Hi, I'm Maksim Liakh, an experienced seo engineer and web developer.
I know how to solve any website related problem!

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Maxim Liakh, author of the website webliakh.com

Areas of expertise

01

SEO

Technical SEO is my core — six+ years optimizing architecture, indexing, and site moves through data-led experiments. Broad domain experience and hands-on migrations mean I tackle both routine issues and unusual edge cases, identify growth points for projects

02

Web Dev

I’ve been building websites for over five years, developing in PHP (Laravel, WordPress), HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I design and implement solutions that both serve business goals and support strong SEO performance, boost conversions, and scalability

My stack and technologies

Every tool in this stack shares a single purpose: uncovering a website's weak spots and specific issues hidden from plain sight — from indexing problems to loading speed bottlenecks that directly affect search rankings. Whether it's content rendering in search results, a technical failure in analytics, or a bug in the code, each one is designed to detect its own type of malfunction

Category Technologies Use cases
Performance & Core Web Vitals PageSpeed Insights, Lighthouse, GTmetrix, Chrome UX Report (CrUX), Cloudflare Observatory Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) optimization; Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) remediation; Interaction to Next Paint (INP) analysis; real-user monitoring (RUM) vs lab data correlation; performance budget enforcement
Technical SEO & Crawling Screaming Frog, JavaScript rendering audit (Chrome DevTools), Clarity, Logs, W3 validator Scale crawl analysis with custom extraction rules; JavaScript indexability audit; crawl budget optimization; identification of orphan pages and redirect chains; log file analysis for bot behavior patterns
Analytics & Data Intelligence Google Analytics 4, Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, Yandex Webmaster, Looker Studio, BigQuery Cross-domain tracking setup; custom GA4 events for SEO engagement; BigQuery + GSC data blending for query-level CTR analysis; automated anomaly detection in organic traffic; attribution modeling
Rank Tracking & SERP Intelligence Ahrefs, SEMrush, SERP API SERP feature tracking (featured snippets, PAA, video carousels); competitor SERP share of voice analysis; geo-specific rank monitoring; API-driven daily position tracking at scale; SERP volatility analysis
Content Optimization & Research Ahrefs Content Explorer, SEMrush Topic Research, AlsoAsked, AnswerThePublic Content gap analysis against top-ranking competitors; NLP-driven content brief creation; topical authority mapping; search intent classification; content decay detection and refresh prioritization
Structured Data & Semantic SEO Schema.org vocabulary, JSON-LD, Google's Rich Results Test, Schema Markup Validator, Microdata Custom schema implementation (Article, Product, FAQ, HowTo, Event, JobPosting); entity optimization for Knowledge Graph; dynamic schema generation server-side; schema error monitoring and validation at scale
SEO Automation & Engineering AI skills, Google Apps Script, Regex, cURL, Postman, Zenno Automated meta title/description generation; bulk hreflang validation scripts; internal linking opportunity detection via NLP; automated broken link monitoring; SEO test automation in CI/CD pipelines
Back-end & CMS PHP, WordPress, Laravel, Node.js, Python, SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL), REST API, GraphQL Server-side rendering (SSR) audit, CMS SEO-optimization, database-driven content analysis, API-first architecture review, dynamic rendering implementation
Front-end & Frameworks HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, React, Vue.js, Next.js SPA SEO audit, hydration issues detection, critical CSS optimization, lazy loading implementation, JS-framework indexability analysis
Other - For various other goals and tasks, tools and solutions are selected on a case-by-case basis depending on project requirements, client infrastructure, and specific SEO challenges