Enterprise SEO consultant with 11+ years driving growth for B2C and B2B businesses, from early-stage startups to large-scale ecommerce.

Technical & Ecommerce SEO

  • 11+ years of technical and ecommerce SEO consulting
  • 50+ B2C and B2B enterprise-level clients and large-scale websites
  • Independently grew affiliate network to $5M+ in assisted sales in 3 years See the numbersHide the numbers

    I founded this site, the main site in my affiliate network, and grew it myself. In three years, it ranked for more than 10,000 keywords, and organic search became its main source of traffic. It helped drive more than $5 million in assisted sales before I sold it in early 2021.

    • $5M+Assisted sales in 3 years
    • 10.7KPeak monthly organic visits
    • 15×Year-over-year traffic growth, 2019 to 2020
    • $150KEstimated ad value of organic traffic
    Monthly organic visits, May 2017 to March 2021
    15×in 12 months

    Monthly organic visits, May 2017 to March 2021
    MonthVisits
    2017-052
    2017-062
    2017-074
    2017-0815
    2017-0914
    2017-1036
    2017-1180
    2017-12167
    2018-01260
    2018-021267
    2018-031186
    2018-041145
    2018-05904
    2018-06872
    2018-07579
    2018-08422
    2018-09344
    2018-10362
    2018-11560
    2018-12489
    2019-01560
    2019-02698
    2019-031376
    2019-041511
    2019-051958
    2019-062443
    2019-073706
    2019-084173
    2019-095898
    2019-106247
    2019-115845
    2019-127554
    2020-018422
    2020-0210679
    2020-0310374
    2020-048500
    2020-059024
    2020-068916
    2020-079567
    2020-089488
    2020-0910384
    2020-108594
    2020-118147
    2020-129665
    2021-019009
    2021-027536
    2021-039352

    Third-party SEO tool estimates. Site anonymized.

  • Helps businesses scale through strategy, automation and AI
  • Ex-research scientist with several publications
  • Reach out at antonmalienko@gmail.com or on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)

Industry Experience

  • Insurance & Financial Services

    Beneva

    Canada's largest mutual insurer

    My main focus today. As in-house SEO & AI Marketing Advisor, I look after how Beneva shows up in Google and in AI answers, across its insurance and financial products.

    • SEO strategy
    • AI visibility (GEO)
    • Technical SEO
    • RoleSEO & AI Marketing Advisor
    • Since2024
  • Healthcare
  • Consumer Health & Nutrition

    Nestlé Health Science

    • Nature's Bounty
    • Vital Proteins

    SEO for Nestlé Health Science consumer brands in vitamins, supplements and nutrition, including Nature's Bounty and Vital Proteins.

    • Ecommerce SEO
    • Technical SEO
    • AgencyValtech
    • CategoryConsumer health
  • Industrial
  • Automotive
  • Manufacturing
  • Aftermarket
  • Alcohol & Cannabis
    • SAQSociété des alcools du Québec
    • SQDCSociété québécoise du cannabis

    SEO for Québec's two state-owned retailers: the SAQ for wine and spirits, and the SQDC for cannabis, a category with strict promotion rules where organic search carries a lot of weight.

    • Ecommerce SEO
    • Technical SEO
    • AgencyValtech
    • SectorCrown corporations
  • Education
  • Publishing
  • Luxury Hospitality

    Mandarin Oriental

    Outstanding WebsiteWebAward 2023

    SEO for the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group website, recognized as an Outstanding Website at the 2023 WebAwards (opens in a new tab).

    • Technical SEO
    • Luxury travel
    • AgencyValtech
    • SectorHotel group
  • Home Decor

Publications

Before moving into digital marketing, SEO and AI search (GEO), I was a visual neuroscience researcher at the Université de Montréal's School of Optometry, studying eye movements and visual attention. That habit of testing ideas against data still drives my work today.

Selected research publications
Title & Authors Year
Malienko, A., Harrar, V., & Khan, A. Z.
Contrasting effects of exogenous cuing on saccades and reaches.
Journal of Vision, 18(9), 4–4.
2018
Malienko, A.
Modèles d'horizons et de trajectoires de la planification des mouvements de portée du bras et des saccades.
Thesis / Mémoire.
2017
Harrar, V., Le Trong, W., Malienko, A., & Khan, A. Z.
A nonvisual eye tracker calibration method for video based tracking.
Journal of Vision, 18(9), 13–13.
2018
Dorfman, A. L., Malienko, A., Gauvin, M., Little, J. M., Cervantes, P., & Lachapelle, P.
Bringing Light to Bipolar Disorder: Peering Through the Window to the Brain.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 59, 5074.
2018

For a more complete list visit Google Scholar or Academia.edu or ResearchGate.

Get in Touch

Always open to meeting interesting people. I'm based in Montreal, so if you're around, I'm happy to grab a coffee.