SEO recruitment agency
Organic search is still the cheapest customer acquisition most businesses will ever own — if the person running it knows what they're doing. Cemoh matches Australian companies with vetted SEO specialists, shortlisted to your brief within 48 hours.
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Hiring an SEO specialist
An SEO recruitment agency finds and vets the people who grow your organic search traffic — technical specialists, content-led SEOs and the rare operators who do both. Cemoh checks real ranking outcomes before anyone enters our network, and shortlists to your brief in 48 hours.
SEO talent is unusually hard to assess from the outside, because results take months and credit is easy to claim. AI search results have raised the stakes again — Australian businesses now need specialists who understand how to stay visible when answers, not links, fill the page. That's precisely what our vetting screens for.
A few days a month of a genuine specialist often beats a cheap retainer. Common arrangements include a one-off technical audit and fix plan, ongoing part-time SEO ownership, or an embedded specialist working alongside your content team.
Typical day rate
$559–$1350 a day, averaging $853 — see the SEO Specialist rate guide
What a strong SEO specialist delivers
- A technical site health you stop worrying about
- Keyword strategy tied to commercial intent
- Content recommendations that actually rank
- Visibility in AI answers, not just blue links
- Reporting that links rankings to revenue
- + shaped to your brief
Flexible ways to hire an SEO specialist
Start with a freelance SEO specialist, scale to part-time, or recruit a permanent hire — whatever suits your team right now.
- Freelance Recruitment
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Whatever your needs are across the marketing spectrum – whether it be SEO, copywriting, videography, web development, graphic design, or something else – our marketing freelancers are up to the task.
✓ Project-based work
✓ Flexible arrangements
✓ Specialised skills
Get started - Part-Time Recruitment
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Our marketing experts can be hired on a part-time basis, helping you regularly with tasks or projects that demand a bit more time and consistency than a freelance gig but don't quite meet the need for full-time employment.
✓ Regular commitment
✓ Ongoing support
✓ Consistent availability
Get started - Full-Time Recruitment
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Is your marketing team growing, leading you to search for new talent? Recruiting a marketer on a full-time basis might be the solution, especially if you haven't been able to find the right candidate on your own.
✓ Dedicated resource
✓ Full-time commitment
✓ Team integration
Get started
Priced for speed and choice
The real value isn't the cheapest fee — it's a curated shortlist within 48 hours, drawn from Australia's largest pool of vetted marketers. Our pricing is simple and transparent.
Permanent placement
From 15% of first-year salary
For full-time hires. One transparent fee — your 48-hour shortlist of vetted candidates is included. Executive search and hard-to-fill roles may be higher.
Freelance & part-time
No placement fee
Engage a vetted marketer by the hour, day or project — you simply pay their rate. See our rate guide for typical market pricing.
No lock-in either way — start with a freelancer and move to a permanent hire only when it's working.
Featured SEO specialists
A sample of the vetted SEO specialists available through Cemoh.
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Maddison Ryan
SEO Specialist
Grow your traffic x2 and increase sales with SEO
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Grant Hilton
SEO Specialist
SEO Specialist with 25+ Years’ Experience Driving Organic Growth for Businesses
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Amit Kumar
SEO Specialist
SEO specialist with expertise in Website Audits & Strategy. Highly versed with Onpage, Technical, Internal Linking, Content Planning & Link Building.
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Shounak Gupte
SEO Specialist
Shounak is a well-rounded Digital Marketing expert who is passionate about web technologies and the search industry.
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Rashmi Batham
SEO Specialist
Experienced SEO & Paid Marketing Specialist with a Passion for Driving Online Growth
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Justine Mcnamara
SEO Specialist
Let me improve your website with SEO!
Why choose Cemoh for SEO specialist recruitment?
Australia's largest vetted talent pool
No one in Australia has a bigger pool of vetted marketers. Choose from 779+ experts — SEO specialists included — each screened by senior marketers before they join, so you get a genuine choice of SEO specialists, not whoever happens to be available.
We Know Marketing
Our team has decades of marketing experience. We are marketers ourselves, so we know exactly what a strong SEO specialist looks like — and how to match one to your business.
Flexible Hiring
No long-term contracts. Hire an SEO specialist full-time, part-time or on a project basis — and scale up or down as your business needs change.
Cost-Effective
Skip the agency markup. Get direct access to senior SEO specialists at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire or traditional recruiter.
How much does an SEO specialist cost?Rated 5.0 out of 5 by our clients
"Introduced my company to a fantastic SEO solution that was much better value for money than my previous agency."
Farrah Motley
Prosper Law
"Cemoh does things differently. Good differently. We talked to a number of businesses, and Cemoh stood out from the crowd."
"SEO has never been a strong point for us. As a small business it's important to get the right guidance for growing long term. Extremely helpful and knows his stuff — definitely recommend."
How Cemoh compares to a traditional digital recruitment agency
Same goal — the right marketer in your business. A very different way of getting there.
| Comparison area | Cemoh | Traditional agency |
|---|---|---|
| Choice of talent | Australia's largest pool of vetted marketers — 779+ to choose from | Limited to whoever they can source for the brief |
| Speed | Curated shortlist within 48 hours | Weeks of searching, advertising and screening |
| Ways to engage | Freelance, part-time or permanent — switch as needs change | Usually permanent placements only |
| Who does the vetting | Senior marketers — we vet on craft, not keywords | Generalist recruiters screening résumés |
| Marketing expertise | Run by marketers who know what good looks like | Recruiters, not marketers |
| Commitment | No lock-in — scale up or down whenever you need | Large upfront placement fee for a fixed, permanent hire |
Frequently asked questions about SEO specialist recruitment
Answers to common questions about hiring SEO specialists through Cemoh.
Do I need a technical SEO or a content SEO?
Run a quick diagnostic: if your site has crawl errors, slow pages or a messy migration in its past, start technical. If the site is sound but you're invisible for the searches that matter, start content. Many briefs need a technical audit first and content execution second — we can structure the engagement that way with one specialist or two.
Is hiring an SEO specialist better than an agency retainer?
For many businesses, yes. A mid-tier agency retainer often buys you a junior executing a template; the same budget secures a senior independent specialist whose attention isn't split across forty accounts. Agencies still make sense at large scale or when you need many hands — we'll tell you straight which side of that line your brief falls on.
How does Cemoh vet SEO specialists when results are so easy to fake?
We ask for the receipts: analytics access or exports showing traffic growth they can explain change by change, not screenshots of vanity rankings. Candidates also talk us through a failure — what they tried, what didn't move and why. Anyone who can't do both convincingly doesn't make it into the network.
How much does it cost to hire an SEO specialist?
Freelance SEO specialists on Cemoh typically charge between $559 and $1,350 a day, averaging around $853 — see our SEO Specialist rate guide for the live figures. For permanent placements, our recruitment fee generally starts at around 15% of the candidate's first-year salary.
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Need a different specialist? Explore our dedicated recruitment pages for every marketing role.
Get a curated shortlist of SEO specialists in 48 hours
Tell us what you need and our team will hand-pick a shortlist of vetted SEO specialists, usually within 48 hours.
- Australia's largest pool of vetted marketers
- A hand-picked shortlist within 48 hours
- Freelance, part-time or permanent — no lock-in
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