Bio
Lazarina Stoy is a Consultant in Organic Marketing, specializing in SEO, machine learning, and data science. She has worked with countless B2B, SaaS, and big tech teams to improve their organic positioning. Lazarina is also the Founder of MLforSEO – a machine learning training platform for organic search marketers, and Founder of Women in Marketing – Bulgaria.
As an advocate of marketing automation, Lazarina speaks on webinars and at conferences, trains marketing agency teams, and creates helpful resources for fellow SEOs to kick off their data science journey.
Character-wise, Lazarina is a progress-driven data and automation geek. She is always seeking opportunities for improving the efficiency of processes. Lazarina has a passion for spotting improvement opportunities in everything she does, making her a strong proponent of automation and machine learning in SEO processes.
Work Experience
After graduating from the University of Strathclyde, where she studied to combine her greatest professional passions – marketing and technology, Lazarina’s career always revolved around SEO strategy, data, and process automation in SEO.
While agency-side, Lazarina has worked with countless teams in B2B, SaaS, and big tech to improve their organic positioning. Since starting her SEO journey, Lazarina has managed the technical SEO and content strategy for several teams within AWS, as well as consulted on SEO and Data Analytics solutions for enterprise-level brands, amongst which Compass Real Estate, Skims, Skyscanner, Extreme Networks, Neo4j, Chemical Guys, Perkbox.
As a Senior Manager in SEO and Data Science, Lazarina has:
- Led the SEO strategy and implementation for a portfolio of organizations within different niches, part of AWS
- Consulted on SEO (strategy and implementation; technical and content), data visualization and analytics, and data science solutions for countless enterprise-level organizations
- Led projects, implementing machine learning for task automation in several digital marketing areas, including entity analysis, internal linking, sentiment analysis, automated content transformation, and social comments data analysis
- Led a team of full-time and freelance SEO analysts and consultants, technical SEO writers, and data analysts
- Led initiatives in process enhancement, process automation, and overall improvement of agency deliverables, helping boost not only the quality of the SEO & Data services but also the agencies’ revenue and profitability as a result
As an independent consultant, Lazarina:
- conducts corporate trainings on topics like SEO automation, Machine Learning in SEO, and Looker Studio Data Visualization and best practices
- advises agencies, small businesses, and SaaS companies on organic strategy (SEO strategy, omni-channel content strategy, data utilization and automation)
- consults on process automation and enhancement of agency deliverables
- creates courses and training solutions
- manages a personal website portfolio, which is comprised of websites in several niches, amongst which lifestyle, pets, and wellbeing.
Additional professional initiatives
An advocate of marketing automation, Lazarina creates helpful resources for fellow SEOs to kick off their data science journey. Lazarina is an Organic Marketing and Technology Industry Speaker, having taken the stage at world-renowned conferences in digital marketing, on topics that align with her professional mission – to make marketers’ lives easier via automation and tools everyone (regardless of their tech background) can apply in their practice.
Lazarina loves connecting the dots between theory and practice, finding patterns, and discussing data science in a way accessible for beginners. She tells stories about marketing and technology that educate, inspire, and start conversations. She has contributed to a number of well-known publications, such as Search Engine Land, Oncrawl, Moz, SE Ranking, and Wix SEO Learning Hub, as well as appeared on dozens of SEO, marketing, and technology podcasts and webinars.
Lazarina donates her time by doing professional mentorship sessions on GrowthMentor, where she helps entrepreneurs and small business owners get their footing and establish their organic marketing channels.
Lazarina recently started a community for Women in Marketing in Bulgaria with the aim of creating a space to showcase the talent of and connect with female marketers in Bulgaria, and to empower the next generation of marketers.
Lazarina is also a guest lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, where she teaches a class once per year as part of the Digital Transformation program, part of a Digital Marketing MSc.
Lazarina is also a Women Techmakers Ambassador, a program by Google.
Conference Speaking Experience & Upcoming appearances
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| Date | Location-city | Location-country | Conference (organizer) | Talk title | Type of talk | Audience | Link to deck & related resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11th-12th of October | Antalya | Turkiye | Search ‘n Stuff Antalya Conference 2024 | When, How, and Why to incorporate Machine Learning in SEO projects | Hands-on | SEO professionals | |
| 14th-15th of June | La Manga del Mar Menor, Murcia | Spain | SEonthebeach | Content transformation Framework of the Future: boost cross-platform organic visibility | Hands-on | SEO professionals | |
| 18th-19th of April | Sofia | Bulgaria | SerpConf. | How to Automate Your Content SEO Audit with the Help of Machine Learning Models | Hands-on | SEO professionals | How to Automate Your Content SEO Audit with the Help of Machine Learning Models |
| 8th – 10th April 2024 | Portorož | Slovenia | InOrbit | When to use Machine Learning Models in SEO and which ones to use | High-level | SEO professionals | When to use Machine Learning Models in SEO and Which ones to use |
| 8th November 2023 | Milan | Italy | SMXL | Beginner-friendly guide to ML-enabled automation in organic marketing | Beginner-friendly | Marketing professionals | Beginner-friendly guide to ML-enabled аutomation in organic marketing |
| 3rd March 2023 | London | United Kingdom | WTSFest | Data storytelling in SEO: Making more compelling arguments using data | Theoretical | Marketing professionals | Data Storytelling |
| 27th February 2023 | Austin | United States | Pubcon | Machine Learning in SEO – Tasks and APIs | High-level | SEO professionals | Machine Learning in Search: Google’s ML APIs vs OpenAI’s APIs for SEO Use cases |
| 7th October 2022 | Brighton | United Kingdom | BrightonSEO | How to incorporate machine learning into SERP analysis | Hands-on | SEO professionals | How to Incorporate Machine Learning in Your SERP Analysis |
| 7th April 2022 | Brighton | United Kingdom | BrightonSEO | How to incorporate machine learning in your Internal Linking Audit | Hands-on | SEO professionals | How to Implement Machine Learning in Your Internal Linking Audit |
| 25th February 2022 | London | United Kingdom | WTSFest | Beginner’s Guide to Machine Learning for SEOs | Beginner-friendly | SEO professionals | A beginner’s guide to machine learning for SEOs |
| 18th November 2021 | Barcelona | Spain | International Search Summit | Supercharging Keyword Research via Search Intent Classification In Google Data Studio | Hands-on | SEO professionals | Intent-Based International Keyword Research |
| 8th September 2021 | Brighton | United Kingdom | MeasureFest, BrightonSEO | Interactive Data Studio reporting for Core Web Vitals performance and progress-tracking using Screaming Frog and Sheets | Hands-on | SEO professionals | Interactive Core Web Vitals In Google Looker Studio |