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Websites that get found, load fast, and prove it in the data.

YSM Digital is the studio of Yaaseen Saleh-Mohamed — a technical SEO and data specialist in Johannesburg. Everything I run lives here: the tools, the properties, and the work.

status: accepting 2 retainer clients base: Johannesburg, ZA focus: technical SEO · data · security

// properties

What runs under YSM Digital

One operator, several fronts. Each property does one job well.

// capabilities

The work, specifically

No "full-service digital solutions." Three things, done at depth. Full detail →

technical seo

Make it findable

Diagnose why pages don't rank using the actual evidence — server logs, crawl data, index coverage.

  • log-file analysis
  • core web vitals
  • structured data / schema
  • crawl & indexation audits
data & reporting

Make it measurable

Pipelines and dashboards that show what marketing actually returns — not vanity metrics.

  • BigQuery pipelines
  • Looker Studio dashboards
  • Search Console at scale
  • attribution you can defend
local & healthcare

Make the phone ring

Local search for practices: profile, reviews, service pages — measured in calls and bookings, not positions.

  • Google Business Profile
  • local pack strategy
  • service-page builds
  • review systems

// writing

From the blog

Working notes from the technical end of search.

technical seo · 8 min read

How to read your server logs like an SEO

Analytics tells you what people did. Logs tell you what Googlebot did. Here's how to get answers from them without expensive tooling.

performance · 6 min read

Core Web Vitals: the three numbers worth fixing first

Most CWV advice is generic. This is the priority order I actually use on client sites, and why INP is usually the quiet killer.

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// contact

Have a site that should be doing more? Let's talk.