MURAT YATAĞAN - VP, Growth at Brainly

I’ve led marketing, growth, and analytics at Brainly, Global Savings Group, and Google.

Since 2018, I’m the VP of Growth at Brainly, building and scaling a high-performing growth team to acquire users globally. Previously, I was a Director, SEO for GSG, overseeing 80+ platforms’ organic traffic performance for two years. Before that, I led webspam policy enforcement for EMEA markets at Google for five years.

I am also an advisor for a few startups and an investor of another few in the early stage (keeping these initiatives relatively private). Since 2015, I’ve been providing strategic counsel to startups, investors, and management teams to empower them to drive the growth mindset that will help them reach their targets. 

Besides, I’m a brand ambassador of OnCrawl, an award-winning search marketing intelligence tool. I’ve been a Head Judge for Global Search and US Search Awards and a Judge for European, UK, and MENA Search Awards since 2017.

I hold an M.Sc. in Engineering Managemen and a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering.

What do professionals say about me?

Ryan Sit - CEO @PicClick

Is Murat the best SEO in the world that nobody knows about? 

We have worked with many of the top SEOs, and Murat is surely one of the best. Murat left Google’s Quality team about 1 year ago. His top unique strengths are:

1. Full knowledge of SEO
2. Better data on what works and what does not
3. Unique ability to provide UX oriented and data-driven optimizations
4. Technical understanding, can read code

Most SEOs are good at 1 and sometimes 3 or 4. Murat’s unique ability at mastering four important areas of SEO makes him stand out as exceptionally impactful in improving a company’s SEO. 

Our company PicClick.com is very grateful to work with Murat on improving our UX, value, and search engine visibility.

Marcus Tandler - Co-Founder @Ryte

It’s rare that you come across standout SEO talent like Murat.

He is one of only a few SEO experts I know who has both a technical understanding of search engines and the imagination to break new ground with strategies and proven techniques. Better book him now before your competitor does.

Nick Cooke - Co-Founder @ The Suite

I have enjoyed working with Murat both in my previous and current roles and couldn’t recommend him more for his Growth acumen. At The Suite, both the team and I are consistently amazed about not only his breadth of information, depth of knowledge, and ability to solve problems - but also the vigor he attacks issues. Everything he advises to implement is gold - Murat is incredibly impactful and has grown our key metrics beyond what we could have imagined. Beyond that, he is a pleasure to work with, professional, fun, and intelligent, with a seemingly endless toolbox of wisdom for whatever you throw at him - a real swiss army knife for Growth!

Jim Boykin - CEO @ Internet Marketing Ninjas

First, Murat is one cool guy. He’s an organizer and a leader who gets things done… and and he’s one of the worlds most knowledgeable SEO’s and online marketers. Honestly, whenever we’re chatting, I’m super paying attention because Murat not only gets SEO, but he also gets Google better than others because of his years of experience working for Google. Murat and I have worked together on some projects while at different companies, and Murat’s leadership and SEO input on our projects were certainly a factor in the success of these projects. Murat Rocks!!!

Artur Stepaniak - CEO @Tagvenue

Murat is one of the best SEO and marketing professionals I had a pleasure to work with. I was impressed by his marketing and technical knowledge, creativity, excellent work ethic and drive. Murat was able to add value to our project since day 1, delivering fresh ideas and insights. I learned so much through our cooperation! Friendly, fun, helpful and kind Murat is a great human being as well :)

Evan Waters - Head of Marketing @OLX

Murat is the quintessential growth tactician. Leveraging deep expertise (particularly in search), he is able to translate intuition to data and data to action plans. His ability to read between the lines of search engine guidance and chart a growth playbook is simply beyond compare and it shows in the results he achieves and the millions of users he helps. He systematically and visually separates fact from fiction to guide teams to fantastic results. Beyond his exceptional technical acumen, Murat is kind, sincere, and warm. I’ve enjoyed how collegial and cooperative he is and look forward to being his growth sparring partner for years to come.