We're Hiring: SEO Specialist Position
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At ne-web Ltd, we have been providing successful digital services for over 10 years. We currently work with a large number of diverse SEO clients with new companies joining every day. To accommodate our success we are pro-actively expanding our SEO department and require driven individuals to come and work for one of the North East's top digital companies.

SEO Specialist

A vacancy has arisen in our highly successful SEO department for an SEO specialist with experience of professional search engine optimisation for businesses.

Role: SEO Specialist

Location: Gateshead / Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary & Benefits: Negotiable, depending on experience

Closing Date: 29 Feb 2012 

Person Specification

We're looking for someone who is passionate about digital and who has some demonstrable experience in the digital marketing and website development field, whether this has been gained in an agency or an in-house team.

Ideally we're looking for someone with a creative spark, but who has a strong technical knowledge with excellent analytical skills and attention to detail. You will manage a portfolio of client's online marketing campaigns so it is essential that you have good communication skills.  You should also be commercially orientated and able to proactively grow your client accounts. We are very results oriented and the focus is very much on providing clients with return on investment.

Quality Essential Desirable
Education Degree calibre individual. Degree in Marketing with Online
Experience At least 2 years experience working with websites, updating content, & images.
SEO & PPC plays key role in delivery.
Copywriting skills essential.
Experience of working with large dynamic websites.
Able to specify technical changes to technical/development teams.
Has worked in e-commerce SEO
Specialist Knowledge An in depth understanding of search engines, search engine optimisation & factors that influence high rankings in Google. Other online marketing activities that impact on SEO, eg. SMO, experience with PPC.
Can demonstrate successful linkbuilding campaigns that result in the acquisition of large volumes of inbound, high quality links.
Skills A high standard of written English.
A highly analytical mind, comfortable manipulating & analysing large amounts of data using excel 2007.
Experience of web analytics tools.
Experience of using a CMS & an understanding of the impact they have on SEO.
Basic HTML skills.
Experience with Wordpress.
Experience in managing small projects.
Advanced use of Microsoft Word & Excel.
Ability to handcode W3C compliant XHTML.
PHP coding skills.
Understanding of Apache rewrite, how to setup & test for 301 redirects, duplicate content, URL canonicalisation.

Job Specification

Reporting directly to the Managing Director your main duties will include:

  • Producing regular audits of the performance of client websites, making recommendations using your SEO skills / Knowledge to grow traffic on the site.
  • Produce ideas for new initiatives based on your keyword research data with an estimation of the likely impact to enable prioritisation of the work.
  • Working closely with designers, developers and our clients to support projects and make sure their delivery is "SEO friendly".
  • Producing detailed SEO reports on a monthly basis detailing the impacts made by your work.
  • Maintain a record of all SEO implementations carried out.
  • You will be expected to stay up to date in new developments in SEO and actively researching, testing and proposing new approaches to improving search engine rankings.

Apply now by email with your CV and some examples of your work to Jonathan Porter, jonathan (at) ne-web.com including the words 'SEO Job' in the subject line.

Strictly no agencies please.

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