Background

SEO consultant, trained in Spain, focused on hard markets

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Alban Febrer SanmartíFreelance SEO consultant
  • 🎓 Webmarketing master, Complutense Madrid
  • 🏆 Winner of the class SEO contest
  • 🗺 France, Spain, Mexico
  • 💬 English, French, Spanish
  • 💼 8 years of experience

I learned SEO in Madrid, in a webmarketing master at the Complutense University of Madrid, taught by Sico de Andres, one of the best known Spanish consultants in the industry. The programme ended with a ranking contest between students, which I won.

Since then, eight years in markets where paid advertising is closed: online gambling, dating, CBD, sports betting. These are environments where you do not win with a blog and patience, but with structure, links and production sustained over time.

Steps

The path in detail

Three countries, one thread: organic acquisition in markets advertisers cannot buy.

Madrid

Webmarketing master, Complutense University of Madrid

SEO and digital marketing specialisation, taught by Sico de Andres, author and founder of the SEonthebeach event.

Contest

Class SEO contest, first place

Ranking competition on a keyword invented for the occasion, held at the top until the end of the challenge.

Mexico

Social media internship

Facebook page management and editorial calendars for local accounts. First experience of content production at scale.

Spain

First SEO assignments in Spanish speaking markets

Affiliate and e-commerce sites, in Spanish, with the specifics of the Spanish SERP.

France

Green Tomato, management

Team supervision and production coordination. Where I learned to run a content chain, not only to write inside it.

Today

DarkShine Media and freelance work

Portfolio of sites in competitive niches, link strategy, Python automation and writer management.

Skills

What I do, in the order I use it

A deliberately short list: skills used every week, not a CV inventory.

Technical SEO

Crawling, log files, indexation, JavaScript rendering, Core Web Vitals, faceted navigation and crawl budget.

Keyword strategy

Multilingual research, intent mapping, topic clusters, cannibalisation clean up.

Link building

Expired domains, paid placements, PBNs, competitor profile analysis, anchor and velocity control.

Python automation

Data collection scripts, Search Console and DataForSEO APIs, page generation, rank alerts.

Programmatic SEO

Pages generated at scale: cities, categories, combinations, with templates and guardrails.

Management

Hiring writers, briefing, proofreading, publishing cadence and long term quality control.

FAQ

Questions about the background

Why train in Spain?

The Spanish market is more aggressive and less tooled than the French one, so you learn to work with little.

Who is Sico de Andres?

A well known Spanish SEO consultant, author, teacher at Complutense and founder of the SEonthebeach event.

Do you work outside France?

Yes: Spain, Latin America and English speaking markets, remotely, in three languages.

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Alban Febrer Sanmartí Freelance SEO consultant · 8 years · updated 2026

Let us talk about your project, no strings attached

Send me the site, the niche and the budget. Within an hour I will tell you whether it is winnable, what it costs and how long it takes. If it is not winnable, I will say that too.

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