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News and trends is also an expected part of the job. However, SEO specialists are not expected to create content and build links. Of course, we didn’t presume to know everything so we added a question: Are there other roles and responsibilities you’d like to add that aren’t on this list? While a couple of people gave more specific examples of responsibilities, I thought this answer from Jessica Levenson was worth highlighting: Honestly, it’s a skillset. I want someone that is curious. They don’t have to have all the skills, they have to be willing to learn and be perpetually curious. Jessica Levenson Jessica Levenson, Head of Digital Strategy & SEO Oracle NetSuite Skills and requirements In this section, we presented the.

SEO hiring managers with 15 of the most common skills and requirements from Antigua and Barbuda Email List SEO Specialist job descriptions. We then asked if these skills were very important, somewhat important or not important to them if they were hiring a ‘SEO Specialist’. Here are the results. Interestingly, we can see that the skills that most, if not all respondents, agreed on are soft skills (e.g., attention to detail, data-driven mindset, communication) or attitude (e.g., passion for SEO and internet marketing). As Jessica Levenson added, Aptitude over experience is always my stance. I can teach anyone SEO provided they are willing and able. On the flip side, I cannot untrain tough personalities or an unwillingness to learn. Jessica Levenson Jessica Levenson, Head of Digital Strategy & SEO Oracle.



NetSuite Of course, that doesn’t mean that hard skills are not required. The respondents still agreed that a good understanding of SEO best practices, good technical SEO skills and prior experience in the SEO industry is preferred. How many years experience do hiring managers look for, exactly? Most of them said a minimum of 2+ years. Besides years of experience in the industry, most respondents also preferred that their SEO specialist have some experience with SEO tools. Here’s what they said after we asked which SEO tools in particular: Finally, most of them said “understanding code” was somewhat important. And here are the coding languages they said were important.