SEO Copywriter

Downers Grove, IL (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own website copy that elevates brand voice, engages audiences, and improves search visibility by combining research, SEO best practices, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

  • Content Strategy & Writing: translate client goals into consistent, engaging website copy aligned with brand voice.
  • SEO & Research: apply SEO copywriting and topic research to boost rankings and relevance.
  • Quality & Efficiency: edit, proofread, and leverage AI tools to speed throughput while maintaining accuracy.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Create compelling and engaging copy for client websites, ensuring consistency in brand voice, tone, and messaging.
  • Collaborate with internal team members to understand content strategies and writing assignments.
  • Conduct thorough research to understand clients’ product or service offerings and their value propositions to enhance the effectiveness of written content.
  • Implement SEO copywriting best practices to improve website visibility and search engine rankings.
  • Edit and proofread copy for accuracy, grammar, and style.
  • Leverage the latest AI tools for efficiency gains in understanding of subject matter, writing quality and throughput.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in English, Marketing, Communications, or a related field.
  • 3+ years experience as a Website Copywriter in a similar agency role.
  • Exceptional writing, editing, and proofreading skills.
  • Experience with SEO copywriting and a solid understanding of SEO best practices.
  • Strong portfolio showcasing a variety of web copy samples.
  • Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and meet tight deadlines.
  • Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
  • Hard-working, self-directed, and effective working independently.

Benefits

  • Our highly competitive benefits package includes a 401(k), FSA, paid time off (for vacation, illness and personal time) along with health, dental, vision, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance.
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Straight North

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Straight North is an industry-leading digital marketing agency providing SEO, paid advertising, web design/development and creative services since 1997.Our targeted solutions are designed to help your business attract the right customers, drive sales, generate sales leads, and increase e-commerce revenue.We provide leading SEO services to many types of businesses across a wide range of industry verticals. We have experienced, specialized teams focused on B2B, B2C, ecommerce, local, national, small business, and enterprise campaigns. We keep our finger on the pulse of the SEO industry, ensuring that we always employ the latest proven methods. Our paid advertising services include campaigns running on Google, Bing, Facebook and Instagram. Our skilled team combined with their mastery of AI-driven bid/budget management technology helps us keep you on top of your competition. Our team of web designers, developers, copywriters and project managers are experts in UX, CRO and SEO and focus on creating websites that generate sales leads. Our creative services team produces a wide range of traditional marketing and communication materials that effectively promote brands, products and services.

Founded in 1997
Downers Grove, Illinois, USA
104 employees (58 in marketing)
91% recommend to a friend
99% CEO approval

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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
39.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$674.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.7%
Direct
43.7%
Referral
9.7%
Social
5.5%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~104

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
51 (49% of company)

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