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Dorian Menard

Founder · SEO Consultant · Search Scope

Perth-based SEO and AI search specialist. 13+ years in digital marketing — local SEO, Google Business Profile reinstatement, affiliate, and e-commerce. I help businesses replace "more traffic" with qualified leads, booked jobs, and tracked revenue.

  • 13+ years SEO experience
  • 200+ clients since founding
  • 200+ GBP reinstatements at 98% success
  • $5M+ tracked client revenue

Quoted, cited, and contributed to

  • Semrush Blog
  • impact.com
  • Taboola Marketing Hub
  • People Managing People
  • DEV Community
  • Zupyak
  • Rank Tracker

Background

Thirteen years across three continents of digital marketing.

I started in digital marketing in 2013, working on performance-driven campaigns where the numbers were checked weekly and excuses didn't survive the meeting. By the time I relocated to Perth and founded Search Scope in 2021, I had already spent close to a decade testing what actually moves rankings, traffic, and revenue across multiple markets and verticals.

For five of those years the focus was affiliate and e-commerce SEO — niches where performance is brutally measurable and there is nowhere to hide behind vanity reporting. That pressure refined how I compete in saturated markets and how I run Search Scope today: prioritise demand capture over vanity graphs, and build predictable systems that produce clients, not just clicks.

Whether the client is a Perth tradie or a national brand, the approach is the same — pursue quality over quantity, measure success by new customers and revenue, and remove fragility so results don't collapse with the next algorithm change.

I hold an MBA with international business studies (completed in France and Japan), speak English and French, and now work from Perth with clients across Australia, the US, and Europe.

In digital since

2013 — 13+ years across local, affiliate & e-commerce

Founded Search Scope

2021 — Perth, Western Australia

Specialisation

Local SEO · GBP reinstatement · AI search visibility

Education

MBA — International Business (France & Japan)

Areas of expertise

What I actually work on day-to-day.

  • Local & maps

    Local SEO & Google Business Profile

    Full Map Pack systems — categories, photos, reviews, citations, geo-grid tracking — with a 98% reinstatement track record on suspended profiles.

  • AI search

    GEO / LLM visibility

    Optimising for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, and Google AI Overviews. Entity-first content, schema, and citation engineering.

  • Technical

    Technical SEO & site architecture

    Crawl, indexation, Core Web Vitals, internal-link sculpting, schema implementation, JS rendering audits.

  • Authority

    Digital PR, HARO & authority links

    High-authority placements via outreach, source-driven journalism, and relationship-based link building — not link networks.

  • Performance

    Affiliate & e-commerce SEO

    Five years competing in saturated commission-driven niches. Where every ranking position is measured in dollars.

  • Automation

    AI workflows & lead handling

    Internal AI automations for reporting, monitoring, outreach, and lead qualification — built so the agency stays small.

Press & contributed work

Where my work has been quoted or commissioned.

  • Semrush Blog

    Quoted on Ahrefs vs. SEMrush link data accuracy

  • impact.com

    Expert contributor — Reddit affiliate marketing tactics

  • Taboola Marketing Hub

    Expert contributor — best-in-class referral programs

  • People Managing People

    Expert contributor — the 9/80 work schedule

  • DEV Community

    Expert contributor — qualities of great software developers

  • Zupyak

    Quoted on underrated SEO tactics that boost rankings

  • Rank Tracker

    Expert contributor — appealing GBP suspensions

For media or interview enquiries, email seo@searchscope.com.au.

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