About

You work directly with the person doing the work.

AIRank is founder-led. No account managers, no handoffs between departments — you talk to and work directly with me, Dragoș.

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The company

AIRank: one person, full accountability.

AIRank isn't an agency with dozens of employees and an account manager relaying messages. It's a consultancy — one person with 12+ years of SEO experience, doing all the work himself.

This model exists because it's better for you: you don't pay for the overhead of a 20-person office, you don't lose time in internal briefings, and you don't get generic reports from a junior. You get direct strategic thinking from the person who solved SEO problems on a site with over 10 million URLs.

The founder does the work, doesn't delegate it

Strategy, audit, implementation — all of it passes through the same mind that understands your context.

Zero handoffs, zero "I talked to the team"

I answer messages, I show up to calls, I deliver. One single point of contact, always.

Pricing without office overhead

No rent, no account-manager salaries. Your money goes into real work, not into structures.

The founder

The founder

Dragoș Mihai Drăgoi — Founder & GEO/AEO Consultant
Dragoș Mihai Drăgoi
Founder & GEO/AEO Consultant
LinkedIn Author profile — everything I have written →

I got into SEO in 2013. I've been through small agencies, large agencies, and 8 years and 8 months at Romania's largest e-commerce company — where I saw what it means to do SEO at scale, with real stakes.

Now I build SEO/GEO/AEO systems with AI agents — not an audit delivered once every 6 months, but an engine that keeps working.

Sep 2017 – Apr 2026 · 8 yrs 8 mo
Lead Technical SEO Architect — eMAG
Sole owner of the entire SEO infrastructure: indexing, canonicals, schema, redirects, internal linking — across every language variant. Managed 10M+ URLs. Caught 2 major incidents (site-wide noindex in 2018, parametric-URL flood in 2020) with zero traffic impact.
Jan 2016 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 2 mo
Technical SEO Specialist & SEO Manager — Digital WorkForce Agency
100+ simultaneous campaigns for major Romanian brands, zero client churn. 20+ recoveries from manual penalties, spam, and rich-snippet abuse — traffic restored in every case.
May 2015 – Jan 2016 · 9 mo
SEO Specialist — SEO Monitor Agency
Took a client from near-zero traffic to 2× their previous peak after implementing technical recommendations.
Jan 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr 5 mo
SEO Specialist — Cellz.com E-commerce
eBay: from 0 to 7 sales/day and 300 visits/day with only 31 active listings. Search-intent optimization + product titles.
12+
years in SEO
10M+
URLs managed
GEO
+ AEO native
AI
agents & automation
Crisis caught

Full-site noindex — 2018

Detected and fixed before Google deindexed a single URL. Zero organic traffic impact.

Penalty recovered

Schema bug → Google penalty resolved

Duplicated schema on PDPs triggered an automatic Google penalty. Fix + quality improvement → full recovery of affected traffic.

First mover

Romania's first FAQ rich result

Built a FAQ module for category and filtered pages — one of the first Romanian sites with a FAQ in the SERP.

Recommendations

What the people I worked with say

Seven public LinkedIn recommendations — direct managers and teammates from the teams I worked in. Quoted in full, each linked to its author’s profile.

My direct manager
I highly recommend Dragoș Drăgoi for any high-stakes Head of SEO role. Having collaborated closely, I've seen firsthand his rare ability to bridge deep Technical SEO with the future of search: GEO (Generative Engine Optimization). Dragoș is one of the few experts who truly understands and executes strategies for AI engine indexing, ensuring brand dominance across LLMs and SGE. His data-driven approach is backed by an elite command of tools like Ahrefs, SEMrush, GA4, Looker Studio, Tableau, and Qlik, transforming complex analytics into clear business growth. Beyond his technical mastery, Dragoș is a natural leader and a meticulous project manager. He is a proactive autodidact who doesn't just adapt to industry shifts—he anticipates them. For any international organization looking for a visionary to lead their organic growth and mentor a world-class team, Dragoș is the ideal choice.
Marian Ceaușescu
Platform Product Manager, eMAG
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Same team
One of the best SEO specialists with whom I've had the chance to work. He has a vast SEO knowledge, it was a pleasure working with him and I strongly believe that his experience and positive attitude will be a valuable addition to any team.
Alexandru Guzi
Digital Marketing Manager
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My direct manager
Dragos is a skilled professional with a great ability to adapt and face new challenges!
Cătălin Rusu
iGaming CMO / Growth Director
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My direct manager
Dragos este unul dintre cei mai buni specialisti SEO cu care am lucrat.
Sorin Drăghici
Business Builder
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Same team
Dragos is a great team player, has awesome analytical skills, is a great strategist and knows a lot in the technical seo field. Give him an interesting project, and he'll shine.
Adrian Duță
Senior SEO Specialist
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Colleague — indirect reporting line
Am lucrat cu Dragos in cadrul companiei DWF. Este un profesionist in ceea ce priveste munca de optimizare a cautarilor. Isi doreste foarte mult sa impartaseasca cunostintele pe care le are, dar si sa invete lucruri noi pentru situatiile care pot aparea in gestionarea unui site in raport cu motoarele de cautare.
Ștefan Manea
SEO consultant
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Same team
Dragos is a very professional and skilful guy, always eager to learn new things and improve his SEO and online marketing expertise. Working with him was a real pleasure and I highly recommend him for future projects.
Gabriel Marin
EU Performance Marketing Manager, OLX Group
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All recommendations on LinkedIn →

How I prove it — in 3 layers, without making things up

The recommendations above are about the person — colleagues and managers who worked with me directly. AIRank as a company is new, so I don't have client case studies yet, and I won't invent them. My proof of results is built on what I can prove 100%:

Authority (how I know)

Years of technical SEO at enterprise scale. I state the class of problem and the scale solved — never confidential internal figures.

Lab (what I can prove)

Real experiments on my own sites, with verifiable numbers. Zero legal risk, maximum credibility. See the Lab (in Romanian) →

Anonymized cases

"A retailer", "a DACH brand" — sector, challenge, and result, generalized. No names, no confidential figures.

Frequently asked questions

About me and about AIRank

I work alone. All the work — strategy, audit, implementation — passes through the same mind that understands your context. It's not a growth stage I'm hiding; it's the business model, chosen deliberately, so you don't pay for office overhead and account managers.

8 years and 8 months at Romania's largest e-commerce company showed me what SEO at real scale, with real stakes, looks like — but also the limits of solving problems for a single brand only. AIRank exists so that discipline can reach more clients, with the same rigor.

AIRank as a company is new — I don't have published client case studies yet, and I won't invent numbers to make it look otherwise. Today's proof rests on 3 layers: authority from 8+ years of technical SEO at eMAG (out of 12+ years in SEO), real Lab experiments (on my own sites, verifiable numbers), and the recommendations above, from people I worked with directly.

A confidentiality clause from my employment contract, strictly respected — I never publish internal figures, not even anonymized enough to stop mattering. What I can say is the class of problem and the scale I worked at (10M+ URLs, two major incidents caught), without numbers that would identify the company.

Let's talk.

A 15-minute discovery call, direct with the founder. No pitch, no lock-in.