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LinkedIn →Hire SEO specialists
who report on the traffic and revenue they bring.
An SEO specialist helps your website get found in Google and AI search without paying for ads. You get a dedicated specialist, or a small team. They treat search as a source of revenue that grows over time, not a rankings chart to screenshot. We vet every specialist on real sites before they touch yours. They work inside your website system and team meetings, with your content and developer teams. You can scale monthly without hiring. You meet the person who would run the work before any contract is signed.
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What you get
Hiring an SEO specialist through PixelCrayons gets you a vetted technical, content and AI search expert inside your team. They make your site easy for search engines to read and plan content by topic. They earn links and add the structured data AI answers cite. A named coordinator supports them. You interview them first and scale monthly.
- Vetted on live websitesEvery specialist has run live SEO work under our standards before yours.
- Cover across work that runs for quartersA named coordinator, an escalation contact and a named second SEO specialist briefed on your work.
- Working inside your teamYour website system, your Slack and your team meetings, alongside your content and developer teams.
Our work
See what we've built
and the results it brought.
Real projects for real clients, with results we can show.
2004
Established
500+
Agencies served
4,500+
Projects delivered
340%
Revenue growth · 7 months
eCommerce
+127%
Organic traffic · 5 months
SaaS
85%
Faster delivery · backlog cleared
via agency partner
Where the work happens
Monthly rate for this hire
From $2,000per month, 160 hoursSenior specialists from $4,000, quoted per person.
Direct prices for brands and companies buying for themselves.
What they cover
What an SEO specialist covers
for your website.
This is not a link-building supplier who knows the word 'schema.' Their job is the whole search channel: what search engines find, what buyers find and what proves both.
Technical SEO
- Crawlability and indexation audits: log files, crawl budget, orphaned pages
- Core Web Vitals diagnosis and fixes, working alongside your dev team
- Structured data and schema markup across page templates
- Site architecture, internal linking and faceted-navigation control at scale
- Redirect plans so rankings survive a move to a new platform
Content and links
- Keyword research and topical mapping sequenced by commercial value
- Content briefs writers and editors can actually work from
- Digital-PR link earning, not directory submissions
- AI-search visibility: schema and entity consistency, answer-first structure for AEO/GEO
- Entity cleanup so machines describe your brand the same way everywhere
Planning and reporting
- Reports tied to organic traffic and revenue, not screenshots of ranking positions
- Working alongside your content and development teams, not around them
- Honest timelines: SEO results build over quarters, and we say so up front
- Choosing between quick technical wins and slower work to build authority
- Reports that agencies can drop straight into their own templates
In practice
What an SEO specialist
does while results build up.
Search results move slowly, so the work week to week is what you really judge.
The week behind the monthly report
Most weeks mix three kinds of work. First, technical checks. These cover Search Console coverage, crawl errors after a site update and templates that went live without schema. Second, content work. That means briefs for writers, updates to pages that are slipping and internal links that help new pages get found. Third, working with your teams. That might be a ticket telling your developers exactly what to change and why. Or it might be a note to the content team about a group of searches worth winning. The specialist also watches what AI answers say about your market. A page that is cited but never clicked needs a different fix.
How to judge a candidate
Ask them to talk through a traffic drop they diagnosed. A strong candidate can tell a tracking problem from an indexing problem or a real ranking loss. They explain how they worked out which it was. Ask how they would rank a list of technical issues against a queue of content work. Listen for business value, not the order an audit tool printed them in. Ask what they would never do to win a ranking. Be wary of anyone who leads with link counts or promises a position. Also be wary if they can't explain how your developers would get a fix live. Good candidates ask about your business before your rankings.
Where SEO hires get stuck
The usual cause is not the specialist. It is advice with nowhere to go. There is no developer time for technical fixes and no writer for the briefs. Nobody can approve changes to key pages. The audit gets written and the plan gets agreed. Months later, nothing has gone live. The other problem is measurement. If analytics are set up wrongly or conversions are not tracked, nobody can tell whether search is working. Before day one, agree who does what, how quickly and which numbers the work will be judged on. A specialist without developer time is writing a wish list.
Access, teamwork and the wrong fit
Have Search Console, analytics, your website system and a test site ready. Name a developer and a content contact. Share any past site moves, penalties or agency reports, even unflattering ones. Teamwork matters. The specialist writes what is needed, your developer makes the change and the specialist checks it in Google's index. Then check the fit. If you need paid search, that is a performance marketer. If you need lots of articles, you need writers, with SEO briefing them. And if a site move is weeks away, bring the specialist in before it, not after.
