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Iām Tim Soulo, and I have nine years of experience in SEO. AMA!
NOTE: This AMA has ended. Find the Q&A with Tim in the comments.

Hello TIA community!
Iām Tim Soulo, chief marketing officer at Ahrefs. Weāre a big data-powered SEO toolset, and are one of the industry leaders in digital marketing and SEO tools. A SaaS business run by a team of 40, our company was originally founded in Ukraine (where our founder, CTO, and myself are from), before moving our headquarters to Singapore six years ago.
I have nine years of experience in SEO. During this time, I had a chance to run online marketing for many small- and medium-sized companies, as well as bootstrap quite a few of my own side projects. When I joined Ahrefs three years ago, I was the only marketing person in the team. As of today, Iām managing a highly efficient marketing team of 10.
Feel free to ask me any questions related to:
- SEO
- SaaS marketing
- Content marketing
- Blogging
- Link building
- Building a marketing team from scratch
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