The latest jobs in search marketing
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Topic: Recruitment
The best SEO hires bring judgment, not just expertise
Technical SEO is only part of the equation. Here’s how to assess senior candidates for judgment, problem-solving, and business impact.
The worst thing you can be in an SEO job interview is forgettable
SEO skills are now the baseline. Learn how side projects, experiments, and other tangible work can make you more memorable.
An open letter to everyone hiring a search leader
The Anthropic job posting everyone’s dunking on is the new standard. Companies that get it right will quietly win the next decade.
How to build a paid media team in the AI age
Most hiring checklists are stuck in 2017. Here’s how to spot marketers who can outpace algorithms and rivals alike.
How to build a high-performing paid search team
Strategies for assembling an effective PPC team, including tips on hiring experienced vs. new talent, defining roles and more.
How to navigate negative Glassdoor and Indeed company reviews
Dealing with negative reviews from former employees? Here’s how to respond properly and protect your company's online reputation.
How to spot potential in SEO candidates
New SEO hires don't need to master every tool and skill out of the gate. Learn to spot transferable abilities that show capacity for growth.
How to use PPC advertising to attract top talent in any industry
Discover how PPC ads can support talent acquisition, help your company capture passive candidates and stand out as an employer of choice.
3 overlooked SEO conversion metrics to consider
SEO conversions are more than direct sales and leads. Consider these metrics that can show SEO's value to your organization.
What is LinkedIn?
LinkedIn is a social network founded in 2003, now owned by Microsoft. LinkedIn is a social platform like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the like, but unlike these other platforms, it is focussed on business. It is a networking platform for professionals to connect, learn, and share knowledge. It is designed to allow people to create […]
For video ads, longer is better
On average, brands saw up to 50% higher conversions with longer videos compared to shorter ones.
How to write an effective SEO job description
Learn five of the biggest mistakes to avoid when writing SEO job descriptions and how to make your job listing stand out.
10 SEO experts share their favorite interview questions
Hiring for SEO roles? Asking these questions can help you separate the pretenders from the contenders during interviews.
How to interview and hire for entry-level digital marketing positions
Does your agency or brand need to hire employees with little or no digital marketing experience? Try these helpful tips and questions.
5 ways marketers can support entry-level SEO talent
With a huge demand for SEO specialists, marketers shouldn't neglect entry-level talent. At SMX Next, Abby Reimer shared how brands can find and support these SEOs.
A Schema.org replacement for Google’s phased-out Structured Data Testing Tool; Thursday’s daily brief
Plus, most marketing execs don’t make data-driven decisions
The business imperative behind inclusion and diversity
“Without talent you don't have an agency,” said Dr. Tucker.
How to source and vet content writers [Video]
Get a head start on your content marketing campaigns by knowing where to look and what to look out for when hiring content writers.
What does commitment to diversity look like in an organization?
The role of employee resource groups and why you need clear goals.
Replay: Addressing diversity, recruitment and retainment in agencies and marketing teams
How (and why) to ingrain a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion in your company's recruiting, hiring and retainment practices.
Actionable ways to drive diversity, equity and inclusion in your marketing organization
How to stop paying lip service to diversity and create meaningful change in the marketing and advertising industry.
The right way to hire an SEO
Experienced SEOs share what you need to know before starting your search and how to find and vet quality SEO candidates.
Findera search engine helps recruiters find talent, sales find leads
The San Francisco-based startup’s new offering is free, enables multi-attribute searches and covers 130 million professionals worldwide.
How to find good writers and other content marketing struggles
You get what you pay for when it comes to copywriters says contributor Jessica Foster. Here's a look at how to hire good copywriters that will help drive traffic and sales to your site.
Apple expanding successful Search Ads to three new English-speaking markets
Ads will begin serving in the UK, Australia and New Zealand on April 25.
Google releases new video on how to hire an SEO consultant
Thinking of hiring an SEO firm or consultant? Watch this video from Google's Maile Ohye on what questions to ask and what to look for during that hiring process.
Google Is Hiring An SEO Manager To Improve Its Rankings In Google
Hey SEOs! Looking for a new place to work? Google is hiring a SEO to help drive more organic traffic to its web properties.
