Practical guide to presenting Search Engine Optimization, content strategy, and technical search auditing on your resume.
Standard Placement Tip:
List SEO under 'Digital Marketing Tools' or 'Core Competencies'. Break it down into sub-keywords like: Technical SEO, Keyword Research, On-Page SEO, and Link Building.
Paste your resume skills section or work history below to see which keywords are present and which ones are missing.
Strong resume bullets require an action verb, description of what you did, and a quantified metric. Avoid responsibilities list; show results.
Weak: Wrote articles to get Google traffic.
Strong: Executed an SEO content strategy targeting 45 core keywords, increasing monthly organic traffic from 5,000 to 22,000 visits over 6 months.
Conducted an audit on a 150-page web app, fixing broken links, canonical structures, and improving page performance speed to resolve LCP issues.
List Google Search Console (GSC), Google Analytics (GA4), Ahrefs, Semrush, Screaming Frog, or Yoast/RankMath depending on what you used.