David Lopez

Content and Copywriting

David Lopez is a Melbourne-based content strategist and SEO copywriter who has been writing blog and web content for agency clients since 2009.

That work spans seven of the agencies and publishers he has worked for. He writes to be found in search and quoted by answer engines.

Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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David Lopez

Briefs, research, drafting, and rewriting the draft that missed. I work across all of it, on my own copy and alongside other writers on theirs.

Since 2024 that has meant writing for answer engines as well as for search results. I hold 12 Anthropic certifications and use them on the research and the drafting. What ships is written rather than generated.

Capabilities

Content Strategy & Copywriting

  • Content planning for complete topical coverage
  • Content briefing for copywriters with AEO and GEO intent built in
  • SEO-friendly copywriting across all page types, plus lead gen and advertising copy
  • Researching and writing on highly technical subject matter

AI Augmentation

  • Claude Code workflow development for SEO, content and reporting automation
  • Custom production tooling built and shipped against real client problems
  • MCP server configuration and integration into live workflows

SEO / AEO / GEO

  • Technical SEO: crawl architecture, structured data, hreflang, Core Web Vitals and site migrations
  • AEO and GEO: entity optimisation, FAQ schema, AI overview visibility and AI Share of Voice
  • Keyword research, topic mapping, content planning and on-page optimisation
  • Off-page strategy and link building
  • Tooling: Google Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog, SEMrush, Ahrefs

Case studies

470 GEO PAGES

Milone's Tree Solutions: copy rewrite and automated location pages

470 geo-targeted location pages, 452 generated by a system I built and 18 council pages written by hand, published across a staggered three-month rollout. Over the six months that followed, organic keywords rose 2.1x and top-ten rankings 2.1x. Third-party estimates.

Read the full case study, including how much of each page is unique

463 → 1,328 ORGANIC CLICKS A MONTH

A managed IT site rebuilt around services, not vendor products

A multi-location managed IT provider had its services spread across four product-led areas, with the same product filed in two of them. I led the migration onto service categories, wrote the new service page copy, and set the pillar and cluster content strategy that ran alongside it.

Read the full case study, including why the year-on-year figures are unusable

END TO END CONTENT PROGRAMME

Writing the content programme for an audio visual hire company

An audio visual and event hire company needed content that supported the pages it actually sells from: video wall hire, stage hire, audio hire, touch screens. I ran the content programme end to end, from the ideas list through to the published copy.

I wrote six pieces, around 4,800 words. Five were articles, on immersive stage hire, hosting a virtual event people stay awake through, LED video walls for exhibitions and gala nights, getting AV hire quoted quickly and accurately, and why event creative makes an impression. The sixth was a rewrite of the hybrid events service page.

Each one carried its own keyword brief in the document, primary term and supporting terms together, so the piece was written against a target rather than fitted to one afterwards. The topics came from a content ideation document I put together for the client, and sat inside a six-month SEO and paid search roadmap covering crawl audits, keyword gap analysis, sitemap structure, link building and a content calendar.

I am not attaching a traffic number to this one. Four monthly reports survive, the numbers in them peak in the middle and fall by the end, and the pages that rank across all of them are the service pages rather than the articles. Supporting content feeding the pages that sell is exactly what this programme was for, but I cannot show that it did, so I am not claiming it. What I can show is the work.

Certifications

11 current Google Skillshop certifications and 12 Anthropic certifications.

See all 35 credentials and how each one is verified

Questions

What does David Lopez specialise in?

Content strategy and SEO copywriting. Briefs, research and drafting for agency clients since 2009, written for search results and for AI answers.

Does he write the content himself?

Yes. The briefs, the research and the drafting are his. He uses AI on the research and the drafting, and writes the copy himself.

What results has he delivered?

For Milone's Tree Solutions, via Emote Digital, he rewrote the site copy and automated production of 470 geo-targeted location pages. Over the following six months organic keywords rose 2.1x and estimated traffic value 2.4x. Third-party estimates.

Where is he based?

Melbourne, Australia. He works with clients and teams across Australia.

Is he available for work?

Yes. He is open to permanent and contract roles in SEO, paid search and digital marketing, across Melbourne and remote.

Get in touch

Tell me about the role and I will come back to you. If you would rather not use a form, I am on LinkedIn.

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