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SEO Specialist resume example

SEO specialists are judged on organic traffic and the revenue or leads it brings. Show growth, rankings for valuable terms and the technical and content work behind it.

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SEO Specialist resume summary example

SEO specialist with 5 years growing organic search for e-commerce and SaaS. Took Alpine Gear’s organic revenue from $1.2M to $4.1M a year through technical fixes, category content and internal linking.

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Experience bullet examples for an SEO specialist

  • Grew organic revenue from $1.2M to $4.1M a year and organic sessions by 210%
  • Fixed crawl and indexing issues across 40,000 product pages; indexed pages rose 3×
  • Planned and briefed 150 category and buying-guide pages, 60 ranking in the top 3
  • Built Looker Studio dashboards tying rankings to revenue
  • Ran technical audits and keyword research for 20 clients
  • Recovered a client’s traffic after a core update by consolidating thin content

Each bullet starts with an action verb and ends with a result. That is what separates an achievement from a job description.

Skills for an SEO specialist resume

Technical SEOKeyword researchContent strategyInternal linkingGoogle Search ConsoleGA4Ahrefs / SemrushScreaming FrogSchema markupLooker Studio

Keywords that appear in SEO specialist job postings

Applicant tracking systems match your resume against the posting. These terms recur in real SEO specialist listings, use the ones that are true for you, in the posting’s own wording.

SEOtechnical SEOkeyword researchcontent strategyGoogle Search ConsoleGoogle AnalyticsAhrefslink buildingon-pageschemaorganic trafficreporting

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Tips for writing an SEO specialist resume

  1. Organic revenue or leads beat traffic alone.
  2. Show both technical and content wins.
  3. Name your tools, postings filter on them.

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What skills should I put on an SEO specialist resume?

List the specific skills the job posting asks for that you genuinely have. For SEO specialist roles, common ones include Technical SEO, Keyword research, Content strategy, Internal linking, Google Search Console, GA4, Ahrefs / Semrush, Screaming Frog.

How long should an SEO specialist resume be?

One page for most candidates. Two pages only if you have many years of directly relevant experience and every line earns its place.

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