨ Welcome to Soul Food. The stage moments, the bylines, some interviews, some cherished moments.
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On stage and in print

SEO e Innovazione Rome 2023
SEO e Innovazione · Rome, June 2023with Aleyda Solis, Lily Ray, Beatrice Gamba
Aiswarya on stage
WordLift SEO Conferenceon stage, semantic SEO strategy
SEO and Structured Data webinar
SEO and Structured Data in the Age of AIWordLift × Main Street ROI · 2024
#WTSNEWSLETTER Featured in
WiTSEO Newsletter
Women in Tech SEO
Featured in WiTSEO Newslettercontent featured by the community
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Refrens interview
Refrens
Soaking in Sunshine Everyday: Freelance Interview
Women in Tech SEO interview
Women in Tech SEO
The SEO journey, tools, and what keeps her going
CheckerNews interview
CheckerNews
Write and Keep Writing: Exclusive Interview
Pixie
PIXIE ✨ Remember micro-tales? Tiny stories, big feelings. We both love it!
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Where it all began

Micro-fiction: The axe had fallen in love with the tree
@thescribbledstories
Micro-fiction: Dinner tables had laughter and conversation
@scrawledstories
Micro-fiction: The sapphire ring gleamed
@thescribbledstories

@thescribbledstories and @scrawledstories, among India's largest micro-fiction communities on Instagram.

Pixie
PIXIE ✨ What people who've actually worked with Aiswarya say about her. I personally vetted these. No bribes were offered (no carrots either).
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What others say

"

Aiswarya is a pleasure to work with and an excellent SEO project manager who makes a significant difference day in and day out. She does a great job keeping the overall plan organized, in mind, and moving.

We have been collaborating on the Express Legal Funding website and blog for more than a year now. A few highlights: more relevant traffic, ranking higher for more keywords, improving E-E-A-T, a Google knowledge panel, fact check claim reviews, medically reviewed by, featured snippets, and industry-leading Schema.

Note: results were delivered as part of the WordLift team.

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Aaron R. Winston, PhD
Strategy Director · Express Legal Funding · Client
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Aiswarya is a highly talented digital marketer with a passion for what she is doing. She will go to any extent and get the job done and learns quickly. Whether it is content writing, running digital campaigns, writing knowledge base articles, she is the go-to person.

Most importantly she is jovial, full of energy, and a joy to work with.

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Subin Sebastian
Co-Founder and CTO · SurveySparrow · Former Manager
Pixie
PIXIE ✨ You made it to the bottom! U-n-icon! 🦄 If you're here to work with Aiswarya, talk SEO, or just say hi, she'd love that. The lines below are open. I'll let you take it from here.
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Let's talk

// status: links followed

SEO collaboration, speaking opportunities, or a good conversation about content and the organic web. All links are followed here.

when I'm not SEO'ing

northern lights
chasing auroras in Lapland
nurse sharks
swam with nurse sharks. survived.
amsterdam postcard
collecting postcards since forever
greek islands
cycling through Antiparos
snorkeling
swimming with the ocean
underwater fish
found my people
vitamin sea
vitamin sea, always
hammock
not knowing what day it is
rome spritz
pasta class + spritz = Rome
creative corner
the ukulele and I are figuring it out
lippan art
mirror work and mudwork
pottery
hands in clay, head in clouds
resin heart
resin art. my inner walter white.