Google Hiring an SEO Program Manager

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Post by hazbo » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 1:54 PM UTC

Google Hiring an SEO Program Manager
google.com

Re: Google Hiring an SEO Program Manager

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Post by BradRuderman » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 2:39 PM UTC

Ironic!

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Post by alain94040 » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 2:47 PM UTC

Nitpick: 2 typos in one sentence: "From lightning fast IaaS to innovate container technology" should be "From lightning-fast IaaS to innovative container technology".

And yes, ironic.

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Post by cloud36 » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 2:54 PM UTC

The ultimate SEO position if you're in that field haha.

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Post by programminggeek » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 2:56 PM UTC

It makes sense. Believe it or not, a lot of the marketing and SEO opportunities are completely ignored on most projects. Google is a huge company. I doubt they are doing a good job with their own SEO on the smaller projects that aren't related to the search engine.

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Post by jedberg » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 2:58 PM UTC

It sounds awesome if SEO is your field, but at the same time I have to wonder how much you'd actually learn.

I imagine they would not tell this person much insider info, because then they would be far too dangerous when they left google.

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Post by RandomHack61 » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 2:58 PM UTC

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Post by mynegation » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 3:24 PM UTC

Everyone is like: haha that is funny, or evil, but think about it for a second

Consider large financial groups. Often they have both investment banking and wealth management divisions. Let's say IB is a primary dealmaker for country's oil industry. Why would WM division hire an analyst covering oil industry, combing through the public sources? They already have insider knowledge of the industry!

Oh wait...

Except that it is expressly illegal and finance is required by law to maintain "glass wall" between certain divisions and control the flow of information.

It is quite believable that Google would want to avoid accusations of unfair competition, self-regulate, and hire an SEO person for one of their non-search related businesses, like Nest or broadband, or carpool service, and maintain some degree of plausible deniability that it does not use insider information to compete with other non-search-related companies.

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Post by eonw » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 3:45 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #6

It sounds awesome if SEO is your field, but at the same time I have to wonder how much you'd actually learn. I imagine they would not tell this person much insider info, because then they would be far too dangerous when they left google.

most of the best SEOs i know, if not all, didnt have any insider knowledge but still managed to learn how to do their job and grow traffic. im not sure i would expect any insider knowledge or treatment in this position.

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Post by joshmn » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 4:18 PM UTC

alain94040 wrote: post #3

Nitpick: 2 typos in one sentence: "From lightning fast IaaS to innovate container technology" should be "From lightning-fast IaaS to innovative container technology". And yes, ironic.

I see these issues too. To be completely fair, learning about proper hyphenation of compound adjectives was never on anyone's to-do list.