SEO Consultant · Product Advisor · Speaker · Author · Community Builder
The technical SEO’s technical SEO. ↗
I’ve spent years building the tools you use every day, driving massive growth for some of the biggest companies in the world, and educating the search industry. Now you can hire me to fix your toughest search challenges.
Built tools & led SEO at
Independent. Senior. Hands-on.
I’m an independent SEO consultant in Raleigh, NC. Formerly Product Advisor, Technical SEO, and Brand Ambassador at Ahrefs, and a Technical SEO at IBM for many years before that. I helped define the ‘Search Marketing Strategist’ role for the US Department of Labor, co-wrote Ahrefs’ SEO Book for Beginners, led the SEO chapter of the 2021 Web Almanac, and was the technical review editor for The Art of SEO. I run a Technical SEO Slack group, moderate r/TechSEO, and help run the Tech SEO Connect conference.
Hire me to fix it.
SEO Troubleshooting
Bring me your single hardest SEO problem and I'll give you a senior, focused answer — fast.
Technical SEO Audits
A prioritized, engineering-ready audit that tells you what to fix first and what to ignore.
Site Migrations
De-risk replatforms, redesigns, and domain moves so you keep the rankings you've earned.
Programmatic SEO
Build large numbers of pages from data without tripping quality or crawl systems.
JavaScript SEO
Make sure engines can crawl, render, and index content that depends on JavaScript.
Hreflang & International
Fix the international signals most audits miss, across regions and languages.
Data studies & guides.
The Beginner's Guide to Technical SEO
Ahrefs
Enterprise SEO Strategies For Maximum Growth
Ahrefs
ChatGPT Has 12% of Google's Search Volume but Google Sends 190x More Traffic
Ahrefs
Anonymized Queries Make Up Nearly Half of Google Search Console Traffic
Ahrefs
JavaScript SEO
patrickstox.com
#539 — Cutting-Edge AEO Strategies
Marketing Speak
Awards, books & community.
- 2018 Search Engine Land Awards — Finalist: SEO Speaker of the Year & SEO Contributor of the Year
- Judge — US Search Awards (2017, 2018, 2019)
- Judge — UK Search Awards (2017, 2018, 2019)
- Judge — Interactive Marketing Awards (2018, 2019)
- Judge — SEMrush AU Search Awards (2019)
- Barry Schwartz's 'Honor an SEO' series (nominated by Paul Shapiro)
- Danny Goodwin — '140 of Today's Top SEO Experts to Follow'
- Recommended to follow for Technical SEO by Gary Illyes (Google) and Bill Slawski
- 2 of the top SEO columns of 2016 on Search Engine Land; 1 top paid column (2016); 1 top Link Week column (2015)
- Helped define the official 'Search Marketing Strategist' role for the US Department of Labor
- Co-author — Ahrefs' SEO Book for Beginners
- Lead author & editor — Web Almanac SEO chapter (2021); reviewer (2022)
- Technical Review Editor — The Art of SEO (4th Edition)
- Co-founder — Tech SEO Connect conference
- Founder — Technical SEO Slack group (with JR Oakes & Paul Shapiro)
- Moderator — Reddit r/TechSEO
- Co-founder — Triangle SEO Meetup, Raleigh SEO Conference & Beer & SEO Meetup (one of the most successful SEO meetups in the US)
Don’t take my word for it.
Public praise from across the search community.
“People I (re)discovered today at SMX and you might want to follow: @patrickstox”
“Whom would you recommend people follow to learn about Technical SEO? Mine: …@patrickstox…”
“Superb deck about many of the technical aspects that can go wrong with international SEO. You really need to see these slides.”
“@patrickstox doing @IBM proud. Great preso.”
“If I posted about a new method and @patrickstox said "I've been doing this for a while," I'd actually believe him. THAT'S HIGH PRAISE.”
“My new speaking goal is to be as relaxed and have as much fun as Patrick does when he is speaking.”
“Having met and chatted to @patrickstox along with having just watched his #techseoboost presso… what a 1000% honest guy. Top bloke!”
“Just found this EXCELLENT post on internal link visualisations.”
“I love @patrickstox. Always push the limits and take advantage of loopholes Google provides.”
“This guy @patrickstox is one of my SEO heroes!”
“I just linked all of @patrickstox's articles as "Advanced Technical SEO Stuff" for my intern to read.”
“It's a true pleasure to attend your sessions. Not only fun but also informative. And I am not exaggerating.”
Tell me your toughest search problem.
I read every message myself. The $1,000 one-question fix is the easiest place to start.
Prefer email? patrick@patrickstox.com