About KeyRealSEO

We’re the SEO Team
You’ve Been Looking For

A small team of senior SEO professionals who’ve been in the trenches, built sites from scratch, and grown businesses across every major industry. No juniors. No outsourcing. Just experienced hands on your account.

Built Out of Frustration With Bad Agencies

KeyRealSEO was founded because our team grew tired of watching businesses get burned by agencies that overpromised, under-delivered, and hid behind vanity metrics and lock-in contracts.

We’d spent years inside those agencies — and inside in-house SEO teams at tech companies — watching the same patterns play out: junior staff running accounts with no real strategy, link schemes that later caused penalties, monthly reports that said everything was “trending in the right direction” while organic traffic flatlined.

So we built the agency we always wished existed. One where the same senior people who pitch your account are the ones doing the work. Where every recommendation has data behind it. Where results are the only thing that matters.

Today we work with 20+ clients across e-commerce, SaaS, local businesses, and professional services. Our average client has been with us for 18 months — and most came from a referral.

2020
Year Founded
20+
Clients Served
18mo
Avg. Client Tenure
98%
Retention Rate

The Team

Senior Specialists, Not Account Managers

Every person on your account is a specialist with years of hands-on experience. When you email us, a senior SEO responds — not a project coordinator.

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Kirill Kulagin

Senior SEO Strategist
CEO & Founder

10+ years of hands-on SEO experience spanning e-commerce, SaaS, and local markets. Started as an in-house SEO engineer and built KeyRealSEO after seeing too many businesses get taken advantage of by agencies that didn’t know what they were doing. Obsessed with technical architecture and content strategy that actually converts.

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Kris

Marketing Specialist
Co-Founder

Digital marketing strategist with deep experience across organic and paid channels. Leads content strategy, PPC campaigns, and conversion optimization for our client base. Former head of growth at a venture-backed B2B SaaS company where he scaled organic traffic from 2,000 to 80,000 monthly visitors.

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Irina

SEO Specialist
Technical Lead

Technical SEO expert who lives in Search Console, crawl logs, and Core Web Vitals dashboards. Specializes in large-scale site migrations, international SEO with hreflang implementation, JavaScript rendering issues, and structured data that wins rich snippets. Background in software development gives her an edge on technical implementations.

What We Stand For

Our Core Values

The principles that shape every client engagement, every strategy, and every decision we make.

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Results Over Optics

We optimize for the metrics that grow your business — organic sessions, keyword rankings, leads, and revenue. Not vanity metrics that look good on slides but don’t pay your employees.

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Radical Transparency

You see everything we do and why we do it. Monthly reports cover what moved, what didn’t, the experiments we’re running, and the honest reason something failed when it does.

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Long-Term Thinking

We don’t take shortcuts that risk your domain. Every strategy we build is designed to compound — the work we do in month 1 is still paying dividends in month 24.

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Earned Loyalty

Month-to-month engagements only. We earn your continued business with results, not contracts. If we’re not delivering, you should leave — but we make sure you never want to.

Tools & Partners

We Use the Best Tools in the Industry

Our tech stack is built around accuracy, speed, and insight depth — the same tools used by the world’s top SEO teams.

SEO PowerSuite
Ahrefs
Semrush
Screaming Frog
Google Search Console
Google Analytics 4
Surfer SEO
Clearscope
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SEO PowerSuite Partner

We’re proud to use and recommend SEO PowerSuite for in-depth rank tracking, backlink analysis, and technical site audits. It’s the most comprehensive desktop SEO platform available — and a core part of how we deliver accurate, reliable data to every client.

Let’s Talk

Work With a Team That Actually Cares

No sales calls with account executives who hand you off to juniors. You talk to the people who will work your account from day one.

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