How it works
Brief to embedded,
interview before signing.
Start
Brief and a call
We sign an NDA and you describe the site, the stack and the gap.
Once the brief is complete
Proposal and interview
We confirm when your proposal arrives and propose the specialist whose delivery history fits. You interview the person who'd run your audit before anything is signed.
Your decision
You sign off
You confirm the scope, the payment and the access we need. Nothing starts before this.
Typically 2 to 3 business days later
The specialist starts
They get CMS and Search Console access, run a technical baseline and join your stand-ups with your content and dev teams.
Every month
Scale either way
Add a second specialist when the content roadmap or a migration demands it; step down once the programme settles. SEO capacity is reviewed monthly, so it changes without a headcount decision.
You make requests, give approvals and see the weekly review in your Prism workspace. Each decision is written down with the result it was meant to bring. See how Prism runs the work →
Get a Proposal
Meet the people who will do the work before you sign
Why through us
Why hire through us:
the SEO specialist and the reporting behind them.
An SEO specialist for hire on their own brings technical and content skills. Hire through a company that does this work every day and you also get careful reports on traffic and revenue. They keep work that runs for quarters written down.
Vetted on live websites
Every specialist in our team has run live SEO work before yours. That work ran under our own standards and was reviewed weekly. It was held to the reporting standard you will see. Anyone can talk about schema and topic maps in an interview. We would rather see a traffic chart and hear what really caused the change.
Cover across work that runs for quarters
You get a named coordinator, an escalation contact and a named second SEO specialist. The second specialist is briefed on your work from day one and follows the plan as it changes. If the first specialist takes leave or leaves, the second steps in without a slow start, even quarters in. A lone freelancer can't offer that. An in-house hire needs a whole team to cover it. You get a specialist and the reporting behind them.
Working inside your team
They use your website system, your Slack and your team meetings. They work alongside the content and developer teams you already have. Dedicated means working inside how you already publish and release. You don't hand a ticket queue to a stranger.
Honest reports you can check
A weekly review in Prism is tied to organic traffic and revenue. Technical fixes are logged as they go live. The plan says plainly when a result is still quarters away. We never borrow future results to make this month's slide look better.
Side by side
Hiring on your own,
compared with hiring through us.
A full-time in-house hire is worth it once search is a permanent, central job for you. We'll tell you plainly when it is. This page covers every other case.
| Hiring it yourself | Through PixelCrayons | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to a working specialist | A full hiring cycle: finding people, interviews, notice periods and onboarding | Eligible engagements can typically start within two to three business days after scope, payment and required access are confirmed |
| Vetting | A CV and an interview. The truth shows up once rankings move, or don't | A track record on real sites under our own standards, reviewed weekly |
| Management work | All yours: goals, reviews, career growth and leave cover | A named project manager and escalation path included. You review the traffic reports, not manage staff |
| Scaling | A full hiring cycle either way: months to find someone, an awkward exit to remove them | Change size monthly: add a specialist before a site move or content push, step down after |
| Risk when it doesn't work | A wrong hire costs search growth that builds over time and that you can't get back | If the fit is wrong, we propose someone else. The plan and technical audit pass to them at handover |
Who is accountable
The people responsible
for your work.
Saundaraya Gupta
Technical Manager
Brings technical work, client updates and project management together, so work moves smoothly from brief to launch.
LinkedIn →Every engagement
A named coordinator and escalation contact
Know who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue.
All engagements. Roles may be combined and vary with your engagement.
Before you sign
Our commitments
Each one says where it applies and links to its full terms.
14-Day Risk-Free Trial
For eligible managed specialists. Up to 14 calendar days or 80 logged working hours, whichever comes first. End within the trial and pay nothing for eligible trial hours. Continue beyond it and those hours are billed at the agreed rate. Unpaid trial work remains ours if you stop.
Eligible managed-specialist roles only, one trial per customer. Not offered for AI, chatbot, prompt, automation, API-integration or QA work. Brand and graphic designers, brand strategists, video editors, content writers, copywriters and content marketers start with a paid pilot.
Full termsTime-zone overlap
At least four hours a day inside your core working hours. Two hours plus a daily written handover for the US West Coast.
