ALIZEE BAUDEZ CONSULTING - SINCE 2016
Ten years of
not compromising.
A decade of international SEO, built independently, without a plan B, and without cutting corners on the work or the people.
THE STORY
It started with two strangers who needed their CVs redone.
€150. A Company ID. A business.
In early 2016, I flew to California to figure out what I wanted to do with my life (yes, it’s cliché, I know). I came back with a direction. Within weeks, I had invoiced my first two clients : a couple who needed their résumés rewritten, I created a company to be able to invoice them, and landed a role managing the SEO-heavy website of a Parisian business school. Not quite a grand plan. More like a series of good decisions made quickly.
For two years I held both: the employment and the side business. I was learning on the job, taking on digital marketing missions, copywriting, multilingual work, and increasingly, SEO. The hot topic at the time was mobile-first indexing. It feels like a lifetime ago. By the time I left, the side business was already generating 15% of my income on a couple of evenings a week. The maths made sense. I went full-time.
"Freedom wasn't a perk. It was the non-negotiable I built everything else around."
What followed was two years of working from home offices across Europe (Bologna, Gdańsk, Vilnius, Budapest, the Canary Islands) building a consulting practice from wherever I happened to be. Doing international SEO while actually living it. Investing in the craft: attending BrightonSEO twice a year, earning certifications, reading obsessively, learning from peers who were further ahead.
Over ten years, the work has taken me across industries as varied as fintech, higher education, SaaS, automotive, food and beverage, tourism, professional training, e-commerce, and media, across markets including the UK, Germany, the US, Canada, Australia, the UAE, and more. The through-line was always the same: helping businesses show up correctly in markets that aren't their home turf.
MARKETS I'VE WORKED ACROSS - 2016 TO 2026
None of this happened alone. My partner has shared an office with me for eight of those ten years. Friends celebrated the wins and steadied the harder moments. Clients became collaborators, then people I'm genuinely glad I met. That web of people is part of what made this possible and part of what makes the work good.
This anniversary isn't a lookback. It's a marker for where I'm going next.
WHAT TEN YEARS MEANS FOR THE WORK
Independence isn't just a lifestyle choice.
It's a structural advantage.
01
No hierarchy between you and the thinking
No account manager filtering the strategy before it reaches you. What you get is the actual analysis, directly.
03
Ten years of pattern recognition
From mobile-first to AI-driven search. Across markets, languages, and business models. That depth shapes every recommendation.
02
No incentive to recommend what's billable
Independent consultants are paid to give the right answer, not the answer that extends the engagement.
04
Full accountability to the outcome
One consultant. Fully responsible for the work. No junior team running your account while the senior sells the next one.
The businesses I work with are navigating real complexity: multi-market expansion, misaligned SEO structures, visibility that needs to travel across languages and cultures. That's not a job for a generic audit. It's a job for someone who has spent a decade thinking about exactly this.
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This is a good fit if you're…
Expanding into new markets and need a clear SEO strategy that travels
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Preparing a launch, redesign, or strategic shift and need expert input before you act
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