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Technical SEO Specialist

Rankings.io
Full-time
Remote
United States
SEO Specialist
Description

The 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)