SEO Performance Contractor (Performance Contract) - Remote

Organic traffic is the most durable customer acquisition channel a workforce strategy firm can own. The Wilkinson Firm has three sites with growing intent. We need an SEO performance contractor who can build the keyword strategy, audit and fix on-page, ship content briefs, track rankings, and translate traffic into pipeline. This is a performance role with a clear climb. Modest retainer at start. Real upside as the math compounds.

• Full SEO audit across the three TWF sites
• Keyword strategy by vertical: workforce strategy, behavioral health workforce, hospitality staffing, MBE professional services, government contracting workforce
• On-page optimization: title tags, meta descriptions, schema, internal linking
• Technical SEO: Core Web Vitals, crawl, sitemap, robots, structured data
• Content brief authorship for blog and resource hub pages
• Monthly ranking and traffic reporting
• Pipeline attribution: which organic visits convert to inbound conversations

Stage 1 (first 90 days, mission-aligned starter):

• $500/month retainer for 10 hours of strategic SEO work
• Traffic milestone bonus: $250 at 2x organic baseline by Day 90

Stage 2 (organic traffic 3x baseline + 5 keywords on page 1):

• $1,000/month retainer for 15 hours
• $500 milestone bonus per additional page-1 keyword
• 2% of organic-sourced revenue

Stage 3 (organic traffic 10x baseline + 20 keywords on page 1):

• $2,000/month retainer
• $1,000 milestone bonus per page-1 keyword
• 5% of organic-sourced revenue
• Senior advisor track opens

• 3-7 years B2B SEO experience
• Tool fluency: Ahrefs, SEMrush, Search Console, Screaming Frog, GA4
• Schema markup, structured data, technical SEO depth
• Content brief authorship - you can hand a writer a brief that ranks
• Documented traffic growth stories on prior client sites

Bonus: Vertical SEO depth in workforce, healthcare, professional services, or hospitality.

• SEO consultants whose only deliverable is a 100-page audit PDF
• Anyone who has never shipped content briefs that ranked
• Generalist digital marketers without dedicated SEO portfolio

• Main firm:
• HR Advisory practice: hr.
• Premium Hospitality + Event Staffing: hospitality.
• LinkedIn:

Email: Subject line: SEO Performance Contractor - Your Name

In your note, send:

1. Sites you have run SEO for (before/after traffic numbers)
2. Your tool stack
3. The first 5 keywords you would target for TWF in 30 days
4. Your weekly capacity

We respond within 48 hours. We do not ghost.