Technical SEO Lead

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🇲🇹 Malta – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📈 SEO Marketing

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iGaming IDOL

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2016

🎮 Gaming

📱 Media

🤝 B2B

Gaming • Media • B2B

iGaming IDOL is a premium awards event and media project that recognizes individual excellence and innovation within the iGaming (online gambling) industry. Hosted in Malta and produced by NEXT. io, it runs gala award ceremonies, industry-focused summits, podcasts, and related content, with audited judging, sponsorships, and charitable initiatives. The project targets iGaming professionals, companies, and investors, emphasizing talent recognition, industry networking, and media coverage.

📋 Description

• Own the technical SEO of every NEXT.io site • Report to the Web Master and collaborate with the full-stack developer and editorial team • Help define SEO across the shared platform from the start • Audit next.io and NEXTPredict, prioritize findings by impact, and implement or brief fixes • Set platform-wide SEO defaults for templates, schema, sitemaps, canonicals, archives, and tag pages • Plan international SEO for Spanish and Portuguese editions, including hreflang, URL structure, indexing, and existing English URLs • Optimize news content for Google News and Top Stories • Implement correct NewsArticle schema and manage freshness and updates • Maintain healthy Core Web Vitals using Cloudflare caching and edge optimization • Diagnose whether page-speed issues are caused by code, plugins, or settings • Own GA4, GTM, consent mode v2, and Search Console • Ensure ticket clicks, form submissions, and sponsor links are accurately tracked • Build decision-useful reports in Looker Studio • Improve E-E-A-T and link earning in the regulated iGaming YMYL niche • Track brand visibility in AI Overviews and LLM answers and identify improvement opportunities

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years in technical SEO, ideally on content-heavy or publishing sites • Solid understanding of crawling and indexing • Knowledge of when to use 301 redirects, 302 redirects, canonicals, and 410 responses • Understanding that blocking a page in robots.txt does not keep it out of the index • Hands-on WordPress experience beyond installing plugins • Comfortable with Yoast settings, theme templates, and functions.php • Ability to add JSON-LD through a hook if needed • Ability to read HTML and HTTP responses • Experience using Chrome DevTools • Experience setting up GA4 and GTM and verifying that tags fire correctly • Regular use of Screaming Frog, Search Console, Ahrefs or SEMrush, and PageSpeed Insights • Log file analysis is a plus • Demonstrable examples of SEO results, including changes made, measurement methods, and outcomes • Clear written English • Experience in iGaming, betting, crypto, or news publishing is a plus • Experience with multilingual sites is a plus • Familiarity with Cloudflare caching rules and edge features affecting rendering is a plus • Experience with WordPress block themes (Full Site Editing) is a plus • Comfort with Git and staging-to-live workflows is a plus • Experience handling SEO for several sites sharing one codebase is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours • Remote-friendly environment built on trust and ownership • Autonomy and freedom to challenge the status quo • Exciting projects and opportunities to make an impact • Collaborative environment with supportive colleagues • Continuous learning and professional development opportunities • NEXT Academy and other professional development initiatives • Additional benefits varying depending on location

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