SEO Specialist

**We are looking for a skilled SEO Specialist to join the ViVa team**

**About ViVa Outsourcing**:
ViVa Outsourcing is a Cape Town based Start Up, providing business services to international clients. We have ambitious growth expectations, as we operate in the exciting and fast-growing field of online learning. Our offices are in an attractive setting, within a well looked after business park in Tokai. This is an outstanding opportunity to start this journey together with us and to build a dynamic, motivated team around you.

**About our client**:
Our client is a leading provider of certification examinations all over the world. For more than 10 years, they have played a large role in certifying the know-how of IT professionals in over 90 countries on 6 continents in 10 languages. With over 30,000 certifications per year, they paves the way for successful career development.

**Overview**

SEO Specialist Execute both on-page and off-page SEO, analyze the SEO campaign performance, and recommend actionable strategies to improve SEO rankings Monitors the keyword rankings and overseas the overall organic search performance, ensuring target ranking positions and KPIs are achieved. Performs a complete website SEO analysis on a regular basis and provides recommendations for improvements of website content and link building campaigns.

**Responsibilities**

▪ Perform keyword research on a regular basis

▪ Develop keyword plans through conducting keyword research on a regular basis to generate content ideas and optimize existing content

▪ Plan and oversee the entire website architecture, restructuring page hierarchy where necessary

▪ Optimize web pages such as the homepage, landing pages, blog posts, product pages (on-page SEO) in terms of improving content quality, keyword optimization, and user experience to boost organic search rankings

▪ Write SEO-optimized Content

▪ Manage SEO-related assets, tools/pla,tforms including Google My Business, Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Google Keyword Planner, Ahrefs

▪ Identify and close content gaps between company website and competitor content

▪ Conduct regular technical SEO audits and work with the web development team to fix technical website issues (e.g. slow page load speeds, page crawl errors, and duplicate content) that may negatively impact organic search rankings

▪ Conduct full-scale SEO audit (technical, on-page, and off-page) on both mobile and desktop website versions to provide recommendations for improvement in key areas such as keyword optimization on meta tags and images, content quality, and link building ▪ Execute link-building campaigns through the creation and promotion of linkable assets, outreach, and submission-based link building

▪ Integrate on-page and off-page SEO (link building) with content marketing, social media marketing, and digital PR initiatives

▪ Implement local and international SEO techniques across local (Google My Business listings) and international websites

▪ Regularly track and monitor new and existing keyword ranking positions and devise integrated marketing strategies to increase organic search rankings

▪ Measure key SEO metrics such as organic traffic, ranking positions, domain authority, conversion and conversion rates, engagement metrics such as dwell time and organic return visits and provide recommendations for improvement

▪ Perform competitive analysis to benchmark current SEO performance against competitors and devise strategies to surpass competitors

▪ Keep up to date with the latest SEO trends, search algorithm updates, and new SEO tools and best practices

**Salary**: R20,000.00 - R40,000.00 per month

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Cape Town, Western Cape: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)