DSDan Sweeting

Dan Sweeting

SEO and Google Ads specialist who builds websites from scratch

I'm based in Newcastle and work fully remote. I run SEO campaigns for agency clients at Bird Marketing, and outside of work I build and grow my own sites. Most of what's on this page is live, so you can open it and check the numbers.

Dan Sweeting

Career So Far

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  • 20k+monthly sessions on F1 Salaries
  • 3msearch impressions in its first 8 months
  • £28kGoogle Ads spend managed across 6 campaigns
  • 200+clients worked on through Yell.com

Projects

Sites I've built and grown myself, plus client work. Open any of them for what I did and the results.

F1 Salaries homepagef1salaries.com

Salary, bonus, net worth and contract estimates for all 22 Formula 1 race drivers, plus team and sponsor pages. Built and run by me.

20k+monthly sessions
3mimpressions in 8 months
NBA Salaries homepagenbasalaries.com

Player salaries and team payrolls for the 2026-27 NBA season.

544player pages
30team payrolls
Own Trade homepageowntrade.co.uk

My own service giving UK trades a free website with their Google Ads.

£225a month for site and ads
WD Property Maintenance homepagewdpropertymaintenance.com

New website and a rebuilt Google Ads account for a roofer in Essex.

33pages built
3calls on day one
+374%sessions growth
Sold

A travel and lifestyle site about Ireland that I grew and later sold.

15kmonthly visits

Client SEO Results

Growth in Google clicks, impressions and sessions on three of the agency campaigns I run.

Garden Room Builder

B2C in Essex on Wix

Heavy Google Ads spend and slow approval on new content. The growth helped them hire 2 staff and open the first garden room showroom in the region.

Clicks
+155%
Impressions
+98%
Sessions
+98%

Turbo Supplier

B2C and B2B in Essex on WooCommerce

New and reconditioned turbos, with content scaled out across product categories. Three record months in a year meant they could take on more staff.

Clicks
+55%
Impressions
+141%
Sessions
+1,360%

Wholesale Solar Supplier

B2B on Shopify

Panels, batteries and inverters for installers, growing through organic search and Merchant Centre with no paid ads. The growth funded a new warehouse.

Clicks
+93%
Impressions
+118%
Sessions
+631%

Bars use a log scale so the biggest jumps still fit. Client names are left out on purpose.

Experience

Mar 2024-Now

SEO Specialist

Bird Marketing, fully remote
  • Plan, run and report on 8-12 B2B and B2C SEO campaigns with monthly budgets of £1k-3k.
  • Handled 6 PPC campaigns with £28k in ad spend, and ran the agency's own Google Ads while they hired.
  • Run GEO strategies for 2 clients worth £3k a month, aimed at getting cited in AI answers.
  • Introduced email marketing for clients and grew billing on the back of campaign results.
Alongside Bird

Google Ads and Web Builds

Freelance and Own Trade
  • Manage Google Ads for two freelance clients on monthly retainers.
  • Design, build and host websites for trades through Own Trade, starting with WD Property Maintenance.
  • Build and run my own sites, F1 Salaries and NBA Salaries, from research to monetisation.
Sep 2022-Mar 2024

SEO and Content Consultant

Freelance
  • Clients included Immigration Advice Service, Total Law, Birmingham Immigration Lawyers and Hot Cars.
  • Ran site audits, competitor gap analysis and keyword research.
  • Wrote keyword-led content to detailed briefs.
Jul 2021-May 2022

SEO and Content Executive

Bigg, white label for Yell.com
  • Started as a content executive writing 5,000-10,000 words a day for clients in every kind of industry.
  • Moved into SEO audits, keyword research and monthly reporting across 200+ clients.

Skills and Tools

SEO

  • Keyword research
  • Technical SEO
  • Site audits
  • Site migrations
  • Local SEO
  • Link building
  • Programmatic content
  • GEO and AEO

Google Ads

  • Search campaigns
  • Keyword and negative lists
  • Conversion tracking
  • Call tracking
  • Merchant Centre

Site Building

  • WordPress
  • Breakdance
  • ACF
  • WooCommerce
  • Elementor
  • Shopify
  • Wix
  • HTML and CSS

Data and Reporting

  • GA4
  • Search Console
  • Looker Studio
  • Ahrefs
  • Semrush
  • Screaming Frog
  • PageSpeed Insights

Content and Email

  • Content strategy
  • AI-assisted content
  • MailerLite
  • Beefree
  • Canva

Hosting and AI

  • Cloudflare
  • Cloudways
  • Building with Claude

Education

2018-2021

University of Bristol

BA History with First Class Honours

2016-2018

St Mary's Catholic School

A Levels in English Literature (A*), History (A) and Theology (A)

Contact

Email is the quickest way to reach me. I'm happy to talk about marketing roles, freelance work or anything on this page.

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