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http://www.minted.com/jobs/list?jvi=otVw0fwE,Job Reporting to the VP Marketing, the Director of SEO is responsible for driving the company’s search engine optimization strategy and practice. You will develop creative strategies that increase Minted’s traffic and revenue from organic search. We’re seeking a creative, dynamic, and detail-obsessed SEO expert. You will lead a team of scrappy SEOs, formulate and drive our on-site and off-site SEO strategy, and act as the chief SEO advocate and explainer inside the company, educating engineers, PMs, designers, and marketers, alike in order to make Minted a world-class SEO company. You will build Minted’s SEO strategy across our burgeoning set of new ecommerce verticals, product categories, proprietary content, and user community. About the Company: Minted is a design marketplace connecting consumers with the world’s best artists to create something one-of-a-kind. Combining community with commerce, Minted was founded by a successful serial entrepreneur and has been featured on the Today Show, Wall Street Journal, InStyle, Real Simple, Martha Stewart Weddings, Daily Candy, TechCrunch, and many other national media outlets. We come from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, eBay, Yahoo, Goldman Sachs and numerous disruptive startups. This is a great opportunity to learn from a stellar executive team and work on a world-changing product, all supported by a proven business model. Responsibilities: Formulate creative on-site and off-site strategies that build sustainable, scalable, white hat competitive advantages for Minted in SEO Bring industry best practices into the organization by keeping abreast of the latest ideas in SEO and translating them into internal processes and strategies Act as the chief SEO evangelist inside the company, creating internal training programs and processes that ensure that good SEO decisions are made throughout the organization Lead an SEO team that serves Minted’s multi-vertical businesses, helping each of your team members adapt your strategy to the needs of their particular category Design processes and train your team to take on SEO modeling, forecasting, analytics, research, site optimization, and reporting practices Own and manage traffic and revenue goals from organic search for the company as a whole and for each of our major businesses Skills and Experience: Bachelor’s degree with a high GPA 8+ years of online marketing and/or technical experience 5+ years of SEO experience required, SEO experience within ecommerce is a plus Extremely strong technical understanding of SEO, including relevant topics in website architecture, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML Knowledge of SQL is a plus Very strong analytical skills, including building complex Excel models Clear verbal and written communicator People management experience is a plus Teaching, coaching, or training experience is a plus http://www.minted.com/jobs/list?jvi=otVw0fwE,Job

I run a small web design and digital marketing agency but we're growing fast. Since October we've employed 1 web developer and made use of a lot of partnerships to sub contract work out and get it all done. I'm now ready to employ a person to take on a digital marketing role. I potentially have someone lined up (a strong person) who has a lot of experience with PR & building relationships and she has worked with the two largest local newspaper publishers in our area. Therefore, she has a lot of connections with journalists. She has also run an events company (owned by one of the newspaper publishers) pretty much single handed for the last few years so she has some good experience in that area as far as PR and marketing goes too. However, the person I am looking for is digital marketing account manager. However, given that SEO is moving away from traditional tactics and more towards content marketing, outreach and PR I though that she might be a good fit after all and then teaching her the digital side. She will be my first employee in the digital marketing team and leading the digital marketing and SEO campaigns. I'm interested to hear people thoughts on hiring in this way or should I just stick with a traditional SEO person and help them move to the new world? (if they need it). Thanks.

Hi All, I have been at this SEO for only a couple of months with the goal of getting a job in an SEO company. My question is....What is it that SEO companies are looking for? What do I need to know for me to have a chance at landing the job? I am working on 2 sites at the moment and was thinking of applying for a job by showing them what i know and what I have done so far with these 2 companies. Is there a special way of presenting this data to them? All thoughts and knowledge welcome. Thanks again, Aidan

I have a small company that has struggled over the past three years to get on its feet.  We've finally made it in the retail sector building a nice client base and delivering beyond what is expected. I'm trying not to make mistakes and have been doing the SEO on my own with a SEO word pack plug in for our Wordpress site and all the training videos I could handle from SEOMOZ and Hubspot (forever grateful).  I have a list of 200 key words and only a handful are on the first page, but with that it has meant the difference between getting paycheck for not. It's now time for us to hire an expert.  Here's what I want. 1.  Quality back links with a MOZ grade higher than mine. 2.  All the errors fixed in my site that I don't understand from the reports generated by the MOZ tool. 3.  A weekly report of the sites that have created a link and its MOZ ranking. 4.  Ongoing support and tracking of progress with no black hat techniques. 5.  3 client references with a name and number that I can speak to. Am I asking too much?  I'm told that client information is confidential and couldn't be release.  If I'm in a completely different sector of retail, would that matter? What questions should I be asking?  If you were me, what would you do?