Local SEO Specialist

USA (Remote)

$4K/mo – $5K/moMid Level3+ years expContract

Posted 6 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own local SEO programs from audits to 6/12 month strategy, focusing on home service clients, with responsibilities spanning audits, optimization, reporting, and client communication.

  • Lead Google Business Profile audits, competitor analysis, and local citation work
  • Build 6/12-month SEO strategies and oversee on-page optimization and rank monitoring
  • Maintain client-ready reporting, support link building, and monthly client updates

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Google Business Profile Audit, Competitor Analysis and Optimization
  • Comprehensive website audits covering competitive, on-page, off-page, and technical
  • Building 6-month and 12-month SEO strategies tailored to each client and market
  • Local citation building, NAP consistency audits, and cleanup
  • Local keyword research, competitor analysis, and market research
  • On-page optimization: title tags, meta descriptions, headers, content
  • Rank monitoring and data-driven optimization recommendations
  • Maintaining clear, client-ready tracking and reporting systems
  • Support on link building and local content optimization
  • Assistance with monthly client reporting

Requirements

  • 3+ years of local SEO experience
  • Proven Local SEO SOPs
  • Strategic thinker, not just a task executor
  • Experience working with home service accounts
  • Ability to build and own 6/12-month strategy plans, not just execute a task list
  • Must provide a portfolio or audit sample demonstrating actual client work (Google Business Profile optimization, strategy, citation building, and on-page SEO)
  • Full-time exclusive commitment to this role, with no concurrent work for other agencies or clients
  • Strong written English for client-facing communication and reporting
  • Experience using AI as an additional tool, not their only tool — they need a strong local SEO foundation, using AI to amplify what they already know from experience
  • Experience managing 7–10 client campaigns at a time

Preferred

  • Past experience working with another local SEO agency that focused on home service businesses
  • Experience with Google Ads
  • Experience with Slack (our main communication platform)
  • Experience with schema markup / structured data implementation
  • Experience with Ai prompt and system engineering

Benefits

  • Paid time off

Salaries

Posted range

$4K/mo – $5K/mo

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