WordPress + Elementor Developer with Real Local SEO Skill — Ongoing Work, US Marketing Agency

We're a US marketing agency serving home-service businesses — restoration, remodeling, contractors. We build websites and run monthly SEO for our clients, and we're growing faster than our current delivery capacity. We're looking for one person who can own a website from design through ranking. Not a builder who hands off to an SEO. Not an SEO who can't touch code. One person who does both, well. Start: one website build and one SEO account. If the work is strong, this becomes steady ongoing volume — and for the right person, a full-time role on our team. We would much rather find one person and keep them busy than rotate through freelancers. What you'd do Website builds — the sequence Design the site in Lovable from our brief and the client's brand Submit the design to us for approval before any build work starts — no exceptions Once approved, build it in WordPress with Elementor on our hosting Full technical setup: Google Tag Manager, GA4, call tracking, LocalBusiness/Service schema, forms wired to our CRM Performance work — we hold a mobile PageSpeed score of 85+ as a pass/fail standard Typical timeline: 7 business days from kickoff to live for an 8–12 page site, including the design approval round. SEO Technical audits that prioritize by revenue impact, not by raw error count Keyword and market research (we have Semrush; we'll buy Ahrefs or any other tool you need) On-page optimization, service and location page architecture, internal linking Google Business Profile optimization and local map pack work Citations, NAP consistency, and link acquisition to the standard below Monthly reporting that connects rankings to actual phone calls and form fills Our link standard — read this before applying Every link you build gets proposed to us in writing first, with the URL and the reason, and gets built only after we approve it. No exceptions. We do not buy link packages. No PBNs, no link farms, no blog networks, no directory blasts, no comment or forum placements, no "500 backlinks, guaranteed DA 50." We have seen what that does to a site and we are not interested in renting a ranking that gets clawed back with penalties attached. What we do want: chambers of commerce, BBB, industry associations, supplier and partner pages, local sponsorships and news, legitimate service directories, real citation work with consistent NAP, and genuine placements on real sites with real editorial standards. Anchor text stays mostly brand and natural — exact-match is the exception, not the pattern. Ten real links beat five hundred junk ones. If your process depends on volume link buying, we're not a fit. What we need you to know going in All work happens inside our infrastructure — our Lovable, our Cloudways hosting, our WordPress, our Elementor license, our Search Console, our GA4, our Semrush, our domains. You'll get user-level access to everything you need. We don't build on contractor-owned staging, we don't use agency-proprietary themes or frameworks, and everything you produce is ours. If that's a dealbreaker for how you work, we're not the right fit and that's fine. What we're looking for 3+ years building WordPress sites in Elementor, with live URLs you can show us Demonstrated local SEO results — we want to see a site you ranked, and the Search Console or analytics data behind it Comfortable working from written direction with minimal hand-holding Communicates proactively. If something slips, you tell us before we ask. Strong written English, 4+ hours overlap with US Central time How this hire works We move fast. We'll review applications within 24 hours, do a short 20-minute call with our shortlist, and then pay two candidates full rate for the same small real project. Whoever produces the better work gets the ongoing relationship. Everyone gets paid for their time — we don't ask for free work or spec builds. If you're looking for a long-term client who pays on time, gives clear direction, and has more work than they can handle — apply.