GetSmarter 2017 SEO Internship Opportunity
We are looking for an SEO intern to work within our SEO Team. The successful candidate will assist us in optimising our website and improving our organic visibility within search engines. This will help us improve the volume and quality of traffic from natural search referrals.
At GetSmarter, we improve lives through better education – whether it’s our own, a colleague’s or a customer’s. It’s this purpose that unites us as a team. Our team of over 300 in-house rockstar employees and 88 industry experts has successfully changed the lives of over 50,000 customers to date. This is what makes us the premium providers of continuing education in South Africa.
The role will extend across all facets of search engine optimisation and includes assisting with keyword research, monitoring traffic, assessing how well search engines can find and index our website, as well as generating reports for the Head of SEO.
This role exists to:
- Enable regular health checks are done to helps us understand the status of our accessibility by search bots on a weekly and monthly basis
- Collect data that will help us understand our ranking positions across search engines and localities
- Do monthly reporting on organic traffic and ranking growth
- Develop SEO skills that will continue to benefit the team
- Support as an administration function
- Support in production/ preparation of basic tasks to be executed on by SEO team
Key responsibilities
- Weekly and Monthly Health Checks
- Policing Google and Bing Webmaster tools
- Briefing in issues (where possible) as they’re identified and following them through to completion
- Actively learning about and advancing your knowledge on SEO
- Supporting in admin
- Data collection for strategy session preparation
- Data collection for content Briefs
- Monthly and Weekly Reporting
- Support on outreach projects
Experience, aptitude and attitude:
- Basic understanding of SEO
- Basic understanding of Digital Marketing
- Must be flexible and adaptable
- Strong analytical skills
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong collaborator who operates in the best interests of the team, and isn’t averse to getting one’s hands dirty when necessary
- Can work as part of a team as well as independently
- Self-starter and voracious learner who is organised
- Not afraid of change – can work in an agile manner
- Be able to work with diverse teams and personalities
- Excellent attention to detail
Job specific competencies
- Exceptional computer literacy
- Mid-level excel skills
- Basic numerical and analytical skills
- Ability to work in MS Office
- Must be articulate, professional and have a good command of both spoken and written English
If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.