SEO & AEO/GEO Project Manager

Read the job description in full. This is for individuals (no agencies). Hourly rate is $4-7/hour firm. Must be able to communicate between 9am-11am California time on working days. MUST have strong spoken and written English 5-10 hours per week to start with opportunity for more hours as we scale. ----- We are a digital marketing agency looking for an experienced SEO & AEO/GEO Project Manager to manage ongoing SEO, Local SEO, AEO, and GEO campaigns for our clients. This is primarily a strategy, research, quality control, and project management role. We already have team members responsible for content writing, backlink building, and other execution. Your job will be to determine what needs to be done, provide clear direction to the team, make sure work is completed correctly and on time, review the finished work, and keep campaigns moving forward. We will provide training and SOP's. You should have hands-on experience with SEO, Local SEO, AEO, and GEO, including optimizing brands and websites for visibility across Google and AI/LLM platforms. What You'll Be Responsible For Keyword & Prompt Research When onboarding a new client, you will research the search opportunities we should target. For traditional SEO and Local SEO campaigns, this includes: - Keyword research - Primary and secondary keyword selection - Local search opportunities - Competitor research - Identifying pages and content we should create or improve For AEO/GEO campaigns, this includes: - Researching the questions and prompts we want clients to appear for in LLMs - Identifying valuable topics related to the client's services and target audience - Determining what content could improve the client's visibility across AI search and answer platforms - Researching competitors and existing AI search results Our primary SEO research tools are Ahrefs and/or Semrush, so experience with at least one is important. Content Strategy & Content Calendar Our typical goal is to produce approximately 1-2 blogs per client per week. You will be responsible for coming up with the topics and providing reasons as to why we should create content for those topics. Our research team and writing team will write the content. For each piece of content, you will typically provide the content team with: - Target keyword or LLM prompt - Recommended title/topic - Primary keyword - Secondary keywords - A short content brief explaining the angle, purpose, and important information to cover We want content that is relevant, useful, valuable to the reader, and has a realistic opportunity to improve visibility in Google or LLM results. You will maintain content calendars and make sure the writing team has a consistent pipeline of researched and approved topics. Content Quality Control Once the content team completes an article, you will review it before it moves to the posting/publishing stage. This includes: - Reading and reviewing the completed content - Making sure it properly addresses the intended topic and search intent - Checking that important keywords and topics are covered naturally - Checking links and making sure they work - Reviewing internal links for relevance - Making sure images are relevant and make sense within the content - Checking for obvious factual, grammatical, or quality issues - Making sure the content follows the original brief - Sending work back for revisions when necessary - Approving completed work for the posting team You will not be expected to write all of the content yourself. Our posting team will generally handle publishing, although you may occasionally be asked to help create or publish posts when needed. Backlink Project Management We have team members responsible for backlink outreach and purchasing. Your responsibility is to make sure our backlink strategy is actually being executed. You will: - Follow our backlink SOPs and campaign requirements - Track how many backlinks should be acquired for each client - Make sure the link-building team stays on schedule - Track backlink orders and their status - Confirm completed placements - Check links to make sure they are live and working - Identify delayed, missing, or incorrect placements - Follow up with the appropriate team member when something needs attention - Submit backlinks for indexing You are managing the process rather than personally conducting all backlink outreach. Client Reporting Every two weeks, you will prepare client campaign updates following our existing reporting SOP. You will use our data, tools, and Google Sheets to organize updates on work completed and campaign progress. Reports may include: - Content completed - Content currently in progress - Backlinks acquired - SEO work completed - Keyword or visibility updates - AEO/GEO progress - Important observations You should be comfortable working with spreadsheets, tracking deliverables, and keeping information organized. Tools & Experience Required: SEO experience - Local SEO experience - AEO experience - GEO / LLM optimization experience - Keyword research - Content planning and content briefs - Ahrefs and/or Semrush - Strong written and spoken English - Google Sheets - Strong research skills - Excellent attention to detail - Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines You should also have experience using Claude and/or ChatGPT for research, analysis, and productivity. Experience working with real estate or home service businesses is a bonus, but not required. You should, however, be willing to learn unfamiliar industries and conduct the research necessary to understand each client's market. What We're Looking For We want someone who can take ownership of SEO projects rather than simply wait for individual tasks to be assigned. You should be able to look at a client, understand what they are trying to rank for, research the opportunities, determine what content needs to be created, brief our team, review their work, track backlink execution, and make sure the overall campaign stays organized and on schedule. You will be working with an existing team and established SOPs. We will teach you our specific processes, but you should already understand the fundamentals of SEO, Local SEO, AEO, and GEO. You should be organized, analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable doing research when you don't immediately know the answer. We are looking for someone interested in an ongoing role managing multiple client campaigns and becoming an important part of our SEO team. Generic ai responses or applicants who have not fully read the job description will not be considered.