DescriptionThe Technical SEO Specialist is responsible for the overall technical health and optimization of client websites. Sh/e ensures that best practices for crawlability, indexability, technical performance, code attributes, structured data, and permalink configuration (among many other things) are followed. The Technical SEO Specialist manages many critical, behind-the-scenes aspects of our clients’ SEO campaigns.
Responsibilities
- Actively participates in same-page meetings with the SEO Manager.
- Keeps track of relevant metrics in the weekly operations scorecard.
- Ensure proper optimization, configuration, and/or remediation of Technical SEO elements, including but not limited to:
- Comprehensive technical SEO site audits to identify issues and opportunities
- Site Navigation with information hierarchy and silos
- Internal linking strategy, troubleshooting, and implementation
- Indexability (robots files, meta tag directives, canonicalization, redirects)
- Crawlability (internal linking, server errors, malformed URLs, maximizing crawl budget)
- Sitemaps (on-site and for GSC submission)
- Multilingual settings (href-lang, canonicals)
- Server errors (4xx, 5xx, etc)
- Site speed monitoring and updates are made when needed (identifying opportunities and executing)
- Leveraging structured data effectively across the websites, following best practices
- Cannibalization identification and remedy creation when needed
- Ability to create cull lists and execute on those aggressively and appropriately
- Effectively handling advanced permalink restructuring
- Quickly and effectively identifying and solving technical SEO issues that may arise, potentially outside of the provided list of responsibilities
Requirements - Advanced experience working with the technical aspects of SEO campaigns or similar work.
- A deep understanding of search engine algorithms and ranking methods (particularly in regard to Google’s search engine)
- Expert knowledge of Google Search Console and solving GSC Errors
- Advanced experience working with Screaming Frog and building technical audits in Google Sheets
- Experience with SEO industry programs, such as GSC, GA4, GTM, Ahrefs, SEMRush, etc.
- A functional understanding of keyword research and data mining tools.
- Able to complete concise, easy-to-understand competitive analysis as it relates to technical SEO.
- Comfortable analyzing high volumes of data on a daily basis.
- Deep understanding of the WordPress CMS and all SEO related plugins. A functional knowledge of other popular CMS platforms and page builders is a plus.
- Experience with other aspects of marketing, such as customer growth, CRO, and promotion, is a plus.
Benefits - Starting from $60,000; pay commensurate with experience
- Work remotely from home
- Unlimited PTO
- 3% match Simple IRA
- 100% health insurance (including fully employer-funded coverage)