Utathya Ghosh
Founder, DeployFlare
I build marketing engines that earn their keep.
Founder of DeployFlare and Head of Marketing at Aquilon Tech. Five years building search and content functions from scratch, first in newsrooms, then in B2B.
- Writes on
- SEO, search data and demand
- Guides published
- 220
- Writing here since
- 2025
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Bengali
Utathya Ghosh built DeployFlare and writes every guide on this blog. He also runs marketing at Aquilon Tech, a UK technology company.
He came to SEO sideways. A press internship at Real Madrid led to editing at Sportskeeda, then running the American sports vertical at EssentiallySports at a million reads a month. The channels kept changing. The way you build demand and prove it worked did not.
At Alltake the marketing team went from thirty people to six. Output went up, because automation absorbed what the headcount used to carry.
He writes here about the parts of SEO that pay for themselves: rank data that matches what a buyer sees, keyword research tied to intent, and reporting a finance team will accept.
What he covers
Six areas carry most of the work.
Rank tracking
What the SERP looks like by city, language and device.
Keyword research
Demand, difficulty and intent, then mapping terms to pages.
Technical SEO
Crawling, indexing, rendering and Core Web Vitals.
SEO analytics & reporting
GA4, Search Console and reports that hold up in a review.
AI & GEO
Getting cited by ChatGPT, Gemini and AI overviews.
For agencies
Pricing, staffing and scaling a book of SEO clients.
Track record
- 2025 to now
Head of Marketing
Aquilon Tech, UKBuilt the inbound engine from nothing, starting with positioning and the site.
400%more discovery calls
- 2024 to 2025
Product and Marketing Manager
Alltake (Edge Linking)Ran full-funnel demand generation and rebuilt operations on automation while the marketing team shrank from thirty people to six.
300%growth in MQLs
- 2023 to 2024
Sub Group Head
EssentiallySportsOwned the American sports vertical, from commissioning through to search performance.
1M+reads a month
- 2022 to 2023
Senior Content Writer
Spolto Technology SolutionsSet the content and SEO strategy for a technology services brand starting with no organic footprint.
100K+visitors in six months
- 2021 to 2022
Assistant Content Manager and Editor
SportskeedaLed fourteen writers and owned editorial strategy and search.
- 2020 to 2021
Press and Communications Intern
Real Madrid C.F.Vetted press coverage and learned how a global brand guards its narrative.
Latest guides
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