Join our career day community call
Our April 17 community call is all about career development — think of it as a news SEO career day!
Hello WTF is SEO? community!
Mark your calendars! We are thrilled to invite you to a special community call hosted by your pals, Jessie & Shelby from WTF is SEO?. For this edition of our community call, we are focusing on career development — think of it as a news SEO career day!
Maybe your resume is a mix of news writing and editing alongside audience work, but all you really want to do is news SEO. Or maybe your entire professional life is content for search audiences — but technical SEO is your passion. Maybe you’re just trying to get in the door to audience work — or maybe journalism, period. This call is for you.
Both Jessie and Shelby have long and winding career paths, ultimately landing in news SEO as it blends the hard-earned skills of all our previous roles. They will guide a lively conversation about learning and leveling up on the job, opening up the floor for our community to provide advice and lessons.
Here are the details for the community call:
Date: April 17, 2024
Time: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET/4 p.m. to 5 p.m. GMT
Timezone: America/Toronto
Google Meet joining info:
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/gvv-ujuf-tmg
Or dial: (CA) +1 226-315-3948
PIN: 822 193 292#
📌 Add this event to your Google calendar.
Get ready for an hour of engaging conversation with like-minded professionals in the news SEO industry.
Here’s what we’ll cover:
Essential SEO skills: What are the skills every news SEO needs to have? We’ll discuss the core skills managers in every newsroom will expect of you — and how to develop that expertise.
Leveling up: What courses, resources or mentors have helped others become better at their jobs?
Important soft skills: Just as important as knowing your way around Google Search Console is knowing how to get buy-in from your colleagues and leadership. We’ll discuss proven ways to get others on your side, and how to mitigate the challenges that come with these roles.
And so much more! Bring your insights, experiences and questions. This is an open dialogue for you, our news SEO community, to speak freely about the challenges we face in the newsroom and journalism more broadly.
ALSO!
We’re thrilled to share that Trisolute News Dashboard, a widely used tool in the news SEO community, is our presenting sponsor for the call!
The Trisolute News Dashboard is THE best-in-class, award-winning news SEO tool serving online news publishers since 2012. We demystify the news SEO universe and increase publishers’ visibility with near-real time data and actionable insights while helping to build search authority on Google News, SERPs and Discover.
Please reply directly to this email if you have any questions you want answered during the call. We’re keen to make this as interactive and useful as possible.
Your pals in news SEO,
Jessie and Shelby
Recommended reading before the call
Have something you’d like us to discuss? Send us a note on Twitter (Jessie or Shelby) or to our email: seoforjournalism@gmail.com.
Written by Jessie Willms and Shelby Blackley