2012–2019
SEO and paid media leadership
Led search and digital programs at AILOVE / Hakuhodo for major consumer and enterprise brands, while mentoring a team of 12.
Alex Taranov · founder
Search taught me what earns attention. Building taught me how to keep it.
For more than 20 years, I have worked where search strategy, business growth, and technical execution meet. I have seen excellent companies lose trust online because their website could not show the quality of the work they already delivered.
Taranov Digital is my answer: a managed website platform that protects existing search value, makes completed projects easy to publish, and shows what happens to inquiries after launch.
20+
years in search
Alex Taranov
Founder · The Woodlands, Texas
SEO + product + code
20+
years in SEO and digital marketing
400+
SEO campaigns across Alex’s career
90+
clients and brands worked with
EB-1A
approved for professional achievements in SEO
The path to a managed website platform.
My computer science and software engineering background made the technical side natural. Search taught me that speed alone is not enough: the structure has to reflect how customers look for, compare, and trust a business.
2019–2023
Agency leadership and product building
Combined general management, SEO strategy, and hands-on product work at DIGITALMUST and the VI.WINE marketplace.
2023–now
Houston-area strategy and Taranov Digital
Brought two decades of search experience into a founder-led platform for service companies whose real-world reputation is stronger than their website.
Results that shaped the platform.
These are selected results from Alex’s prior professional SEO work—not results from the new managed website platform. They show the experience behind the decisions on structure, migration, content, and measurement.
VI.WINE
11×
daily organic traffic in 12 months
A marketplace built and optimized from the ground up, growing from 52 to 573 daily visitors from Google.
Leroy Merlin
40×
organic traffic growth
A two-year enterprise SEO program built around query coverage, content systems, and technical execution.
Petelinka
196×
search traffic growth
A structured content program with more than 800 recipe pages and Schema.org implementation.
Evidence matters more than a glossy portfolio.
New Taranov Digital platform cases will be published separately with client permission, screenshots, starting conditions, work completed, and measurable outcomes.
Published and recognized.
Alex’s work and commentary have appeared in business and industry publications, including European Business Review, Business Matters Magazine, Kommersant, Snob, and other media. He has also published practical and academic articles on digital marketing and search.
Why this matters to a client
You are not buying an anonymous template. You are working with the person who defines the structure, reviews the migration risk, configures the first version, and remains accountable for how the platform develops.
Based in The Woodlands. Working directly with established Houston-area service companies.
Based in The Woodlands, TX · projects and first meetings run remotely.
Text Alex (SMS) · [email protected]