Who is Kevin Indig?

I help companies with Growth by helping them with strategic user-acquisition, activation, and retention.

It’s important to me to be known as someone who stands for ethical and sustainable Growth – no cheap or dirty hacks.

I currently run Technical SEO @ Atlassian and mentor start-ups in and outside the German Accelerator.

In the past 10 years, I’ve helped companies acquire +100M users.

Read more about me in an Interview with Bay Area Search.

Speakings

Podcasts

My Mission

“I believe that technology can substantially improve our lives and I want to do everything in my power to make the right technology visible and available to the right people.“

I assume you’re the kind of guy who likes to break records … the SEO for Startups MozPod episode just passed the highest download count we had for first-day downloads. Brian Childs, MozPod

Senior Product Manager, Moz

Kevin is one of the best SEO specialists on the planet. Guillaume Clement

CPO/CTO, Dailymotion

Kevin provides a lot of value when it comes to analyzing big data, defining long-term strategies and making a positive impact on the business. Maxime Rauer

Head of SEO, eBay (back then)

Quick facts about me

Born and raised in Germany, living in the Silicon Valley since 2014.
Started in technical SEO, then ventured into Growth over time.
Experience on both sides, agency and in-house.
Worked with companies in B2B and B2C, from small startup to enterprise size.
Build and led teams of varying sizes with varying foci.

Upcoming speakings

09/20: Digital Olympus
End of November: Tech SEO Boost in Boston
October 23rd: SEMrush Search Awards in Sydney, Australia (I’m a Judge)

Past speakings

TheFamily: How to create massive revenue without a salesteam (Berlin, Germany)
Growth Hacker meeting: Wie SEO und Growth Hacking optimal zusammenspielen (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Digital Summit Denver, Kansas City, Salt Lake City
Growth Europe Summit
Several meetups

Podcast appearances

Experts on the Wire: How to win at in-house and large scale SEO
MozPod: SEO for startups
SearchTalkLive: How companies without sales-teams structure product&marketing
Technical SEO Podcast: In-house SEO Challenges
Entrepreneurs GSD: Optimizing Your Business for the “Aha Moment”
Growth Everywhere: SEO Expert Kevin Indig Spills the Secret to Skyrocketing Your Google Ranking

How I got into “Growth”

Born as the son of an American Doctor and a German nurse, I wanted to be a doctor all of his life.

Well, not all my life.

When turning 18, I realized that as a doctor you can help only so many people. As a “digital native”, I saw what technology can do for people. So, I set out into the tech world as a digital marketer.

The dream of becoming a doctor and helping people inspired me to acquire a set of highly valuable skills. The most important one: reverse engineering. Doctors look at symptoms, find the root cause and give a diagnose. Then they develop a plan to improve the state of the patient, not only erase the symptoms.

I do the same with companies. To me, the idea of optimizing a system is highly intriguing (as dry as it sounds).

Portfolio

This is a selection of brands I have worked with. Please note that I worked with these brands at different stages in my career on specific projects. All of these projects were team efforts. I’m happy to share more information about my involvement in these projects by request.