About Dmytro Verzhykovskyi

Dmytro Verzhykovskyi is a digital marketing strategist who has practiced search engine optimization since 2012 and specializes in technical SEO and AI search. Dmytro builds and runs SEO programs for luxury and premium brands, manages multilingual portfolios in five languages including right-to-left Arabic, and since 2024 has worked on AI search visibility alongside classic Google rankings.

seodima.com is his New York technical and AI SEO practice. A companion practice serves Southern California at seoexpertorangecounty.com, and his full career record, with a source cited for every claim, is published at verzhykovskyi.com.

Career in Brief

Dmytro Verzhykovskyi has worked in digital marketing since 2012 and has specialized in luxury interior-design and furniture brands since 2014. He is based in Irvine, California, and registered Pinnacli LLC, his consultancy, with the California Secretary of State in March 2025. Pinnacli LLC is listed in the Google Partners directory.

• Digital Marketing Lead for the Antonovich Design luxury interior-design group in Dubai since 2014.
• Leading Digital Marketing Specialist for Antonovych Design and Antonovych Home in Kazakhstan since 2015.
• Head of Digital Marketing (independent contractor) for Solomia Home, a luxury furniture retailer in Dubai, since December 2023.
• Digital marketing strategy for Modenese Gastone, an Italian luxury furniture house, since 2024.
• Builder and operator of Sextaris, a keyword and search-demand intelligence SaaS that also runs as an app inside ChatGPT.

Technical Background and Toolkit

Dmytro Verzhykovskyi holds an associate degree in computer engineering and does technical SEO hands-on, so the fixes in the technical SEO case studies were implemented in production code, server configs, and CDN rules rather than handed over as a slide deck.

• Platforms. WordPress, Laravel, Astro, and custom PHP sites, including catalogs with thousands of products in several languages.
• Hosting and edge. Amazon S3, CloudFront and CloudFront Functions, AWS Lambda, nginx, and Cloudflare firewall and rate-limiting rules.
• Search data. The Google Search Console API and its bulk export to BigQuery, Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, and server and CDN log analysis.
• Testing. Playwright browser tests for rendering, tracking, and redirects, and Lighthouse and Chrome field data for Core Web Vitals.
• AI search. Schema.org entity markup, llms.txt files with plain-text query endpoints, and AI crawler verification against the IP ranges OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google publish.

Awards and Professional Recognition

Independent professional bodies have recognized Dmytro Verzhykovskyi's work through juried awards, senior membership, and jury invitations. The ECDMA Global Awards 2025 gave him Gold in the Best SEO Professional category and Silver in the Digital Marketing Professional of the Year category, published on the ECDMA winners page, and the ECDMA Council approved his Senior Membership in December 2024.

• Juror, ECDMA Global Awards 2025.
• Juror, AdForum PHNX Awards 2025, voted in the medal-deciding second round.
• Judge, Orpetron Web Design Awards (web design, an allied field), listed on the public judges roster.
• Judge, The Independent Agency Awards 2026, Round 1.
• Member, Ukrainian Marketing Association, since January 2025.

Publications and Research

Dmytro Verzhykovskyi publishes research and trade articles on SEO and digital marketing for the luxury segment, under ORCID 0009-0003-2632-7757. His writing on e-commerce SEO dates back to a 2014 Habr.com research article on breadcrumb navigation across e-commerce sites.

• Integration of Virtual and Augmented Reality into Digital Marketing of the Luxury Segment, sole author, Business Navigator, Issue 1(78), 2025, pp. 119–125, DOI 10.32782/business-navigator.78-20.
• The Impact of Instagram on the Development of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses in Ukraine, co-author, Pacific Business Review International, Vol. 17, Issue 8, February 2025, pp. 117–132.
• Content-Driven SEO Strategy for Luxury Brands: Finding the Balance Between Uniqueness and Search Optimization, sole author, Marketing in Ukraine (Ukrainian Marketing Association), No. 1–2 (135), 2025, pp. 72–77.

Media

Dmytro Verzhykovskyi has given interviews on SEO and digital marketing for luxury brands to trade media, including a feature interview with the Ukrainian marketing outlet MMR.ua.

• Interview: feature interview with Dmytro Verzhykovskyi on promoting luxury brands, Ukrainian marketing trade outlet MMR.ua, January 20, 2025, by Olga Podshyvalova.

Certifications

Dmytro Verzhykovskyi holds current Google certifications issued through Google Skillshop, Semrush Academy certificates, and LinkedIn Marketing Academy certifications, alongside his associate degree in computer engineering. The engineering background is why technical SEO at seodima.com goes down to server configuration, not just recommendations in a slide deck.