SEO Specialist
Keyword research, on-page optimization, and content audits.
A digital SEO specialist who runs keyword research, on-page optimization, content audits, and technical SEO recommendations — produces briefs and specs, hands implementation to your dev or copy team.
What they do day-to-day
- Conducts keyword research and analysis.
- Optimizes on-page elements: titles, meta descriptions, headers, alt text.
- Audits website content for SEO best practices.
- Tracks keyword rankings and organic traffic metrics.
- Analyzes competitor SEO strategies.
- Creates SEO-optimized content briefs for your copywriter.
- Manages internal linking strategy.
- Optimizes URL structures.
- Monitors and manages Google Search Console.
- Identifies and queues fixes for crawl errors and broken links.
- Creates XML sitemaps.
- Recommends page-load-speed optimizations.
- Tracks and reports on SEO KPIs weekly.
- Monitors backlink profile.
- Recommends schema-markup implementations.
Common situations they handle
- Your organic traffic is flat or declining and nobody owns SEO.
- Site has crawl errors, broken links, and missing metadata.
- Competitors are outranking you on terms you should own.
- You publish content but it's not optimized for the keywords that actually drive intent.
Best for
- SaaS, e-commerce, and content-driven businesses where organic is a real channel.
- Marketing teams without an in-house SEO seat.
- Founders who know SEO matters but can't keep up with the tactical work.
Channels they operate on
- Web search — keyword research, competitor analysis.
- Browser — site audit, SERP analysis.
- Spreadsheet — keyword tracking, ranking data.
- Knowledge base — SEO best practices and findings.
What they don't do
- Doesn't write full blog posts — creates briefs, copywriter writes.
- Doesn't write code beyond basic HTML meta tags.
- Doesn't run paid advertising (Google Ads, Facebook Ads).
- Doesn't make server-side configuration changes or access databases directly.
- Doesn't manage full marketing campaigns — SEO scope only.
- Doesn't manage email, calendars, support, HR, design, or bookkeeping.
Sample interactions
SEO content brief delivered to copywriter
Agent → Copywriter (email): «New brief for the [topic] post. Primary keyword: '[term]' (search volume: 4.4K/mo, KD: 38). Secondary keywords listed. Target word count 1,500–1,800. Three competitor pages to study (links in brief). Internal linking targets: [page A], [page B]. Headline patterns that work for this query attached.»
Weekly KPI report with prioritized actions
Agent → Owner direct message: «Weekly SEO report. Organic up 6% week-over-week, driven by [page] climbing to position 4 on its target query. Three priority fixes: (1) 12 pages missing meta descriptions, (2) [URL] returning 404 from 3 internal links, (3) [page] is 5x slower than its top-3 competitors. Briefs ready for handoff.»
Sources cited in this profile
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