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Wali Shah
Founder & Lead Engineer
I built FreelanceLeads after burning out scraping Google Maps by hand for my own SEO clients. Now I write about local SEO, cold outreach, and the systems that turn freelancers into 6-figure agencies.
Articles by Wali Shah
Outreach Apr 25, 2026 · 9 min
How to find SEO clients as a freelancer (the honest, 2026 way)
Cold DMs are dead. Job boards are saturated. Referrals dry up. Here's the system I use to add 3-5 SEO retainers a month — without paid ads or LinkedIn grind.
Local SEO Apr 4, 2026 · 14 min
The Local SEO Checklist for 2026 (47 items, ranked by impact)
A no-fluff checklist of every local SEO action that actually moved the needle this year — ordered by the % of rankings impact, not how easy they are to do.
AI SEO Mar 14, 2026 · 11 min
Optimize for AI Overviews: how to show up in Google's AI-generated answers
Google's AI Overviews now show up in 60% of searches. Here's the exact playbook to make sure your content gets cited as a source — not buried below the fold.