Hemanth Balaji

Hemanth Balaji, Freelance SEO Consultant

Freelance SEO Consultant · London, UK

LinkedIn hemanth.balaji@gmail.com

I am Head of SEO at Frasers Group, where I lead SEO across retail brands including Sports Direct, House of Fraser and Flannels. Before that I led SEO at iSmash, New Look and Wrappz. Alongside that role I take on independent consultancy and build free SEO tools.

I also build SEO tools to solve real problems at scale. Two examples are AI Prompt Generator, which helps turn real website content into structured prompts for AI visibility and content workflows, and Get GSC Data, which helps analyse Google Search Console data more efficiently and uncover opportunities around CTR, keyword trends and brand vs non-brand performance.

Professional Experience

Feb 2019 – Present – Head of SEO, Frasers Group, London
As the lead for Frasers Group's SEO team, I'm spearheading the development of long-term SEO & AI strategies across multiple retail brands, including Sports Direct, House of Fraser, Flannels, Studio, GAME and more. Responsibilities include developing SEO roadmaps, content strategies, PR campaigns, technical audits, and cross-functional implementation across the group.

Sept 2018 – Jan 2019 – SEO Manager, iSmash, London
Owned the SEO strategy end-to-end, leading in-house and agency teams to achieve significant improvements in visibility and bookings through full-funnel content strategy and technical SEO initiatives.

Apr 2014 – Sept 2018 – SEO Marketing Manager, New Look, London
Managed global SEO performance with a six-figure budget, leading both in-house and agency resources. Successfully positioned New Look at the top of the UK fashion leaderboard for commercial search terms in 2018.

Jul 2013 – Mar 2014 – SEO Expert, Wrappz, London
Led a major SEO recovery and link cleanup programme (35,000+ unnatural links) to restore rankings, traffic, and sales after previous Black Hat SEO activity.

Oct 2010 – Jun 2013 – SEO Consultant, Pudu Lifestyle, Bangalore
Developed and implemented full-scale SEO and social media strategies for the ecommerce business from the ground up.

SEO Tools I've Built

Free, browser-based SEO tools. Each runs at its own address, with its own interface.

Ecommerce · AI shopping

AI Product Feed Readiness Checker

Validate your ecommerce product feed against the Google Merchant Center specification — the same feed foundation that powers UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol) on Google's AI surfaces and conversational shopping. Checks required, recommended, conversational and AI-readiness attributes in your browser. No data uploaded.

AI search · AEO/GEO

AI Visibility Prompt Generator

Generate highly relevant prompts that reflect how users would ask AI tools about your blog content. Track performance in AI search — AEO, GEO, and LLM results.

Content QA

Free AI Text Detector & Remover

See what's really inside text from ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini: hidden characters, smart quotes and Markdown leftovers, cleaned in your browser. Nothing uploaded.

GSC · GA4

Connect Google Search Console and GA4 to analyse brand vs non-brand traffic, detect keyword cannibalization, benchmark CTR, and track organic conversions — all processed in your browser.

Ecommerce content

PLP & PDP FAQ Generator

Generate SEO-focused FAQs, category copy and supporting content for ecommerce PLPs and PDPs. Powered by search intelligence, AI Overviews, Reddit discussions and customer search behaviour.

These tools are processed in your browser. See each tool's own page for its data-handling details.

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