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Your Role:

The SEO Linkbuilding / Outreach Specialist is responsible for developing off-site SEO, guest posting relationships and link building to improve authority.

Consider this position if:

You have a sound understanding of SEO and the purpose of link building.
You understand that finding good prospects for outreach is very dependent on the needs and parameters of our individual website/niche.

What you’ll be doing:

Link Building: Promote our articles, guides and content through concerted email outreach to get authoritative websites and publications to link to our site. Also, creating directory citations for the sites we support.
Outreach Projects: Try out new outreach methods and experiment with existing methods to improve our results and find new link building strategies we can potentially scale.
Relationship Building: Familiarize yourself with one or more online niches, identify key influencers and start conversations with them. Maintain these relationships to produce positive results for both parties.
Tracking: Ability to track your link building efforts. Monthly reporting is expected on each account.

What you’ll need to have:

Our ideal SEO Linkbuilding / Outreach Specialist is self-motivated, driven, thoughtful and responsive with strong critical thinking skills. To help us build our library of contacts and coordinate our outreach, you’ll need to meet the following criteria:

1-3 years’ experience in link building, link acquisition and outreach knowledge and genuine interest in best practices of SEO and the Internet, especially as they relate to link building.
You have experience working with industry standard tools such as (one or more highly preferred): BuzzStream, Ahrefs, Link Prospector, Dibz.me, Ontolo, Web scraper.
You have completed SEO site research for link building campaigns before (and you can demonstrate this).
You are a proficient and accurate written communicator with experience managing outreach campaigns and building a database of contacts.
A proven track record of quality link building campaigns, resulting in increased backlinks to the target organization and improved SERP rankings.
You have a deep desire to understand the product and represent it accurately and effectively.
You have the capacity to work independently while remaining open and responsive to feedback.
You have a mastery of the English language and outstanding written communication skills.
You are highly effective with managing deadlines, multitasking, and communicating with your team.
You are experienced in sending, following up on and organizing outreach to a large database of contacts.