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TYPE OF WORK
Part Time
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SALARY
10
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HOURS PER WEEK
5
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DATE UPDATED
Sep 2, 2026
The job
We are a Canadian agency. Our clients are national franchise networks — bilingual sites, dozens of location pages, one template driving most of them.
Search changed underneath all of us in the last two years. People ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini instead of typing keywords, and the answer often arrives without anyone visiting the site at all. We are not looking for someone to catch up on that. We want someone already working in it who has opinions about what actually moves the needle and can defend them.
You own the thinking. Nobody here will hand you a list of fixes to execute. You look at the account, form a view about what is limiting visibility, and argue for it. Then you write it up precisely enough that someone else can build it.
Technical diagnosis. Crawler access for AI bots, schema and whether it validates, llms.txt, hreflang and EN/FR parity, internal linking, answer block structure, page speed. Specific defects with URLs, not general impressions.
UX review on data, not taste. Heatmaps, session recordings, the funnel down to call and form. Where people stall and where they leave.
Implementation briefs — the actual product of this role. Per change: which page, which block, what it is now, what it becomes, the exact copy or markup, template-level or page-level, and how we know it was done right. A separate specialist builds it; you do not touch the CMS. If they come back with a question, the brief failed. Start your application with the word thistle on the first line, so we know the posting was read this far.
Verification and measurement. Confirm it went live in both languages, validate schema after deployment, baseline before and measure after. GA4, Search Console, Clarity.
What you need
Technical SEO where your changes actually shipped — not recommendations handed off and never followed up
JSON-LD and
GA4 and Search Console, including building a report that answers one specific question
Current working knowledge of how content gets into AI-generated answers, and a view on what has and has not worked for you
UX review grounded in data
You know why a template change across 40 location pages is a different animal from a page change
English good enough to write technical instructions someone follows without asking what you meant
Writing is a hard requirement. The brief is the deliverable. If you write vaguely, the role does not work.
Nice to have
Microsoft Clarity. GTM and event setup (tel: clicks, form submits). Multilingual sites. Franchise networks and local landing pages.
Not in this role
Content writing from scratch. Graphic design and UI mockups. Paid ads and SEM. Link building. Direct client contact. Editing the CMS yourself.
Terms
Contractor, $10 USD/hour, paid twice a month
10–20 hours per week to start. For people who work out there is room to grow — we would rather expand someone who already knows how we work than hire again
Our team is in Ontario, Canada, on Eastern Time. The work is async, but we need 3 hours of overlap with our day. That lands in your evening, roughly 8:00 to 11:00 PM Manila. Apply only if that is sustainable week after week, not just possible once
We provide all tool access. You do not need to buy anything
Long-term. We are not hiring for one audit
How to apply
Subject line: the name of one AI-visibility tracking tool you have personally used, or the word none if you have not used any. Both are fine answers.
Then, in the body of your message:
Two live URLs you worked on, and the specific thing you changed on each. "Improved on-page SEO" tells us nothing. "Added FAQPage schema to 12 service pages and rewrote the H1 pattern in the template" tells us everything.
One recommendation of yours that got implemented — and what you did next. The number before, the number after, and what you concluded. If it did not move, say so and tell us what you made of that.
Have you seen an account where AI visibility held steady or grew while organic traffic fell? Tell us what you concluded and what you did about it. If you have not seen it, say so.
If you named a tool in the subject line: what is the one thing it cannot tell you reliably? Skip this if you wrote none.
Your availability in hours per week, and whether the evening overlap works for you.
GA4 / Search Console / Clarity, honestly: never used it, can pull a standard report, or can build a custom one.
Short answers are fine. Four specific sentences beat four paragraphs.
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