Jake Labate,
SEO Consultant

Data-driven SEO specializing in AI automation and tooling, advanced technical frameworks, and at-scale optimization. Located in Boston, MA serving clients nationwide.

Profile

Highly-technical SEO with 7 years experience including local, enterprise and eCommerce. Built numerous AI automations & SEO tools, Experience leading cross-department initiatives in-house and for agencies. Highly innovative; ideated and build original industry-leading SEO frameworks.

Innovation

Ideated, developed & deployed the most extensive large-scale schema framework across the hotel industry, now used by leading luxury hotels in the US including The Global Ambassador, Hotel Bennet, The Ranch Life, Hotel Swexan, and several hotels in the Aqua Aston brand collection.

Schema Framework CDN (try it!)

Try it yourself! Here is a boiled-down demo of the schema framework (not for hotels, but a basic framework that works for all types of companies).
Try it on your own website! See an example JSON output.

Setup Via Script Tag:

<script defer
  src="https://deploy.schemacdn.com"
  data-brand-name="Jimmie's Place"
  data-brand-contact-phone="203-881-3026"
  data-brand-contact-email="jimmiesplacect@gmail.com"
  data-brand-rating-count="283"
  data-brand-rating-value="4.6"
  data-brand-address-street="133 Main St"
  data-brand-address-street2=""
  data-brand-address-city="Seymour"
  data-brand-address-state="CT"
  data-brand-address-zip="06483"
  data-brand-address-country="US">
</script>

How is this Innovative? (2 ways):

First, this approach uses a custom schema generation framework. It's a logic-based, page-specific and validated framework thats runs behind the scenes (in my servers). No need to write schema manually. The framework even does things templates cannot (such as creating a new BreadcrumbList item for each page path. No template can do that!).
Second, it's cake to deploy. Schema no longer needs to be written and then copied and pasted over on each page, nor do you need to use some bulky, buggy plug-in. Add the tag. Change the brand name. Done. More brand data support (for more information than just the brand name) and a deeper framework (to accommodate more schema types) is coming soon!

How the Infrastructure Works

This is currently a hybrid approach, where if no cache is set, the server checks a storage bucket for the JSON object, which if none is found, a JSON is created.
Whichever step results in a found (or built) JSON object, it's returned to the browser, and appended to the page's <head>.
Schema Markup CDN Process Diagram

What's Next for the Schema Framework

I am now developing this further into a more extensive and permanent solution, supporting more complex schema types (such as Products, Events, Locations etc).
This can be done by parsing entities from pages (using LLMs / structured outputs), mapping the extracted entities to valid schema types & properties, and returning the schemas via the same CDN method to corresponding pages (no need for the user to set any script tag attributes).
A supporting UI will be part of this solution, allowing users to both visualize and more granularly-edit (if desired) the schema objects we parse from the page, dynamically create and deploy to the site.
While both the website and the app are incomplete, this is the extent of the progress:

Work Samples

Category Page Audit, Wayfair

For a candidate take-home project, I performed an SEO audit for a single category page on the Wayfair site. This ultimately landed me the role of the senior-most SEO analyst on the SEO team.

See Audit Document

Structured Data Framework, Seer

A 1-off gift for Seer Interactive, a prospective employer, in pursuit of a Technical SEO Manager position.

This project consists of scraping the existing Seer website to specific on-page information, and using that information to populate an extensive structured data profile (the deliverable). This is far beyond the structured data profile Seer used previously.

The position was ultimately closed due to internal restructuring, but this project put me at the top of their list for future open roles, and contracting work.

See Project Write Up Document

Universal Hotel AI Chatbot, Hooray

Senior leadership at Hooray Agency expressed that a number of clients were asking about AI chatbots (a product we have not yet implemented for any clients).

So, I developed is an original JavaScript-based AI chatbot that can be re-used cross any client the agency has / will have in the future.

This chatbot consists of a fully build front end (UI component), and back end (scraping information on the web via a custom recursive web scraper), feeding captured hotel information (text, links, images etc) into an OpenAI vector embedding (via an API).

Watch Chatbot Video Demo

Resume

Jake Labate, Resume

Skills

  • AI, AIO, GEO
  • Enterprise SEO (5,000,000+ pages)
  • Ecommerce SEO (PLPs, PDPs, etc)
  • Crawling & Indexing Strategy
  • Keyword Research
  • Data Analysis, Data Visualization
  • Site Health, Core Web Vitals, Page Speed
  • Structured Data / Schema Markup
  • Meta Data
  • Content Writing, Content Creation
  • A/B Testing

Tools

  • BigQuery, SQL, Looker
  • Screaming Frog, Nozzle, Botify
  • SEMrush, Ahrefs, Moz
  • GSC, GA4, Lighthouse
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript, APIs
  • WordPress, Webflow, Magento
  • Elementor, Yoast, Rankmath