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Hayden Schuster

Senior SEO Manager at Optimal, a OneMagnify companySEO and AI visibility for enterprise brandsAustin, Texas

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In the industry
8+ yearsMarketing and SEO
My own sites
24K monthly search clicksSeptember, up 21% from August
What I own at Optimal
SEO and AI visibility strategy for enterprise brandsSenior SEO Manager at Optimal, a OneMagnify company

Summary

I build SEO systems for enterprise brands navigating the shift from search engines to answer engines. Technical foundations, content architecture, and discoverability frameworks that get content found, understood, and chosen wherever search happens next. The system I run (opens a public page)

I also run my own sites as a public test bed for the same system. Across them, Google and Bing sent 24K search clicks in September, up 21% from August. Every month, every site (opens a public page)

Experience

Senior SEO Manager at Optimal

A OneMagnify company

Full-time since May 2026 in Austin, Texas

Optimal, a OneMagnify company | May 2026 to present | Austin, Texas

Client names and numbers stay private.

The full story: how I work at Optimal

Adpearance (now part of Catalyst IQ)

Jun 2021 to May 2026Portland, Oregon

Where SEO became my whole job.

  1. Senior Digital Marketing SEO Specialist Jul 2023 to May 2026
  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 present

Build and run my own content and reference sites as a public test bed for the same SEO system, using AI tools (Claude Code) under my direction.

On nights and weekends I build and run my own sites, a few of them unnamed, with the same system I use at work. Each has a case study on haydenschuster.com, misses included. I use AI tools like Claude Code to build and check faster; the strategy, the standards and every call are mine.

Every case studyThe checks behind every site

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 (opens a public page) Get understood
  2. Bing and Copilot are worth the work. Some of my sites get most of their visits there, not from Google. The WireRef story (opens a public page) Get found
  3. Misses teach the most. When a site lost its place in Google, I changed my checks, not just the pages. What I changed (opens a public page) Get found

Clark County Event Center

Jan 2018 to Aug 2020Vancouver, Washington

My first marketing job, and where I found my love for SEO.

Digital Marketing Specialist from Sep 2018, after Marketing Assistant, and where I found my love for SEO: event marketing across social media, paid ads, newsletters, digital design and sponsorship fulfillment.

  1. Digital Marketing Specialist Sep 2018 to Aug 2020
    • Marketed every kind of event the center hosted.
    • Ran social media, paid search and social ads, and the email newsletters.
    • Designed the digital pieces: ads, social graphics and emails.
    • Fulfilled the digital side of sponsorships.
  2. Marketing Assistant Jan 2018 to Sep 2018

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