About Md Raihan Islam
I didn’t start with a course or a playbook. I started with my own websites, a Google update that took most of my traffic and no choice but to work out why.
Ten years later, that’s still the work — figuring out what actually happened before deciding what to do about it.
Building sites and projects
SEO Service Care, since 2019
Team built and trained
Founder & CEO · SEO Service Care
2016 · The turning point
Before that, SEO was something I did casually. I’d been online since 2011 — social media, blogging, content, small digital projects. Alongside my Computer Science and Engineering studies from 2015, I built movie and educational websites, earned advertising revenue, and wrote content.
Those projects taught me how websites behave in the real world rather than how they look on paper. Then a major Google algorithm update took most of my traffic, and none of the advice I could find explained what had happened to me specifically.
So I spent months working through Google’s ranking systems, figuring out what had changed and recovering the sites myself. It was an expensive way to learn.
It was also the moment the work became interesting. Not “how do I rank” — but “what is actually happening here, and how would I prove it?” That question is still the job.
Illustrative — not a client chart. The shape is the point: the recovery is where the expertise came from, not the growth before it.
The path
Social media, blogging, content creation and small digital projects. No plan to work in search — just a lot of building.
I began my CSE studies while continuing to build websites alongside them. That engineering background is why I read log files and rendering behaviour rather than stopping at a crawl report.
A major algorithm update took most of my traffic. Recovering it forced me to study search systems, technical SEO and diagnosis at a far deeper level than any course would have.
Hired after they noticed what I'd done with my own traffic. When relocation was later required, I chose to continue independently and focus on remote work.
I moved onto Upwork focused specifically on technical SEO and recovery — the problems most freelancers avoided, which turned out to be the ones worth specialising in.
Launched in January with two local employees, built around the same principle: understand the problem before selling a solution to it.
The company has grown past 35 professionals, every one of them personally trained and mentored. I still take on consulting engagements myself — see why below.
The obvious question
It’s a fair thing to ask, and worth answering directly rather than leaving you to wonder. SEO Service Care is a real agency with 35+ people, and I’m its founder. But I still lead a limited number of consulting engagements myself, and those are two genuinely different kinds of work.
The agency
A team is the right answer for ongoing work — content production, link building, monthly optimisation, reporting, campaign management across many clients at once. That needs capacity, process and consistency and a team delivers all three better than one person ever could.
The consulting
A traffic collapse nobody can explain. A migration that never recovered. Pages that won’t index for reasons three audits missed. These need judgment rather than throughput and judgment is the one thing you can’t hand to a delivery queue.
There’s a practical advantage in it for you too. A solo consultant is a single point of failure; an agency alone can leave you without senior attention. This way you get the person who diagnosed the problem, with a team behind them to actually ship the fix.
How I work
My job is to find it before recommending what to do next. That order matters more than anything else in this work.
What changed, what's underperforming, and where the evidence actually points — not where it's assumed to point.
Technical data, search data, competitor movement and manual investigation, combined until the underlying issue is confirmed.
Findings turned into a prioritised, specific plan — ordered by business impact rather than by what's easiest to ship.
The right fixes implemented, the signals monitored, and the outcome measured against the business rather than the dashboard.
What I specialise in
01
Structural, crawling, indexing and rendering issues that stop search engines understanding a site properly.
02
Traffic and ranking losses investigated, the cause identified and a safe path back mapped out.
03
The technical and intent problems standing between an online store's organic visibility and its revenue.
04
Visibility for businesses whose customers are nearby — profiles, maps, reviews and the technical layer underneath.
Selected results
Recovery
revenue growth from a stagnant position
Lonear Mushrooms — an eight-month roadmap that restored organic growth and cut a heavy dependence on paid advertising.
Ecommerce
sales, traffic and keywords in 10 months
Magikflame — a US electric-fireplace manufacturer online since 2015 that search had barely registered.
Technical
technical health, keywords 2,642 → 7,280
Magikflame — a US electric-fireplace manufacturer online since 2015 that search had barely registered.
Local
organic traffic, +80% clicks in 90 days
Bergen Optometry — from low visibility to the Google Maps local pack in one of New Jersey’s most competitive markets.
Experience & credentials
4.9 average across 69 ratings, 99% job success, 104 completed jobs and 22,000+ hours delivered.
Appeared in Google's Search Central Office Hours — a session where Google's own team answers technical search questions directly.
SEMrush, Ahrefs, Screaming Frog, Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools — cross-referenced rather than relied on individually.
WordPress, Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, Webflow, Wix, Squarespace, Laravel and custom PHP builds.
A personal belief
I’ve chosen to spend my time building, solving and delivering rather than packaging what I know into something to sell. It’s a less scalable choice. It’s also why the experience on this page is first-hand.
Founder & CEO, SEO Service Care
Have a complex SEO problem?
If your traffic dropped, your store stopped scaling, or your site is doing something nobody can explain — start with the problem, not the service you think you need. I’ll help you understand what’s actually happening.