Infographic: It’s Quite A Job To Get Hired By Google
Google’s hiring process is pretty infamous. Multiple interviews. Sign-off at the very top. And those crazy interview questions! It’s a wonder that anyone gets a job. The folks at Jobvine have put together an infographic illustrating the hiring process at Google, along with some interesting employment stats about the company, including salaries and growth in employees, […]
Why You Can’t Compare Google+ User Figures To Facebook & Twitter
Google announced that Google+ has 40 million users today. Woo-hoo! That’s nearly half what Twitter claims, right? And while it’s below Facebook’s 800 million, Google’s getting there, right? Wrong. The number simply can’t be compared to Facebook and Twitter. Active Users Vs. Sign-Ups Let’s start with Facebook. At various points, Facebook has given out a […]
How To Hire A Great In-House Search Engine Marketer (Or Not)
At search engine marketing conferences, I am often asked for advice on how to hire people for in-house search engine marketing jobs. Usually over lunch a business owner turns to me and says something like, I came here to learn more about all this search engine stuff and what I learned is that I need […]
Google’s Human Text File: google.com/human.txt
Go to google.com/human.txt and you will find a text file recruiting new Google engineers to the company. The file reads: Google is built by a large team of engineers, designers, researchers, robots, and others in many different sites across the globe. It is updated continuously, and built with more tools and technologies than we can […]
What’s It Like To Be A Google Search Engineer?
As you may know, Google is hiring search quality engineers. They are hiring across the board in search, including synonyms and spell correction, core ranking, UI changes, evaluation, and webspam. To apply, fill out this form. As part of their hiring efforts, Google has released a video named Search Engineering at Google. Some of your […]
Did A Google Employee Just Register Hiybbprqag.com To Help Recruit New Employees?
That’s a screenshot of Google’s “Jobs” page, which can be found at https://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/index.html. But it can also be reached by going to hiybbprqag.com, which does a 302 redirect to the Google.com URL. Say what? And who? And why? Let’s sort this out: “Hiybbprqag” is one of the nonsense words that Google used in its sting […]
Robots.txt Recruiter: Daily Mail Uses Robots.txt File To Find SEO
Malcolm Coles spotted that the Daily Mail, one of the UK’s largest papers, changed their robots.txt file to include a line which reads: # August 12th, MailOnline are looking for a talented SEO Manager so if you found this then you’re the kind of techie we need!# Send your CV to holly dot ward at […]
Google’s Hiring Again
Google to Go on Hiring Spree from MediaWeek reports Google is looking to hire an additional 500 sales people in the near future, as well as bulk up their engineering team and finance, product management and human resources departments. 2009 and parts of 2008, were touch times for most companies, including Google. Google laid off […]
Yahoo Beefing Up Social Scientist Staffing In Yahoo Labs
Yahoo has suffered attrition and a brain drain of top talent for the past couple of years. Google and Microsoft, in some cases, have been beneficiaries of those defections. Indeed, we’ve been lamenting the loss of engineers and talent at Yahoo for some time. Now, however, the SF Chronicle reports on a new hiring effort. […]
Cute: Yahoo Targets Former Employee Names on Google AdWords
TechCrunch has screen shots of Google AdWords ads targeting Joshua Schachter, a former well-known Yahoo employee, and leading to Yahoo’s recruiting web site. In fact, Joshua Schachter tweeted about it yesterday, where he said, “yahoo’s running recruiting ads against my name. classy.” Soon later, Rasmus Lerdorf, another former Yahoo employee, tweeted that he was being […]
Yahoo Search Engineers, Google Wants To Hire You
Matt Cutts of Google has blogged that Google is willing to hire Yahoo Search engineers. Matt said, “if you’re an excellent Yahoo engineer with solid experience in search, Google is hiring.” Clearly, since the Microsoft & Yahoo deal, engineers at Yahoo might be a bit concerned about their job stability. Ask.com ran a funny poaching […]
Amongst Google Layoffs, Google Continues To Hire
Last week, Google laid off 200 sales and marketing employees but this does not mean Google is not hiring. Google layoffs don’t stop hiring efforts from Reuters reports Google has 360 job openings on their web site. A Google spokesperson has confirmed that Google is still hiring, amongst those layoffs. In fact, 30 or so […]