Alex Alexakis

Founder, Moto Marine Digital

Alex Alexakis founded Moto Marine Digital in 2025 to give boat dealers websites that sync with their DMS, keep inventory on their own domain, and rank in local search. He has built websites since 2009 and runs PixelChefs, the team that builds every Moto Marine Digital site. He lives in Central Florida and fishes inshore around Punta Gorda.

Alex Alexakis, founder of Moto Marine Digital
2009Building websites since
1,000+Websites audited for technical SEO
15,000+Listings integrated on one national listing site
18+Designers, developers, and SEO specialists on his team
Search Engine Journal
business.com
US Search Awards 2026 Judge
US Search Awards 2025 Judge
US Agency Awards 2025 Judge

The origin

Why An SEO Operator Built A Platform For Boat Dealers

The idea came out of a meeting with Bryan Potzner and the Winboats team. They kept running into the same gap. Dealer inventory lived in the DMS, the dealer’s website lived somewhere else, and the two didn’t talk to each other.

Alex had seen the same issues in SEO audits for years. Staff retyped boats by hand, sold units stayed online for weeks, and inventory pages sat on third-party subdomains, so Google didn’t credit them to the dealer’s own domain.

Moto Marine Digital is his answer to that. It’s a website platform made only for boat dealers, connected to the DMS, with inventory pages on the dealer’s own domain. Winboats is a select partner, and the platform connects with all major marine DMS systems.

Most agency owners have never carried a P&L. I have, and I still do.

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Off the clock

Off The Clock, He’s On The Water

Alex grew up in Greece, where summers meant days on the water around the islands with his family. He lives in Central Florida now and fishes most weekends, for bass on the local lakes and for redfish and snook around Punta Gorda, usually with his favorite fishing partners, Demi and Philip.

That’s a big part of why the platform works the way it does. Alex buys boats, gear, and service the same way your customers do, so he knows what a buyer wants to see on a listing before they pick up the phone.

It’s also why Moto Marine Digital listings talk about the local water and how the boat will get used, not just the spec sheet.

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Photo placeholder: Alex on his boat or holding a catch

Experience

Seventeen Years Of Work That Had To Make Money

Most of Alex’s work has been judged on leads and sales, first at a national resort company and then on agency client sites. That’s the same standard a dealer website gets held to.

01Westgate Resorts, 2012 to 2018

Lead generation for a high-ticket sale

Alex spent six years on the digital team at Westgate Resorts, one of the largest privately held resort companies in the country. By the end he ran lead generation for the timeshare division, plus web design, SEO, and paid media, with a team of six.

Timeshares and boats are both purchases buyers research for weeks before they sign. The way leads get captured, tracked, and followed up is a lot alike.

6yrs running digital lead generation for a national resort brand

02Technical SEO audits, 2017 to 2021

More than 1,000 websites audited

Before PixelChefs went full time, SEO agencies sent Alex their technical audit work, often four deep audits a week. He checked crawlability, indexing, page speed, content, and conversion leaks on sites built in WordPress, Shopify, and everything in between.

After that many audits, he spots what’s costing a dealer leads within minutes. The same five problems show up on most dealer sites.

What Alex checks first on a dealer site

  • Inventory pages on a third-party subdomain
  • Sold units still live and taking leads
  • Listing pages slow to load on a phone
  • Units Google hasn't indexed
  • Lead forms with no tracking behind them

Every Moto Marine Digital site is built so none of these happen.

Results

Results From Sites Alex’s Team Built

One boat dealer running on Moto Marine Digital, and one high-ticket resort site Alex’s team rebuilt. Both had the same goal a dealer does, more of the right people finding them on Google.

Winnisquam Marine website built on Moto Marine Digital

Winnisquam Marine, New Hampshire

2.6x more Google traffic in one season

Winnisquam Marine sells and rents boats from three locations in New Hampshire. The team rebuilt their sales and rental pages on Moto Marine Digital, synced inventory from Winboats, and fixed the technical problems holding the site back. Within four months, Google traffic had more than doubled.

2.6x
more visitors from Google
2.3x
more value in their Google traffic
78%
more searches in Google's top 3

WestgateEvents.com

220% more search impressions in 90 days

A rebuilt site for a national resort brand, built to rank for searches tied to specific destinations. It’s the same local search game a dealer plays every spring.

150+
searches ranking in Google's top 3
50%
higher click-through rate

Find out what your site is leaving on the table

We’ll pull your current Google traffic and rankings and show you exactly where the leads are slipping through.

Stages and panels

On Stages And On The Judging Panel

Alex has judged the US Search Awards every year since 2023, reviewing entries from search teams across the country. He has spoken at SEO and web conferences in the U.S. and Europe, and he co-hosts the SEO Party podcast.

Alex Alexakis at WordCamp Europe in Athens, 2023
WordCamp Europe, Athens, 2023

Judge

US Search Awards 2026 Judge
US Search Awards, 2023 to 2026
US Agency Awards 2025 Judge
US Agency Awards, 2025
Global Agency
Awards
Judge
Global Agency Awards, 2025

Speaker

UnGaggedLas Vegas
UnGagged, Las Vegas, 2018
CMS SummitOrlando
CMS Summit, Orlando, 2018
WordCamp Athens 2017
WordCamp Athens, 2017

Reviews

What Clients Say About Working With Alex

5.0
25 Google reviews

There are plenty of people who claim to understand SEO and Google Ads. Alex actually does.

Neil NahoumGoogle review

What I loved most about Alex is that he really understands how to design a beautiful website that also converts customers.

Emily KilGoogle review

Alex took our site that was a mess and fixed it to be slim and fast.

1% GuysGoogle review

Meet The Team At MRAA Dealer Week 2026

December 6 to 9, Tampa Convention Center. Booth number coming soon.

FAQ

Questions About Alex Alexakis

Who founded Moto Marine Digital?

Alex Alexakis founded Moto Marine Digital in 2025. He also founded PixelChefs, the Orlando web design and technical SEO agency that builds and maintains every Moto Marine Digital dealer site.

What's Alex Alexakis's background?

Alex has built websites since 2009. He spent six years on the digital team at Westgate Resorts running lead generation, has run technical SEO audits on more than 1,000 websites, and judges the US Search Awards.

Is Alex a boater?

Yes. Alex lives in Central Florida and fishes for bass, plus redfish and snook around Punta Gorda.

Who builds Moto Marine Digital dealer websites?

The PixelChefs team of 18+ designers, developers, and SEO specialists builds and maintains every Moto Marine Digital site.

Where can I meet the Moto Marine Digital team?

Moto Marine Digital will be at MRAA Dealer Week 2026, December 6 to 9 at the Tampa Convention Center. You can also request a 30-minute demo or call 407-283-7293.

Book a demo

Put Alex’s Team On Your Website

Book a 30-minute demo with the team that builds the platform. They’ll review your current site and DMS setup and show you what they’d change.

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