OFF-PAGE SEO & LINK BUILDING SPECIALIST
ABDUL SHAKOOR
Abdul Shakoor is a link building strategist with 6+ years in SEO, not a guest-post freelancer, but someone who came up through SEO itself, specialized in healthcare (YMYL) local SEO across Australia, the UK, and the US, then moved into link building where that grounding actually matters. He’s led link building for a Canadian healthcare agency managing 30 client websites and for a proprietary trading firm, taking its traffic from 5K to 15K in eight months. 50+ completed projects across healthcare, fintech, and SaaS.
ABOUT ABDUL SHAKOOR
Most link builders start as link builders. Abdul Shakoor didn’t and it shows in how he approaches the work.
He started his career as an SEO specialist, cutting his teeth by launching and ranking his own personal websites before moving into local SEO. That’s where he found his specialty: local SEO for the healthcare sector, one of the most demanding categories in search because of Google’s YMYL (Your Money or Your Life) standards. Healthcare content and healthcare backlinks get scrutinized harder than almost anything else in SEO, and that’s exactly the environment Abdul built his early career in, working on large-scale healthcare projects across Australia, the UK, and the US.
That specialization opened doors most SEOs never get near. He worked directly with Wix Enterprise clients as an SEO specialist, and later joined a Canadian healthcare agency serving dental clinics, where he managed SEO across 30 client websites, first as SEO specialist, then as Head of the agency’s Link Building Department. The results weren’t just rankings: client sites landed in Google’s AI Overviews and held top positions in a category where trust signals are everything.
FROM SEO GENERALIST TO LINK BUILDING STRATEGIST
That background is exactly why Abdul doesn’t build links the way most link builders do.A link builder who’s never sat inside an SEO strategy treats every placement the same, same pitch, same target list, same generic “authority site” criteria, regardless of what the campaign actually needs. Abdul approaches it differently, because he’s spent years on the other side of that table: mapping keyword strategy, understanding technical SEO constraints, and knowing exactly what a site needs to rank not just what backlink a directory says looks good on paper.
That’s the difference between a guest poster and a link building strategist. One executes a checklist. The other maps a strategy, vets every site against what the campaign actually needs, and where useful advises the broader SEO team on how link building fits into the bigger ranking picture, not just as an isolated task.
THE PROP FIRM CAMPAIGN
The clearest proof of that approach: Abdul served as Head of the Link Building Department for a proprietary trading firm for eight months. It’s one of the hardest niches in link building, financial publishers vet outreach far more strictly than almost any other vertical, and most link builders won’t touch the space at all.
In those eight months, he took the site’s traffic from 5K to 15K owning the campaign end-to-end: SEO outreach, link building strategy, execution, manual website vetting, content generation, and final placements. Not one slice of the process handed off to someone else the entire pipeline, run by one strategist who understood both the SEO and the outreach side of the equation.
TRACK RECORD
Across his career, Abdul has completed 50+ link building and SEO projects, concentrated in three sectors where outreach standards are unusually strict: healthcare, fintech, and SaaS. Each of those niches punishes shortcuts, low-effort guest posts and bulk-bought links get ignored by the sites that actually matter, or worse, flagged as spam. Abdul’s process is built for exactly that environment: strategy first, manual vetting always, execution that holds up under scrutiny.
WHAT ABDUL DOES
Today, Abdul provides SEO link building services built around strategy, not volume:
- Link building strategy & planning campaigns mapped to what a site actually needs to rank, not a generic package
- Backlink building manual outreach and placement, vetted for relevance and authority
- Competitor research & execution backlink gap analysis that turns into an actual target list, not just a report
- Premium media placements access to top-tier media outlets for high-authority link placements
- Press releases writing and distribution for announcements, launches, and company news
Six years in SEO. A specialization in the hardest niches in the industry. A track record of taking real traffic from 5K to 15K, not just placing links and hoping. That’s what a strategy call with Abdul Shakoor gets you.