Loren Matthew Couse
Résumé
SEO & AEO Growth Engineer. 10 years growing organic search, from strategy to shipped Next.js code.
Experience
- 2025 – present
SEO & AEO Growth Engineer
Lugg · San Francisco, CA
- Technical SEO and front-end development, working with the founders, marketing, design, sales and paid acquisition.
- Grew organic clicks 28% and impressions 53% YoY by rebuilding site architecture, schema markup (JSON-LD: Service, FAQ) and LLM search optimization on Lugg's Next.js site.
- Improved average ranking from position 36 to 15.4 in 5 months across the full keyword footprint.
- Built a programmatic SEO system that replaced manual workflows across 250+ local landing pages.
- Wrote production Next.js and React code daily (70+ merged PRs in 12 months) and led a site-wide refactor that cut code complexity ~40%.
- Led the site migration of blog.lugg.com to lugg.com/blog and consolidated sitemaps, recovering link equity and indexation.
- Built a 12-event GA4 and GTM funnel for full quote-to-booking attribution.
- 2016 – 2024 (sold)

Founder & SEO Growth Strategy Lead
Male Q · Remote
- Founded and grew an e-commerce business to $1M+ in sales, with 90% of traffic from organic search, through technical and programmatic SEO.
- Grew traffic and sales 10x through keyword optimization.
- Cut paid ad spend 30% while increasing organic conversions through CRO testing and site performance work.
- Built Python and LLM API workflows for SEO content generation at 8x speed, with 70% less manual effort.
- Led a team across 5 countries, expanding into Chinese and Spanish-speaking markets for a further 2x increase in site traffic.
- 2022 – 2023

Market Research Project Manager
Ernst & Young · Melbourne, Australia
- Managed end-to-end market research projects for Fortune 500 clients in retail and technology, delivering insights that informed multi-million dollar marketing strategies.
- Developed and implemented data collection protocols, reducing errors by 5% and improving data accuracy for client reports.
- Trained and mentored teams of 5–7, improving onboarding efficiency and team performance by 20%.
- 2019 – 2022

Growth Marketing Manager
Dakuo Digital Innovation Center · Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Led SEO strategy for 5+ early-stage startups, driving 25% month-over-month organic growth.
- Coached startup teams on SEO, SEM, A/B testing and CRO audits to improve conversion paths.
- Set strategic timelines that took startups from concept to MVP to monetization within 12 months.
- Mentored founders on scalable team structures and effective leadership practices.
Education
- 2016 – 2018

MBA, Information Technology
National Cheng Kung University · Tainan, Taiwan
- Thesis research: efficacy of digital marketing methods in e-commerce.
- Mandarin Chinese (business level).
- 2010 – 2014

East Asian Studies, Minor in Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Boston · Boston, MA
- Languages: English (native), Mandarin Chinese (business), Japanese (intermediate).
Skills
- SEO
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy, technical SEO, schema markup (JSON-LD), site architecture, crawl and indexation, site migrations, programmatic SEO, local SEO, keyword and content strategy, link building
- AI search
- Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), LLM search visibility (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity)
- Growth and analytics
- Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), A/B testing, funnel attribution, GA4, GTM, Google Search Console, Ahrefs, SEMrush, SQL
- Engineering
- Next.js, React, TypeScript, Python, LLM APIs, AI content automation, frontend performance