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Hayden Schuster

Senior SEO Manager at Optimal, a OneMagnify company · SEO and AI visibility for enterprise brands · Austin, Texas

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Summary

Senior SEO Manager leading SEO and AI visibility for enterprise brands across many industries. I start from what customers search for, build the site structure and content that answers it, and measure it in Google, Bing and AI answers.

I also run my own sites as a public test bed. Across them, search clicks went from 1.7K a month to 24K in 5 months (April 2026 to September 2026). The sites have been in search for 3 to 8 months, as of Oct 10, 2026. Every month, every site (public evidence)

Experience

Senior SEO Manager

Optimal, a OneMagnify company

May 2026 to now · Austin, Texas

  • Own SEO and AI visibility strategy for enterprise client programs, spanning traditional organic search and emerging answer-engine surfaces including AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.
  • Build structured data, content and reporting programs so brands get cited in AI answers as well as ranked in Google.
  • Lead cross-functional strategy with content, engineering, and analytics teams to translate the shifting search ecosystem into measurable visibility, citation, and traffic outcomes.
  • Lead the SEO side of client meetings with executives: what to change, in what order, and how we'll know it worked.

Client names and numbers stay private. How I work at Optimal

Adpearance (now part of Catalyst IQ)

Jun 2021 to May 2026 · Portland, Oregon

  1. Senior Digital Marketing SEO Specialist Jul 2023 to May 2026
    • Led SEO strategy across five enterprise website launches, preserving and expanding organic visibility during complex site migrations and platform transitions.
    • Designed repeatable SEO systems that scaled across large multi-brand websites, aligning technical foundations, content architecture, and internal linking frameworks.
    • Led SEO in client meetings with executives and turned what the search data showed into growth plans.
  2. Digital Marketing SEO Specialist Jun 2021 to Jul 2023

SEO and Search Strategy Lead

Rose City Marketing, and my own sites

May 2020 to now

On nights and weekends I build and run my own sites, where I can test ideas and show every number. Each one has a case study: what I built, what happened, and the miss when there was one.

Every site, with its numbers month by month

What my own sites show so far

  1. Small sites can grow fast when every page answers one question well. The growth, month by month (public evidence)
  2. Bing and Copilot are worth the work. Some of my sites get most of their visits there, not from Google. The WireRef story (public evidence)
  3. One great page can carry a site. My biggest site took off from a page built before anyone else had the answer. How it happened (public evidence)
  4. Misses teach the most. When a site lost its place in Google, I changed my checks, not just the pages. What I changed (public evidence)
Where I started, 2018 to 2020
  • Clark County Event Center, my first marketing job Jan 2018 to Aug 2020
    1. Digital Marketing Specialist Sep 2018 to Aug 2020
    2. Marketing Assistant Jan 2018 to Sep 2018
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