SEO & AI Initiative
Brainly — Product Manager
Faced with Google’s SGE update threatening organic traffic, Brainly needed a scalable strategy to defend SEO rankings and maintain traffic acquisition.
Brainly’s organic search traffic was at serious risk due to Google’s new AI search features surfacing direct answers instead of traditional search listings.
The goal was to generate SEO-optimized topical content at scale to defend and grow Brainly’s visibility while minimizing development and operational costs.
- Led the exploration of scalable SEO content generation strategies using AI and scraping tools.
- Designed a Python-based system to orchestrate topical content creation across up to 1 million subjects.
- Built AI prompting frameworks for content generation aligned with educational standards and SEO best practices.
- Negotiated and aligned cross-functional teams (AI, Content, Product, Engineering) around a lean MVP plan, cutting proposed costs drastically.
- Supervised the web scraping and QA process to ensure topical accuracy and coverage.
- Reduced projected project costs from $300K to $15K by designing in-house MVP approach.
- Achieved 93% topical coverage and 70% QA accuracy across generated content.
- Delivered full MVP framework and initial data generation plan ahead of stakeholder deadlines.