Антон

Anton Makarenko
Link Builder
SEO professional with experience since 2018, specializing in link building in
the iGaming industry. Currently seeking a new role as a Link Builder or Team
Lead in the Link Building department, and open to opportunities as an SEO
Specialist, Drop Hunter, or related positions in the field.

Tools and services I work with:
Contact
Ahrefs, Google Search Console - for analytics, competitor research, and
Phone website audits.
[открыть контакты](см. выше в блоке «контактная информация») AI (Claude, Claude Code, Make.com, Gemini, ChatGPT) - to automate and
optimize my workflow: bulk content generation, selecting pages for link
Email insertions, finding drop domains, and more.
[открыть контакты](см. выше в блоке «контактная информация»)
Snov.io, MailFeller (+ AI) - for building email outreach campaigns and
parsing contacts and search results.
Telegram
@Meronium
Link exchanges (Collaborator, PRPosting, LinkHouse) - previously used for
article placements; lately I focus on direct outreach and use these mainly
to benchmark pricing.
Education Speed Links - for link indexing.
RankerX - for building Tier 2 links.
Linkchecker Pro, and later our in-house Link Checker at Already Media -
2016 - 2022
Master of Science
for link monitoring.
Canva, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Express, Midjourney - for image
Prydniprovska State Academy of
creation.
civil engineering and architecture
Shared domains - for acquiring links from website homepages.
Expertise ExpiredDomains.net, SpamZilla, Namecheap, GoDaddy - for finding
expired domains.
Wayback Machine - for analyzing a website's history.
Fiverr, Kwork, Upwork - freelance marketplaces; I regularly commissioned
Link Building contractors for forum and profile links.
Outreach
SEO Always eager to learn new tools that improve results.
Drop Hunting
Design
AI
iGaming

Language
English

Ukrainian
Russian
Experience
2023–2026
Already Media (iGaming)
Link Builder
iGaming industry, multiple geos: Europe, North & South America, Asia, and Africa.

Over the past three years, I've worked as a link builder both independently and as a lead -
managing several other link builders and collaborating closely with copywriters, SEO specialists,
and freelancers.

Key responsibilities:

Building monthly link-building plans - selecting donor sites, link types, and anchor text
strategy.
Competitor analysis.
Running outreach campaigns end to end: compiling and filtering donor databases, parsing
emails and search results, launching cold email campaigns, and negotiating with webmasters.
Managing article production - briefing copywriters, assigning tasks, and increasingly generating
articles at scale with AI.
Editing articles and preparing images.
Handling payment details for publications.
Monitoring link quality over time: verifying article availability and indexing status, confirming
our links are live, and checking for unwanted outbound links.
Working with link indexing services.
Identifying relevant pages for link insertions (AI-assisted).
Sourcing drop domains (AI-assisted).
Building Tier 2 links via RankerX and freelance marketplaces.
Leveraging AI tools (Claude, Claude Code, Gemini, ChatGPT) to optimize and automate daily
workflows.

Scale & impact:
Published roughly 80-150 posts per month, preparing and editing the articles myself - working
with human copywriters and generating content at scale with AI.
Helped launch 100+ websites, several highly successful, mostly single-brand projects across
dozens of regions.
Adopted AI early as the technology matured - from content generation to workflow
automation, notably integrating Claude Code with various service APIs.

Key achievement: One site I worked on generated approximately $40,000 in profit.
2022

AAX CryptoExchange

Link Builder

Worked on link building and helped the company set up its own in-house link-building department,
as the Hong Kong - based team preferred working with local staff. The project was cut short when
the company went bankrupt later that year, before the department could be fully established.

2018-2022
Cyber Shark
Content Manager, SEO, Link Building
My first role in the industry, where I learned the fundamentals of SEO from the ground up. The
company gave me broad hands-on experience - from publishing articles and writing meta tags to
link building - working with WordPress across both client and in-house websites.