Remote Local SEO Growth Strategist

Rankings.io; United States; Remote; USD 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Starting salary $55,000

Fully remote

Unlimited PTO

$100 Wellness reimbursement

Quarterly training stipend

401(k) with 3% match

Employer-paid health insurance

Job summary

Rankings.io is seeking a Local SEO Specialist in the United States to manage local listings, optimize Google Business Profiles, and drive growth for client accounts. You will collaborate with content and SEO teams, analyze performance data, and pursue opportunities for expanding client investments.

You will engage with clients, verify GBP listings across locations, and stay current with local SEO best practices and industry trends.

Qualifications

• 1-2+ years experience doing SEO work for clients within an agency environment.
• 2+ years of experience in local SEO or local SEO listings management for enterprise brand(s).
• 2 years client facing experience

Responsibilities

• Work with an established service client managing their local listings and demonstrating an advanced understanding of Local SEO.
• Collaborate with the client’s established data aggregator vendors and partners to boost inbound citation growth
• Create, claim, and verify Google Business Profile listings across multiple locations
• Optimize core GBP fields: business categories, descriptions, services, products, and attributes
• Troubleshoot GBP suspensions, reinstatements, and verification issues
• Utilize business acumen to work closely with client teams to identify and fully understand business needs, campaign performance objectives, and opportunities to grow the relationship and client investments
• Assemble reports to develop and present recommendations for clients and rank software to gauge progress and inform the client of the value being provided
• Partner with SEO teams and account management to identify geographic keywords to attract local customers and ensure the development of high-quality, optimized local content for the website
• Identifying critical client/account issues and escalating them to appropriate executives in a timely manner
• Keep up with the SEO (national and local) and AI industry through blogs, publishers, competitive research, etc. and regularly sharing thought leadership
• Expected to retain existing business, while pursuing profitable growth opportunities for assigned client account, both in SEO investments and cross-channel upsells

Skills

Local SEO

GBP Management

Client relations

Content collaboration

Keyword research

Analytics

Tools

Semrush

Ahrefs

Google Apps

WordPress basics

Job description

Rankings.io is seeking a Local SEO Specialist in the United States to manage local listings, optimize Google Business Profiles, and drive growth for client accounts. You will collaborate with content and SEO teams, analyze performance data, and pursue opportunities for expanding client investments.

You will engage with clients, verify GBP listings across locations, and stay current with local SEO best practices and industry trends.