The SEO interns will learn valuable techniques and assist with researching competitors that have achieved high rankings on Google, determining quality keywords, and executing strategic practices to help enhance the search engine results for our company and clients. SEO interns also have the opportunity to gain experience with Local SEO procedures and techniques, which involves setting up and optimizing client pages on location based search engines, such as Google Places and Bing Local.
Requirements:
- Total of 240 hours – averages to 20 hours per week
- Must have your own laptop to use in the office
- If the internship is fulfilling college credit, you must comply with all school requirements to fulfill internship credit
- Competent writer
- Able to work well in a team environment
- Good reputation online
- No posting of content on personal social media profiles that would conflict with professional image
- Interest in SEO and enthusiastic about learning more
Typical Daily Tasks
- Use of Basecamp and Google Documents to plan and organize tasks
- Using keyword tools to determine popular search queries
- Creating XML sitemaps
- Investigating competitors on page 1 of search engines to find out what they are doing correctly, what we could be doing that we are not, and what level of competition they are to clients
- Registering clients to Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools, and using these to pinpoint and fix problems such as broken links
- Submitting clients’ websites to related web indexes
- Creating guest posts to submit to related blogs and achieve links to clients’ websites
- Determining what keywords are bringing traffic to websites
- Setting up and optimizing pages on local SEO platforms, such as Google Places, Bing Local, Foursquare, and Yelp
- Occasional other duties related to your internship
* You also may assist with other team members. Examples are working with Online Reputation Management to get good search engine results to outrank results that are harmful to clients’ images, and assisting with daily Social Media Strategy efforts such as interacting on social networks and creating blog posts
This internship is non-paid, but may result in employment after the duration of the intern period.
How to Apply: Submit your resume with two writing samples to jobs@nowsourcing.com. Your writing samples can be from a class or a blog if you have one.