Grez-Doiceau, Walloon Region, Belgium
Hi! My name is Pierre-Olivier, but you can call me Pod. 🙂 As an engineer turned CEO, product excellence is everything to me. I co-founded Verbolia to eliminate the technical friction that keeps global ecommerce brands from growing their traffic. Instead of waiting months for dev resources, our platform automates search strategies in days. From our HQ in Belgium, we help leading global e-commerce brands automate their acquisition and maximize visibility across traditional SEO, paid search (SEA), and the new frontier of AI search (GEO). We developed three proprietary technologies to make this happen: - Vpage: A programmatic SEO, SEA, and GEO solution to deploy thousands of pages at scale, targeting high-intent long-tail queries. - Vlink: Automatically optimizes site architecture through data-driven, intelligent internal linking. - Vrender: Fixes server-side rendering issues so search engine bots can actually read, crawl, and rank your pages. If you’re tired of letting technical debt stall your traffic growth, let’s fix it. 🔗 Learn more at verbolia.com or send me a DM right here to connect!
Since 2018, 200+ leading ecommerce brands have been using the Verbolia platform to scale their online search visibility and dominate their categories. Our clients typically achieve a 42x ROI and an average traffic increase of 30%. We work with enterprise ecommerce companies including Decathlon, Chanel, Revolve, and Castorama.
I'm coaching startups at all stages of their life: early business plan definition, fund raising, growth management, acquisition. Currently involved in several incubators and startup programs in Europe.
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