Hire an offshore SEO specialist for your agency
On-page, technical SEO, link building, and audits. Vetted for marketing agency work, placed in 21 days on average, and paid at cost with no markup on wages.
Free 30-minute call. Free replacement guarantee.
- Time to place
- 21 days on average
- Based in
- Philippines or Latin America
- Pay
- At cost. You set it.
- If it doesn't work out
- Free replacement
SEO retainers are won on strategy and lost on follow-through
The monthly work is what slips. Audits get half done, link outreach happens when someone has a free afternoon, and reports are built the night before the client call. An SEO specialist owns that recurring work, so your strategist can plan and your account managers have something to show.
Signs it's time to hire an SEO specialist
- Monthly deliverables are slipping past the date you promised clients
- Your strategist is doing keyword mapping and writing meta descriptions
- Link building only happens when someone has spare time
- Reports are assembled by hand the night before the call
- You're paying a white-label provider for work you can't see
What your SEO specialist takes off your plate
- Run technical and on-page audits and work through the fixes
- Do keyword research and map it to pages
- Optimize titles, content, and internal links
- Manage link building and local citations
- Build the monthly ranking and traffic reports
Every hire starts with our Delegation Blueprint, so the exact task list is built around your agency before we recruit.
Tools they work in
Who hires this role
What to look for in an SEO specialist
Junior
1–2 years
Follows your checklist: on-page updates, keyword research from a brief, citation building, and report assembly. Needs a documented process and someone reviewing the work.
Mid-level
3–5 years
Runs audits end to end, decides which fixes come first, carries the monthly work for a set of accounts, and explains results in plain language.
Senior
6+ years
Sets the approach for each account, handles migrations and harder technical problems, reviews junior work, and can explain what is happening to a client.
Where an SEO specialist fits in your agency
- Reports to
- Your SEO lead or head of delivery. In a smaller agency, you.
- What stays with you
- Strategy, and what you promise clients
- Pricing and scope
- The client relationship, unless you choose to hand over part of it
- What to measure
- Deliverables shipped on the date you promised
- Revisions needed per deliverable
- Accounts handled without your involvement
The first 90 days
Days 1–30
Learns your process on two or three accounts. Shadows first, then does the work with review.
Days 31–60
Owns the monthly deliverables for a first set of accounts. You review the output, not every step.
Days 61–90
Carries a full account load and brings you problems with a proposed fix attached.
Interview questions to ask an SEO specialist
You interview and choose who joins your team. These separate people who have done the work from people who can describe it.
- 01Walk me through the last audit you ran. What did you fix first, and why?
- 02A client's organic traffic dropped 30% last month. What do you check, and in what order?
- 03How do you decide which keywords a page should target?
- 04Show me a link you earned. How did you find the site, and what did you send?
- 05Which parts of SEO do you think are overrated?
- 06How would you explain a flat month to an account manager who has to tell the client?
The hire is one event. The system around it is the product.
Most firms hand you a hire and disappear. We stay. You get support as the owner, and your hire gets support of their own.
- Delegation Blueprint
- Before we recruit anyone, we map what to hand off first and turn it into a written role you approve.
- Client Success Manager
- One person who stays with you after the hire starts, not just until they do.
- VA Mentor
- Your hire has their own mentor, so you aren't the only one coaching them.
- Quarterly calls
- Every quarter we get on a call to see how the hire is working out and what to adjust.
What it costs, and what you're protected by
Paid at cost
You get one all-in price per hire: your hire's pay, at cost, plus one flat monthly fee from us. No percentage of wages and no hidden fees.
You set the pay
You set what your hire gets paid. We give you the benchmark.
The savings
Up to 70% savings in cost versus hiring the same role in the U.S.
Free replacement guarantee
If a hire doesn't work out, we replace them at no extra cost.
Questions we hear all the time
Can an offshore SEO specialist work across several client accounts?
Yes. That is the usual setup in an agency. How many depends on the size of each retainer and how much of the work is documented. We scope that with you in the Delegation Blueprint before we recruit.
Should my first SEO hire be a generalist or a specialist?
Usually a generalist who can handle on-page work, basic technical fixes, and reporting. Split out link building or technical SEO into its own seat once one of them has enough volume to fill a full week.
Will they use our tools or their own?
Yours. Your hire works inside your agency's accounts for tools like Ahrefs, Semrush, and Search Console, so the data and the history stay with you.
Can this role replace our white-label SEO provider?
That is one of the most common reasons agencies hire it. We help you bring fulfillment in-house without breaking what's already working.
How does pricing work?
You get one all-in price per hire: your hire's pay plus one flat monthly fee from us. No percentage of wages and no markup on what your hire is paid. Your hire is paid at cost, and there are no hidden fees. We walk through the exact numbers for your roles on a call.
What if a hire doesn't work out?
If a hire doesn't work out, we replace them at no extra cost.
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