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Job title:

SEO Assistant

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This position is currently filled, but we are always looking for great candidates. Please see the link and instructions at the bottom of the page to complete your application and submit your cover letter.

job type:

Independent contractor with minimum of 15 hours a month with room for growth. Remote.

3-week trial period with 6-month contract to follow

Compensation:

Starting at $20-$25/hour, commensurate with experience

Required experience:

  • Experience researching SEO keywords with tools like SEM Rush, Keywords Everywhere, and Ubbersuggest.

  • Experience with Google My Business, Google Search Console, and Google Analytics.

  • 1 year + experience working remotely as a virtual assistant or freelancer with website VA duties and SEO preferred.

  • Experience working with a creative agency preferred.

  • Experience inputting content into a website, Squarespace knowledge preferred.

Job requirements:

The SEO assistant does foundational SEO for our website launches.

Site build deliverables:

  • SEO Site Title

  • SEO Site Description

  • SEO Titles for all Landing Pages, Galleries, and Products

  • SEO Descriptions for all Landing Pages, Galleries, and Products

  • Create image titles and rename all images we provide you from entire site for SEO

  • Ensuring SSL is turned on

  • Submitting Site Map to Google Console post-launch

  • Setting up Google Analytics

Site research deliverables:

  • 100 long-tail phrases in an SEO analysis spreadsheet

  • Top 10 best phrases to target

  • Dedicated targeted landing page plan recommendations

  • GMB recommendations

  • Any other important notes specific to their SEO goals and business type

Required technical skills:

  • Fluent in English language.

  • Strong writing skills and ability to deliver grammatically correct, well-worded and natural sounding SEO descriptions.

  • Ability to synthesize and understand a client’s business goal and search for the best keywords to align with those goals based on their market, products or services, and ideal clients.

  • Ability to independently research and recommend specific keywords tailored to the client and the client’s competitors.

  • Able to navigate Google suite of SEO tools with ease and recommend how client can integrate and optimize these tools for their website.

  • Understanding of various strategies for SEO and ability to make recommendations for items specific to the client’s business model — for example, able to recommend in details items like targetted landing pages, what keywords to focus on and what text and SEO metas to change for that targetted page.

  • Ability to interpret analytics and adjust keyword strategies based on keyword performance preferred but not required.

Required soft skills:

  • Takes initiative to own the delivery of the SEO scope deliverables from start to finish.

  • Strong communication skills to lets us know when and how we need to connect SEO technical items to site or to provides instructions for us to follow.

  • Ability to research questions as they arise and make recommendations.

  • Timely and proactive on planning ahead for milestones and takes initiative in sending reminders for items needed to fulfill the SEO scope to prevent delays.

  • Strong self-planning skills and able to keep the team informed of progress and request information or content or adjustments to scheduling when needed.

  • Thorough and accurate work style, self managing the quality of their work by checking over pages and spotting any gaps in the SEO deliverables.

  • Ability to follow specific processes and steps while utilizing the software our team collaborates on

  • Honest and transparent, able to receive and share kind, constructive, and strategic feedback

  • Critical thinking skills to consider how multiple moving parts affect pieces or phase of a project

Ready to apply?

Please complete our application using the link below.