SEO Executive/Manager

This new SEO role will be responsible for helping grow SEO traffic to Time Out’s Media business by providing expert guidance to editorial teams across the business. They will also build an SEO focussed content calendar and provide monthly forward planning recommendations to editors in order to maximise traffic for seasonal events, alongside optimising evergreen pages and providing ad-hoc keyword research and optimisation tips to global teams.

Key Responsibilities

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  Be the go-to person for editors seeking SEO content optimization advice.
  
• Provide monthly forward planning recommendations and content optimization opportunities for SEO to each individual editor/team with insight into what content to update or create and when, in order to maximise search traffic around known upcoming events.
  
• Provide regular topic research around relevant keywords to inform editors of new content opportunities.
  
• Recommend relevant keywords and keyword combinations to Editors to target on upcoming articles.
  
• Optimise/update & refresh top SEO landing pages for relevant keywords to maximise SEO traffic as well as building out topic pages.
  
• Monitor daily content output for best practice, such as relevant linking and keyword usage, and either editing themselves or feeding back to editors on optimisation opportunities.
  
• Be linking top evergreen traffic pages to other more recent articles to encourage circulation and ensure relevant cross linking
  
• Ensure articles and pages are correctly tagged and/or complete metadata on topics and articles

Skills & Experience

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  Excellent written English with additional languages a plus.
  
• Editorial & digital publishing experience.
  
• Strong understanding of the principles of SEO optimisation and topic research.
  
• Familiarity with SEO tools and web analytics platforms.
  
• Experience with CMS platforms within a publishing/media business.

Interested in applying but don’t tick all the boxes on the list? Please apply, we’d still love to hear from you.

What we look for in a candidate

Time Out is a company filled with individuals as diverse as the cities we live in and cover. At the same time there are common characteristics and values we all share. To join our team, you’ll want to…

• Be commercially astute
• Either have experience at or want to dive headfirst into a fast-paced digital-first company
• Think globally
• Have excellent communication and relationship building skills
• Have a high sense of ownership, urgency and drive
• Be a team player

About Our Culture

At Time Out Group we believe in diversity and equal opportunity for all people. We do not discriminate against external or internal candidates on the basis of age; disability; gender, gender reassignment; race; religion or belief; sexual orientation; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity. We believe that diversity develops creativity and enables personal and professional growth where we all learn from each other. We believe in an open culture where ideas are shared candidly and where there is no fear of failure, but rather an understanding that we must experiment and have the freedom to succeed. We believe that everyone has the right to express themselves as they are as this enriches us all. We believe in an open world, social justice, and the pursuit of happiness, after all, we are in the happiness business.

As our cities have reopened, we have embraced a hybrid way of working that gives us the opportunity to work remotely, as well as from the office; offering the flexibility that brings many benefits to our lives, as well as still providing a space where we can connect and collaborate as part of our Time Out community.