SEO Link Building and Outreach Specialist for Photography Businesses

Part Time | 10 Hours Per Week | $5 Per Hour

We are looking for an experienced Link Building and Outreach Specialist to help grow two established photography websites:

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We specialize in professional headshots, corporate photography, corporate events, weddings, engagements, and proposals throughout New Jersey, New York City, and the surrounding areas.

We have more than 30 years of experience, have photographed over 15,000 headshots and hundreds of weddings, and have earned more than 650 five-star Google reviews.

We already have a strong content foundation. We are now looking for someone to help us earn legitimate, relevant backlinks that strengthen our authority and support increased rankings, traffic, and inquiries.

This is not a general SEO position. Your primary responsibility will be researching opportunities, writing personalized outreach, following up, building relationships, and earning high-quality backlinks.

Why This Opportunity Is Different

You will not be starting with a random list of cold prospects.

We have photographed weddings at venues throughout New Jersey and New York and have worked with many wedding planners, florists, vendors, companies, and organizations.

You will receive information about the venues and businesses we have worked with so you can identify legitimate, relationship-based opportunities. Venue and vendor opportunities will be our initial priority before expanding into broader publication, resource-page, professional-organization, and digital PR outreach.

Existing clients and sensitive business relationships may only be contacted after receiving our approval.

Responsibilities

• Research relevant and legitimate backlink opportunities

• Identify appropriate venues, vendors, publications, resource pages, directories, professional organizations, local businesses, and industry partners

• Find accurate contact information for website owners, marketing managers, editors, writers, wedding venues, planners, companies, and organizations

• Determine the most appropriate page on our website to promote for each opportunity

• Write personalized outreach emails that do not feel automated or spammy

• Submit outreach messages for approval when required

• Follow up consistently and professionally

• Pitch our existing articles, photography guides, location guides, images, and other useful resources

• Find opportunities involving wedding websites, venues, acting resources, medical schools, corporate organizations, and New Jersey or New York publications

• Maintain a detailed tracking sheet showing every opportunity, contact, message, response, follow-up, outcome, and earned backlink

• Coordinate with our existing SEO strategy so backlinks support the pages and topics we are actively trying to improve

• Provide a clear weekly progress report

How We Measure Success

We will evaluate:

• Qualified and relevant opportunities identified

• Personalized outreach completed

• Outreach response rate

• Positive conversations and relationships developed

• Relevant referring domains earned

• Quality, relevance, and legitimacy of each backlink

• Accuracy and organization of the tracking system

Venue, vendor, corporate, and publication opportunities will be tracked separately.

We will review progress together after 30, 60, and 90 days. We care more about quality and relevance than the raw number of backlinks.

What We Provide

• Information about venues, vendors, clients, and organizations we have worked with

• A prioritized list of pages and topics we want to strengthen

• Access to company-approved tools needed to perform the work

• A dedicated company outreach email address with reasonable sending limits

• Approved outreach guidelines and messaging

• Direct access to us for questions and approvals

Requirements

• Proven experience earning backlinks through genuine outreach

• Strong written English

• Excellent research skills

• Experience evaluating website quality, relevance, authority, traffic, and spam risk

• Ability to recognize the difference between a legitimate website and one created primarily to sell backlinks

• Ability to write personalized messages instead of sending the same generic email to everyone

• Familiarity with tools such as Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz, Hunter, BuzzStream, Pitchbox, or similar platforms is helpful

• Reliable communication and strong attention to detail

• Ability to follow instructions and explain why each opportunity would benefit our business

We Are Not Interested In

• Private blog networks or PBNs

• Link farms

• Bulk backlink packages

• Automated backlink creation

• Spammy or irrelevant directories

• Blog comment or forum-profile backlinks

• Websites created primarily to sell guest posts

• Backlinks purchased primarily to manipulate search rankings

• Paid guest-post networks

• Placement fees incurred without our approval

• Excessive link exchanges

• Hundreds of generic emails sent without properly researching and personalizing each opportunity

How to Apply

Please answer every question below:

1. Provide three live backlinks that you personally helped earn through outreach.

2. For each backlink, explain your exact role, how the opportunity was found, how the outreach was handled, and whether any money, product, service, or reciprocal link was exchanged.

3. What types of websites would you approach for our photography businesses?

4. How do you determine whether a website is legitimate, relevant, and safe?

5. What warning signs would cause you to reject a backlink opportunity?

6. What tools do you use for backlink research, prospecting, contact research, outreach, and tracking?

7. Have you worked with a local service business before? If so, please provide examples.

8. What would your plan be during your first 30 days?

9. How many hours per week are you available, and when can you begin?

10. Include a short video, no longer than two minutes, introducing yourself and explaining your backlink outreach process.

Please begin your application with the words “Candid Photography” so we know you read the complete posting.

Applications that do not answer the questions will not be considered.

Hours and Compensation

This position will begin at approximately 10 hours per week.

The starting rate is $5 per hour.

Selected applicants will be invited to complete a short paid test. The test will involve researching a small number of relevant backlink opportunities, explaining why each one is appropriate, finding the correct contacts, and creating sample outreach messages.

You will not be asked to perform unpaid work or obtain an actual backlink during the test.

There is an opportunity for additional hours and a long-term position if you consistently identify strong opportunities, produce high-quality personalized outreach, communicate reliably, and keep accurate records.