Ana Simoes

watson date 2022–2025 role SEO editor & journalist sector Media / Culture link watson.ch/fr/ana-simoes

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Turning editorial content into organic visibility, inside a growing newsroom.

Ana Simoes' author page on watson.ch, on a MacBook.

My author page on watson.ch, a selection of my articles.

Brief

At watson, I worked across editorial formats: Swiss and international news, interviews, portraits, and Ana (pas) Wintour, a column that decodes fashion through data.

watson is presented as the fastest-growing news portal in French-speaking Switzerland, with three-digit growth rates measured by Mediapulse.

Google AI overview describing Ana (pas) Wintour as Ana Simoes' column signature.

Google's AI overview recognises Ana (pas) Wintour as my column signature.

An Ana (pas) Wintour column on watson.ch: what fashion has in store this spring, in figures.

An Ana (pas) Wintour column: spring trends, read through data.

Challenge

A young Swiss news title, competing for search visibility against media houses long established in the Swiss landscape.

With a lean team and an SEO practice still taking shape, the work was to turn experimentation into method: test, measure, and keep only what moved the needle.

Approach

Adapting tone and format to each subject, optimising titles and content for search, and helping structure SEO as a practice within the newsroom.

Delivered

An editorial calendar and SEO guidelines for the newsroom.

Search training for journalists.

Editorial content, from news, interviews and portraits to my own data-led column.

Results

+25%organic visibility in the first 2 years