Yesterday, Google posted a job listing on their careers site for an SEO position. I kid you not! Google is looking to hire an SEO to help them "drive organic traffic," as the job description says, to their Google Cloud Platform (GCP) marketing web pages.
This SEO will specifically work with the Google Cloud Platform Marketing team and the Cloud Web Development as the "Cloud SEO program manager."
As I documented at Search Engine Land the other day, here are the requirements:
The responsibilities include:
- Architect, design, develop and maintain innovative, engaging and informative sites for a worldwide audience.
- Maintain and develop the web code to ensure quality, content and readability by search engines.
- Keep pace with SEO, search engine and internet marketing industry trends and developments and report changes as needed.
- Advise, collaborate with, and synthesize feedback from Marketing, Product and Engineering partners to push for technical SEO best practices.
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience developing websites and applications with SQL, HTML5, and XML.
- 2 years of SEO experience.
- Experience with Google App Engine, Google Custom Search, Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics and experience creating and maintaining project schedules using project management systems.
- Experience working with back-end SEO elements such as .htaccess, robots.txt, metadata and site speed optimization to optimize website performance.
- Experience in quantifying marketing impact and SEO performance and strong understanding of technical SEO (sitemaps, crawl budget, canonicalization, etc.).
- Knowledge of one or more of the following: Java, C/C++, or Python.
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with the ability to dig extensively into metrics and analytics.
@ysekand was the first to notify me of this yesterday. Let me just share some of the funny reactions to this job posting from the SEO community:
@rustybrick @sengineland didn't the leaked FTC memo highlight how Google just hardcoded their own promotion even when they were embarrassed?
— aaron wall (@aaronwall) July 15, 2015@rustybrick @sengineland I thought at first this was from The @TheOnion .
— Jeffrey Enabe (@FutureBuffalo) July 15, 2015.@rustybrick <tinfoil>Google's is data mining ... There will soon be a "list" #muahahaha cc: @sengineland
— Eric Wu ( ･ㅂ･)و ̑̑ (@eywu) July 15, 2015@rustybrick @sengineland wonder if a Google rep told them considering the way search results look now, they should add budget to paid search
— daniel Vardi (@360vardi) July 15, 2015@ysekand @RichardShove @dannysullivan Isn't that just walk to the office next door and say, can you move the site up to page 1 please?
— Jason Eccles (@jasoneccles) July 15, 2015Here are some from Facebook:
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Forum discussion at Twitter.
