Expected duration: Ongoing Greetings - I'll try to keep this short as I know you read a lot of these posts every day.
I'm looking for someone to support my agency by providing local SEO for a growing list of local business projects. Examples of these might be a local roofing company, a junk removal company, or another local service company. Some of these are simple with 1 service area and 1 GMB. Others are complex, with 8 services, 15 service areas, and 8 gmbs.
1. SCOPE OF WORK
My primary focus is on-page SEO. Setting our foundation as well as possible before ANY link building. Keyword & market research, website architecture and mapping, one-page optimizations and content optimizations, and so on. Link building would come AFTER all that, and is not my primary focus.
2. EXPERTISE
Please do not come at me with ancient strategies that worked 4 years ago.
I am a member of a lot of SEO groups and familiar with most SEO trends and latest strategies, I know what I am doing to some degree - I can discuss these things with you.
BUT I'm looking to hire someone who continually learns and improves their skills, who I don't have to train from scratch, and who can self-direct. I'm not interested in training someone from scratch, so if you're new or unproven here on Upwork, no hard feelings but I'm not the right fit for you.
3. REQUESTS
Please please please read this and consider it when you apply.
1. The more proof of your work the better. Nothing else matters if this isn't there. If you can prove with concrete examples that you have a real history of building and ranking local business brands, that means more to me than any nice opening chat gpt message.
2. Be conversational and communicative. If I don't get along with you, I won't work with you. A lot of the time people respond to a job post with a really nice message but then the follow up communication simply sucks. Please don't be that person.
3. Be ready to discuss budgeting and so on. I'm a fair person and pay well for good work - but it must be good.
Thank you for your time and energies. I look forward to hearing from you.
BUDGET is placeholder because this would be an ongoing contract.
