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Rohit Sharma

Technical SEO Specialist & Founder, IndexCraft

I've spent 13+ years doing technical SEO for enterprise brands — fixing crawl issues at odd hours, obsessing over Core Web Vitals, and, more recently, figuring out how to get content cited in AI Overviews and ChatGPT. This site is where I write down what I've learned.

Enterprise SEOCore Web VitalsGA4 & Adobe AnalyticsGEO / AEOAI SearchStructured DataSEO Team LeadershipB2B & B2C SEO
13+
Years in SEO
150+
Sites Optimised
10+
Teams Led
7
Published Guides

👤 About Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma is the Technical SEO Specialist & Founder at IndexCraft, where he writes about search engine optimisation, web performance, and AI-powered search. He has spent 13+ years working in SEO across enterprise cloud platforms, SaaS products, e-commerce brands, and digital agencies — and most of what he writes here comes directly from problems he has had to solve on the job.

For most of the last decade, Rohit has worked inside large organisations where SEO has to co-exist with product launches, engineering backlogs, and multiple stakeholders pulling in different directions. At a global enterprise technology company in Bengaluru, he spent over seven years on exactly that — keeping search strategy aligned with go-to-market plans, managing SEO through a major corporate acquisition, and building out AEO and GEO frameworks for cloud and virtualisation product lines. Before that, he ran a team of 10+ analysts at a digital agency, handling organic strategy across 100+ active client accounts at once.

Rohit's work tends to focus on the infrastructure that makes SEO actually hold up at scale: crawl architecture, JavaScript rendering, structured data, and page performance. At a pan-India e-commerce brand, he brought Core Web Vitals failures down from 68% to under 9% of indexed URLs in a single quarter — a CDN rollout, WebP image pipeline, and above-the-fold rendering fixes got it there. At a B2B SaaS platform, he grew organic traffic from under 5,000 to over 300,000 monthly sessions over 30 months.

More recently, Rohit has been writing about Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) and Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) — the work of getting content cited in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. His guides on these topics have been shared by practitioners across 40+ countries and picked up in several industry newsletters.

🎯 Areas of Expertise

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Enterprise SEO StrategyEnterprise SEO roadmaps, SEO Centre of Excellence (CoE) setup, M&A SEO consolidation, stakeholder alignment, and organic revenue forecasting across global product teams.
Core Web Vitals & Page SpeedLCP, INP, and CLS diagnosis and remediation; CrUX and field data analysis; CDN strategy; WebP image pipelines; JavaScript deferral and above-the-fold rendering optimisation.
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Analytics: GA4 & Adobe AnalyticsGA4 property setup, custom event tracking, conversion modelling, BigQuery integration, Adobe Analytics implementation, and executive KPI dashboard design.
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GEO & AI Search OptimisationContent structuring for Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, and Gemini citation eligibility. Retrieval-augmented generation signals and entity optimisation.
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Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO)Featured snippets, structured data, schema markup, FAQPage strategy, People Also Ask optimisation, and zero-click search architecture for B2B and B2C brands.
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Technical SEO & JavaScript OptimisationCrawl architecture, log file analysis, canonicalisation, JavaScript and headless CMS rendering, indexation control, programmatic content, and site migration strategy.
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SEO Team LeadershipPeople management for teams of 1–10+, agency pitching and retention, SEO CoE governance, cross-channel alignment with content, performance, and paid media teams.
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Structured Data & Entity SearchJSON-LD schema implementation at scale, entity recognition strategy, knowledge graph signals, and structured data auditing across enterprise CMS platforms.

💼 Professional Experience

2026 – Present
Technical SEO Specialist & Founder
IndexCraft · Bengaluru, India
Writes and publishes the long-form guides on IndexCraft — covering Core Web Vitals, GA4, GEO, AEO, AI search, and enterprise SEO. Also handles schema implementation, E-E-A-T, and making sure the site's own technical SEO is actually good.
April 2018 – December 2025
SEO Manager
Enterprise Technology Company · Bengaluru, India
Ran SEO across 10+ global product teams at a large enterprise technology company, working closely with product and content on go-to-market timing and search strategy. When the company went through a major acquisition, he managed the SEO side of the consolidation — migrations, redirects, system unification. On the technical side, he built crawl and performance frameworks for cloud and virtualisation product lines, and in later years brought in AEO and GEO work to improve visibility in AI search results.
September 2017 – February 2018
Senior SEO Analyst
Cloud SaaS Platform · Bengaluru, India
Handled SEO and PPC for a B2B SaaS product and more than doubled organic traffic during the engagement. Worked with the design team on landing pages built to convert — both paid and organic — which made a noticeable difference to lead quality.
September 2016 – September 2017
Senior SEO Analyst
Digital Marketing Agency · Bengaluru, India
Managed SEO and PPC teams running campaigns for global brands across multiple markets. Led audits and competitive research across a varied client portfolio, and fronted new business pitches that brought in major international clients in retail and software.
June 2015 – September 2016
SEO Team Leader
IT & Digital Services Company · Bengaluru, India
Managed a team of 10 SEO analysts and was responsible for organic strategy across more than 100 active client accounts. Put proper processes in place for reporting, client comms, and campaign execution — the kind of structure that keeps things from falling apart at that scale. Consistent results helped with both new business and client retention.
December 2013 – December 2014
Project Manager (SEO)
Digital Agency · Kolkata, India
Led a small team delivering SEO and web development projects across different client verticals. Coordinated analytics, social media, and content work to keep campaigns coherent across channels.
December 2010 – April 2013
Project Manager (SEO)
Web Technology Company · Patna, India
Managed a team of SEO analysts and mentored junior staff, keeping quality consistent and projects on schedule. Handled on-page and technical recommendations across client sites.

🎓 Education

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MBA — Information Technology
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B.Tech — Electronics and Communication Engineering