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Growth Architect · Author · DTC E-commerce

Growth should compound, not reset

I build growth systems that compound revenue and lifetime value. I partner with DTC brands long-term — installing proven, repeatable systems across content, SEO, and your existing customer base, so every part compounds the others instead of spiking and fading. I build and run them with custom systems I engineer for each brand, so the work moves faster and keeps running after I step back.

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Content Commerce SEO Clusters Email / Retention Customer Stories Revenue & LTV compounds

your channels, spinning as one flywheel  ·  compounding revenue & LTV

The problem

Most growth doesn't compound.

Most DTC brands run content, SEO, email, and paid as separate tactics. A campaign here, a batch of blog posts there. Each one spikes, then fades — and the next quarter starts again from zero.

Nothing builds on what came before. Traffic doesn't feed retention, content doesn't feed the catalog, and your customers — your single biggest asset — don't feed the next wave of growth. The work is real, but it resets instead of accumulating.

Compounding growth comes from systems, not tactics — repeatable engines where each part makes the others stronger. That's what I build.

How I grow revenue

The systems I build

Repeatable systems I install across content, SEO, and your customer base. Each one is designed to compound — and I engineer custom automation behind them, so they scale further and keep running after I step back.

Content commerce
Shoppable content that sells

I turn blog and SEO content into a direct sales channel — placing the right products inside the articles people actually read. Editorial that converts, not just ranks, so your top-of-funnel traffic starts paying for itself.

+130% month-over-month lift in blog-attributed store revenue after rolling this out
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Customer story engine
Your customers write your best content

I activate your existing base to produce authentic content at scale — incentivized campaigns that turn buyers into stories. One campaign across a large list can fuel SEO, social proof, and repeat purchases for months, at near-zero content cost.

50–100 blog posts' worth of authentic content from a single customer campaign
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Collection clusters
Pages that rank and guide the buyer

Hub-and-spoke collection pages that educate the shopper and tell Google how your catalog fits together. Interlinked clusters lift the whole group — and net-new pages capture demand you were never showing up for.

+48–51% organic traffic growth on targeted collection clusters in 28 days
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How to Do SEO for Your Shopify Store by Slava Rybalka, book cover
The book

How to Do SEO for Your Shopify Store

The method I use with clients, written down in full. Your collections are the departments of your store: you find the ones customers are already searching for, build them from inventory you already own, and wire them together so every page lifts the others. It is the same work that took Arteza from about 40 collections to 120 and nearly quadrupled its organic traffic.

Written for store owners and the marketers who work with them. No tricks, no jargon walls, and every chapter ends with what to do this week.

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Work with me

A long-term growth partner — not a vendor

I take on a small number of DTC brands at a time and work as their embedded growth partner — remote, on-site when it matters, flexible by design.

Growth Architect
One partner who owns growth across content, SEO, and retention.
  • 1–2 days a week, on a 6–12 month engagement
  • Embedded with your team — remote, on-site when it matters
  • Starts with an audit & roadmap, then I build and run the systems with you
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Slava Rybalka — Growth Architect
About

15 years from SEO specialist to Growth Architect

I've spent 15 years in search and growth. At Chewy I owned technical SEO on a team that doubled organic traffic, from about 2.7 to 5.3 million monthly visits. At Arteza, as Director of SEO, my team grew organic traffic nearly fourfold and tripled revenue from organic search. But what's always pulled me deeper is understanding what customers actually want — so you can meet that need, make them happy, and grow the business as the result.

That clicked at Kellogg, where customer lifetime value and customer centricity reframed growth for me — building durable value with the right customers, not just chasing traffic. It's also why I trained in machine learning: to read customers from how they actually behave, instead of guessing.

I work like a growth architect, not a single-channel specialist, and I take on only a few brands at a time as a long-term partner. Your revenue compounding is the whole point.

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Previously
  • Chewy
  • Arteza
  • Net Retailers
  • RealPage
  • Barbu
Education
  • Kellogg School of Management
  • ML Engineer Nanodegree, Udacity
  • MA, University of Manchester

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