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Google Hiring an SEO Program Manager

33 points by hazbo 11y ago

BradRuderman 11y ago
Ironic!
alain94040 11y ago
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.
- joshmn 11y ago
  I see these issues too. To be completely fair, learning about proper hyphenation of compound adjectives was never on anyone's to-do list.
cloud36 11y ago
The ultimate SEO position if you're in that field haha.
programminggeek 11y ago
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.
jedberg 11y ago
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.
- eonw 11y ago
  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.
RandomHack61 11y ago
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mynegation 11y ago
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.
- ChuckMcM 11y ago
  Wow, I would not have come at it that way but it makes a lot of sense. I was guessing it was someone who would work the anti-spam team to identify "bad" SEO while promoting "good" SEO but I like your idea better.
BradRuderman 11y ago
I am not sure why Google would hire an SEO manager for their apps, they should just inflate their sites to the top anyways from the search team...it would be cheaper. However it is possible that they need an SEO manager to help them with other search engines beside's their own. Perhaps they are trying to capture additional marketshare (despite being obvious market leaders) from the smaller guys!

33 points by hazbo 11y ago

Ironic!

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.

joshmn 11y ago
I see these issues too. To be completely fair, learning about proper hyphenation of compound adjectives was never on anyone's to-do list.

cloud36 11y ago

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

programminggeek 11y ago

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.

jedberg 11y ago

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.

eonw 11y ago
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.

RandomHack61 11y ago

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mynegation 11y ago

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.

ChuckMcM 11y ago
Wow, I would not have come at it that way but it makes a lot of sense. I was guessing it was someone who would work the anti-spam team to identify "bad" SEO while promoting "good" SEO but I like your idea better.

BradRuderman 11y ago

I am not sure why Google would hire an SEO manager for their apps, they should just inflate their sites to the top anyways from the search team...it would be cheaper. However it is possible that they need an SEO manager to help them with other search engines beside's their own. Perhaps they are trying to capture additional marketshare (despite being obvious market leaders) from the smaller guys!