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SEO specialist

Covers keyword research, content, technical health, links, diagnosing traffic drops and reporting. Suits junior to senior SEO roles in-house or at an agency. Follow-ups push for how the candidate found the problem, what they changed and how they proved the effect.

Suits: SEO specialist, SEO manager, Organic search manager, Technical SEO specialist

Questions
7 of 17
Length
35 min
Format
Voice or typed
Levels
Junior to Senior
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Example
  1. Interviewer: Tell me about a time you changed someone's mind at work. How did you go about it?

  2. Candidate: Our team wanted to rebuild the billing page from scratch, and I thought it was the wrong call, so we put together a plan to…

  3. Follow-up

    Interviewer: You said "we". What did you say yourself, and what finally changed their mind?

  4. Scored on

    • Research and strategy25%
    • Technical SEO30%
    • Diagnosis and measurement25%
    • Influence and delivery20%

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  • Research and strategy25%
    Picks topics and keywords by intent and business value.
  • Technical SEO30%
    Finds and fixes crawl, indexing and site structure problems safely.
  • Diagnosis and measurement25%
    Finds the cause of changes and ties SEO results to revenue.
  • Influence and delivery20%
    Gets SEO work done through writers, developers and leaders.
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