Managed specialists only; not a staffing promise for project teams.
Full termsClear IP & Ownership Terms
Your materials remain yours. Bespoke deliverable rights, licences and handover are agreed before work starts.
All engagements.
Full termsClear Delivery & Escalation Ownership
Know who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue.
All engagements. Roles may be combined and vary with your engagement.
Full termsWhy not just hire a freelancer?
A freelancer can be the right choice for a single, well-defined task. We are set up for work that needs an accountable team: a named coordinator, delivery reviewed by QA and a senior lead before release, and continuity arrangements written into the engagement. Confidentiality, ownership and escalation terms are agreed in writing before work starts.
How does time-zone overlap work?
Your engineers work at least four hours a day inside your core working hours. We set the window with you before the engagement starts and hold it for as long as the engagement runs. For the US West Coast the live overlap is two hours each morning, with a written handover at the end of every Indian day. We do not run night shifts: engineers who work nights leave quickly, and keeping the same people on your team matters more to us than a longer overlap.
Can we try you before we commit?
For eligible managed specialists, yes: up to 14 calendar days or 80 logged working hours, whichever comes first. Stop within it and eligible trial hours are free; continue and they're billed at the agreed rate. Unpaid trial work stays ours. Project work and other roles get a paid pilot with scope, acceptance criteria, duration and fee agreed first.
What if we want to stop?
Cancellation, notice and any renewal terms are written into your proposal or statement of work before you accept it. If an engagement ends early, we hand over completed, paid-for work and list any unfinished work separately. For an eligible specialist trial, you can stop within the trial window and pay nothing for eligible trial hours.
How we handle claims, credentials and your data: group credentials, dated ratings, how case figures are signed off, client permissions and data handling.
How we vet
How we vet an SEO specialist
and what to ask them.
The truth about an SEO hire shows once rankings move, or do not. Our vetting tests how they diagnose problems and rank work by business value. It also tests whether your developers really get the fixes live.
- 01Shortlist on past website resultsWe propose the specialist whose work on real sites fits your site, tools and gap. Their work is held to our own standards and reviewed weekly. On request, you can review real site results and audit work under NDA.
- 02Interview on a traffic dropAsk them to talk through one they diagnosed. A strong candidate can tell a tracking problem from an indexing problem or a real ranking loss. They explain how they worked it out. Good candidates ask about your business before your rankings.
- 03Test how they set priorities and limitsAsk how they would rank technical issues against content work. Listen for business value, not the order an audit tool gives. Ask what they would never do to win a ranking. Be wary of anyone who leads with link counts or promises a position.
- 04The trial starts with a technical checkIf you take the trial, it runs on a scope agreed before it starts. Expect a written technical and content starting point first. Fixes go to your developers as tickets that say exactly what to change and why.
Questions
Frequently
asked.
Once we have a complete brief, we confirm when your proposal arrives, and you interview the specialist before anything is signed. Eligible engagements can typically start two to three business days after scope, payment and required access are confirmed. Expect the first fortnight to go on a technical and content baseline before effort goes into new pages.
We won't give you a date; anyone who does is guessing. Technical fixes can show in Search Console within weeks, while new content typically takes a quarter or more to earn authority, and competitive terms longer. We commit to a documented roadmap, monthly movement you can see, and reporting that separates real progress from what's still compounding.
The NDA comes first, then CMS, Search Console and analytics access. The specialist runs a technical and content baseline and writes up what they found before the first month's priorities are agreed. They're in your stand-ups from week one, working alongside your existing content and development teams rather than around them.
Weekly and written, tied to organic traffic and revenue: what shipped, what moved and what's being tested, logged against the roadmap. Yes, every engagement includes the AI-search layer (schema, entity consistency, answer-first structure and crawler-access checks), so the work that earns rankings also earns AI Overview citations. Agencies get the reporting in their own templates.
One is the normal starting point: a single SEO specialist covers technical work, content strategy and reporting for most sites. A content writer or digital-PR specialist joins when scope justifies it, and the monthly resize works both ways. The proposal names who covers when the first specialist is away, and whether that's in the monthly rate.
Interview the person,
not the pitch deck.
Brief us on the site and the gap, and meet the actual specialist before anything is signed. If what you really need turns out to be an audit or a fixed-scope project rather than an ongoing specialist, we'll say so on the first call.
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