How do you manage SEO for tens of millions of pages that drive renters, landlords, AND national press? Zach Chahalis—VP of SEO at Apartments.com—joins host Jon Clark to reveal the playbook behind enterprise-level search success.Â
From agile sprint planning and split-testing metadata to turning MLS feeds and Matterport 3D tours into unique, ranking content, Zach breaks down the systems that keep America’s top rental marketplace ahead of Google’s ever-shifting SERPs and AI Overviews.
🏢 In This Episode
• How Apartments.com approaches SEO across 20M+ pages
• Agile workflows: integrating daily stand-ups, PI planning & sprint demos
• Scaling hyper-local content with proprietary rental and cost-of-living data
• Structured data, title formulas & other “boring” tactics that still move the needle
• Using AI agents for efficiency (content QA, Fair Housing compliance & more)
• Mitigating traffic loss from Google’s AI Overviews and LLM crawlers
• Smart redirect rules & platform pitfalls during massive site migrations
• Negotiating dev tickets: writing stories developers want to ship
Master the fundamentals and the future of enterprise SEO with real-world tactics you can steal today.
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đź“Ž Mentioned Links & Resources:Â
- Zach Chahalis on Linkedin
- Zach Chahalis on X
- Zach Chahalis on Bluesky
- Zach Chahalis Personal Website
- Apartments.com
- Pubcon "Don't Get Left Out in the Rain"
- Zach Chahalis Episode #2
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