Remote Junior SEO Specialist at Yoast (Newfold Digital)

Yoast is looking for an SEO specialist with at least 2 years of agency or in-house SEO experience. You will be both consulting and implementing SEO best practices while building on your knowledge and skills with our experienced team.

Who you are & what you’ll need to succeed.

• Knowledge and ongoing passion for current & future SEO practices, trends and developments.
• Proactive and methodical attitude to work
• Punctuality and good time management
• Commercially astute with a keen eye for detail
• Ability to work with data and manipulate it to provide insights to help increase visibility and conversion
• Understand Yoast’s business goals and apply them within your own KPIs
• Delivering Keyword research & landing page optimization recommendations
• Maintain on-page best practices for both SEO and performance
• Undertaking competitor analysisWrite SEO-friendly content for yoast.com

Who We Are.

Newfold Digital is a leading web technology company serving millions of customers globally. Our customers know us through our robust portfolio of brands. We have some of the industry's most prominent and storied go-to-market brands, including Bluehost, HostGator, Domain.com, Yoast, MarkMonitor, and Web.com. We help customers of all sizes build a digital presence that delivers results. With our extensive product offerings and personalized support, we take pride in collaborating with our customers to serve their online presence needs. The strength of our company lives in the intersection of our people, our customers, and our brands.

In August 2021, Yoast joined the company Newfold Digital. Joining forces with this leading web-presence solutions provider will help us reach even more people to help them improve their SEO. It enables us to expand on our work across many platforms and bring more of our SEO ideas into practice. A big change, but a lot will also remain the same: our team, our brand, our headquarters in Wijchen, and Yoast SEO. And, of course, our mission: SEO for everyone.

Yoast is looking for an SEO specialist with at least 2 years of agency or in-house SEO experience. You will be both consulting and implementing SEO best practices while building on your knowledge and skills with our experienced team.

The role will include involvement in areas like product & feature ideation, internal education, content creation, evolving our own SEO strategies, public speaking, and identifying opportunities to drive growth.

What you’ll do & how you’ll make your mark. 

• You have a keen eye and are completely comfortable using tools plus manual checks to provide sound technical SEO recommendations and advice.
• We are looking for a highly organized, methodical, and motivated individual with great communication skills and a passion for SEO.
• We will expect you to have at least 2 years of real-life, practical experience whilst being willing to expand your knowledge continually.
• You have an understanding of tools such as Majestic, Screaming Frog + others. You know CMS’s and how they can impact onsite SEO, especially with WordPress. It’s a plus if you have experience in e-commerce SEO.

• Work-life balance. Our work is thrilling and meaningful, but we know balance is key to living well. 
• We celebrate one another’s differences.  We’re proud of our culture of diversity and inclusion. We foster a culture of belonging. Our company and customers benefit when employees bring their authentic selves to work. We have programs that bring us together on important issues and provide learning and development opportunities for all employees.  We have 20 + affinity groups where you can network and connect with Newfolders globally. 
• We care about you. Yoast provides learning and development opportunities; 10% of your annual salary is used towards a training budget and a personal trainer. If you reside in the Netherlands, the Yoast Car is available to all employees, events throughout the year, a pension scheme where we pay 100% of the pension premium, Thursday afternoon drinks, and much more! 
• Where can we take you? We’re fans of helping our employees learn different aspects of the business, be challenged with new tasks, be mentored, and grow their careers. Unfold new possibilities with Yoast #teamnewfold!