Kristina Azarenko, SEO expert

Kristina Azarenko

Founder of MarketingSyrup

Kristina Azarenko is an SEO expert based in Toronto, Canada.

Kristina Azarenko is a technical and ecommerce SEO consultant based in Toronto and the founder of MarketingSyrup. She has spent around a decade working in house, at agencies and independently, and now teaches through the MarketingSyrup SEO Academy and as a LinkedIn Learning instructor with a reported 70,000 students. She contributes to Search Engine Land and Search Engine Journal and publishes the SEO Shop Up newsletter.

Based in
Toronto, Canada
Specialisms
Technical SEO, Ecommerce SEO

Kristina Azarenko is a technical SEO consultant and educator with more than 13 years of hands on experience in SEO and digital marketing. She specializes in diagnosing complex website optimization issues through technical SEO audits, with detailed expertise in crawling and indexing. Her work also covers redirects and canonical tags, including their role in controlling how search engines discover and interpret website content. Azarenko has extensive experience with website migrations, where she develops SEO plans and supports implementation intended to protect organic visibility during structural changes. She creates SEO documentation and technical requirements for custom built websites so development teams can implement search requirements correctly. Her experience with large scale environments includes developing scalable technical SEO frameworks for content management systems that support hundreds of websites.

Azarenko founded MarketingSyrup SEO Academy to make technical SEO knowledge practical for working professionals, including people without coding or web development backgrounds. She also created the TSP Method, a framework for developing applied technical SEO skills and greater confidence in solving website problems. As a LinkedIn Learning instructor, Azarenko has taught approximately 70,000 students worldwide. Her international speaking experience includes Women in Tech SEO Festival and the BrightonSEO eCommerce Summit, while her SEO expertise has appeared on industry platforms such as Search Engine Land and Semrush. She has been recognized as one of 13 women shaping the SEO industry. Beyond consulting, her experience includes SEO course creation and digital education, with training products contributing to more than $1 million in digital product sales.

Areas of expertise

Kristina Azarenko specialises in Technical SEO and Ecommerce SEO.

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