Central Employment are delighted to be working with an established Newcastle based Digital agency, as they look to recruit a Technical SEO Consultant.
£24,000-£30,000 DOE
Hybrid working after training and on-boarding period
Lots of personal development opportunities.
The agency has a proven track record of garnering long-term client relationships by creating and executing long-term digital marketing strategies that deliver results through continuous improvement and recurring innovation. In addition to delivering integrated digital marketing campaigns, you will also play an integral role working with the web and software development teams who work on our ‘new build projects. Starting with the initial pitch for a new project, you will be involved in providing best advice on site and URL structure, schema mark-up, navigation and conversion, through to the sign off and post live tech check.
You will be part of a collaborative culture, working in a relaxed, yet focused, open plan office, surrounded by like minded creative and technical professionals all committed to adding value to the client campaigns and projects, delivering results for the agency's clients and further developing the agency's proposition and competitive edge.
Duties of the Technical SEO Consultant:
- Playing a leading role in strategic discussions about how SEO can solve client's business challenges and drive marketing performance.
- Carry out technical site audits – creating clear roadmaps and evidence-based strategies to deliver results for clients.
- Contribute to the new business process by creating high impact audits on prospective client's digital position with the intent of driving action.
- Taking ownership of client's digital performance and technical integrity.
- Define key metrics that drive SEO performance and create qualitative and quantitative reporting to show progress.
- Develop and implement link acquisition plans, including the identification of target sites, content opportunities and content ideas.
- Carrying out competitor analysis, backlink audits, keyword research, and other research projects as required.
- Give detailed site architecture and URL structure recommendations to the in-house development teams including international and multi-language projects.
- Troubleshoot and debug roadblocks in search engines or users accessing content
- Resolve complex indexation and crawlability issues.
- Staying abreast of developments and drive innovation in technical SEO best practice and share knowledge across the team where applicable.
- Develop new ways to improve, track and monitor search performance.
- Identify content optimisation opportunities across various digital channels.
Experience required:
- Proficiency in using the Microsoft Office package
- 3+ yrs within a dedicated Technical SEO role
- A good understanding of SEO principles and Google best practice
- Great knowledge of Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools
- A working knowledge of how HTML, CSS and JavaScript work together
- A basic understanding of client-server behaviour, and the HTTP protocol.
- Good knowledge website crawling tools, Screaming Frog and Deep Crawl
- First-hand experience of using popular CMS, like WordPress.