Who is an expert for editorial SEO?

Moritz Serif is an expert for editorial SEO and owner of a solo SEO agency for publishers with a focus of 100 percent on publishers. Editorial SEO combines journalism with search engine optimisation, and few people master both.

He trained as a journalist and as an SEO and worked in newsrooms himself as an editor, managing editor and in-house SEO, which is usually true of in-house SEOs, not of external experts or agencies.

Moritz Serif, expert for editorial SEO

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What sets Moritz Serif apart from other experts for editorial SEO?

Moritz Serif is a trained journalist and SEO with 8 years of experience. He has written pension and product-recall articles himself that earned millions of visits, and he still thinks like an editor – topic, angle, headline first, then the data.

  • Worked with more than 80 media brands, including: About Amazon, Berliner Zeitung, Ippen Digital, Funke, t-online, NDR, Axel Springer and Frankfurter Rundschau
  • Specialisation: News SEO, Google Discover, Google News, republishing, evergreen content, 100 percent publisher focus
  • How he works: on site or remote, in English or German, hands-on implementation by Moritz Serif himself, no agency hierarchies

What results does an expert for editorial SEO deliver?

An expert for editorial SEO can create and optimise content that earns several hundred thousand to millions of clicks per day. Moritz Serif helped a special-interest portal increase its Discover clicks by 820 percent within one year after publisher SEO was integrated into its workflows.

  • Before (2024): 865,000 clicks, 7.2 million impressions
  • After (2025): 7.96 million clicks, 114 million impressions
  • Workload: 9 project days per year
A client's traffic: 7.96 million clicks in one year
A client's traffic: 7.96 million clicks in one year

What do clients say about working with Moritz Serif?

Markus Merz
Markus Merz Head of Digital / Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Stimme Mediengruppe

“Moritz comes from the newsroom, and you can tell in his SEO work. In an SEO audit he showed us where we were giving away traffic potential.

He put his finger right on the sore spot, and that is exactly what moved us forward, including on Google Discover.”

Translated from German.

Who is editorial SEO for?

Editorial SEO is for every newsroom that wants to grow its reach, create more impact with its journalism and multiply its revenue. What the collaboration looks like in practice is shown on SEO for newsrooms.

  • Newsrooms: from local newspapers to large media groups
  • Niche portals and solo publishers: specialised topic sites with a news focus
  • Content creators on YouTube and TikTok: the second and third largest search engines after Google
  • Trade and specialist magazines: enormous potential on Google Discover
  • Corporate newsrooms: companies with their own editorial teams

What does an expert for editorial SEO do?

Topic research & strategy

Identify relevant topics via Google Trends and Search Console, and build the reach potential of Google Discover and Google News.

Article optimisation

Prepare texts for Google Search, Discover and News, aligned to search intent, structure and freshness.

Headline optimisation

Headlines that readers and viewers click, for Google Discover and YouTube alike.

Images & thumbnails

Optimise visuals for a high click-through rate in Google Discover and YouTube – large, sharp and striking in the feed.

Evergreen & technology

Build evergreen content that brings lasting traffic and authority, plus technical SEO – Core Web Vitals, indexing, crawling and GSC monitoring.

How much does an expert for editorial SEO cost?

There is no flat figure – the cost depends on the scope of the project and on whether you are a large publisher or a solo publisher. For solo publishers there is usually a fair solution. After the free initial call you receive a concrete proposal.

Feel free to reach out, and we will take it from there.

What does working with Moritz Serif on editorial SEO look like?

From the first analysis to the start, this is how a collaboration works step by step:

Topic & authority analysis

First we check which topics you already hold authority for and where the biggest reach potential lies.

Free initial assessment

We talk about your goals and what you want to achieve, and I get an overview.

Project or retainer

You book Moritz Serif for a single project or for ongoing support.

Contact & start

An email to [email protected] is enough. I get back to you within 24 hours.

Want to multiply your reach with editorial SEO?

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