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I need SEO career advice
Posted by on January 31, 2026 at 4:09 pmI've had some experience working as a junior SEO specialist but lately I've been interested in local SEO and I wanted to change my career to focus on applying for that role specifically, since I can only find a couple of open positions I thought I'd reach out myself to agencies through cold outreach, I do already have knowledge about local SEO as I have provided audits before and also I have a local client who I've been managing their GBP and achieved great results for them and have a case study about (they are ranking in the local pack) and I'm currently trying to get at least another client to work on the website's local SEO in order to grow my experience.
TLDR, Has anyone had success cold-emailing SEO agencies with an open application? If so, what actually worked? and what advice would you give me to increase the chances of being considered?”
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Before you answer – these activities are a waste of time:
1. Internal linking from pages with no tarffic
2. Navigation and footer links – links must be in body
3. On a low auth site -more than 1 link is going to neutralize itselfIn terms of backlinks – while you can and should build these – you need to didscount them from SEO:
1. Any and all social media
2. Almost all PR
3. Any links from pages that have organic traffic
4. Profile and bookmark sitesWhile you can debate crawling and context – you need authority.
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Are you a junior or a specialist? One can’t be the other.
Why not build something on your own? Doing that is the best learning curve.
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