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Start from the block rather than the title: whether Google cannot crawl you properly, whether you rank for nothing you publish, or whether competitors simply have more authority. Mira AI drafts the job description and a scorecard from that, the role reaches our candidate community, and every applicant is ranked as they arrive. You run a live teardown of your own site with the shortlist and Wisemonk employs whoever you choose.

SEO prices below engineering and above general marketing at the same level. Executives and analysts sit at the accessible end, specialists who can prove growth cost meaningfully more, and technical SEO people with real engineering fluency are the scarcest and priciest of the group. Heads of SEO are benchmarked against marketing leadership. List the role and we will check your band against live India payroll data.

Agencies are good for breadth and for getting started quickly. In-house wins on everything that compounds, because an employed specialist learns your product, sits in the engineering standup and gets fixes merged rather than recommended. The common mature setup is one strong in-house owner with agency or freelance support for spikes in link building and content production.

Yes, and much of the world's SEO delivery has run from India for over a decade. Two things are worth probing in interview: whether their results came in markets as competitive as yours, and how well they know the search behaviour and language of your buyers rather than the tactics in general. Digital PR and outreach are the areas where local market familiarity matters most, so ask specifically about that.

Technical SEO makes sure search engines can reach, render and understand your pages. Content SEO makes sure the pages deserve to rank once they do. They are genuinely different skill sets: one sits close to engineering and the other close to writing and research. Larger teams hire both, and smaller ones should be honest about which is actually blocking them.

Technical fixes can move things within weeks, especially when indexation is the problem. Content and authority work runs on a longer clock, commonly three to six months before the trend is unmistakable and longer in competitive markets. What you should see inside the first month is a diagnosis you find convincing and tickets moving through your engineering backlog.

The work still matters and the measurement is changing. Answer engines and AI overviews cite sources, and the pages they cite are largely the ones that already rank, so the fundamentals of crawlability, clear structure and genuine authority are unchanged. What is different is that clicks no longer track impressions the way they used to, so hire somebody who tracks visibility as well as sessions and can explain the gap.

No. Wisemonk is the legal employer, signs the contract, and runs payroll with provident fund, gratuity, ESI and tax withholding included. The specialist works to your roadmap and reports into your marketing team. If you already operate an Indian entity, the hire can go on that instead.

Give them your own site and half an hour. Ask what they would do first, what they would deliberately not do, and why. Then ask about a project that failed and what they concluded from it. Candidates who can only talk about best practice in general terms tend to produce audits; candidates who argue about your particular site tend to produce growth.

Roughly six to nine years, and the marker is a roadmap with a number attached rather than a list of fixes. A senior SEO forecasts what a project is worth before starting it, tells you which rankings are not worth chasing, and has the credibility to get technical work prioritised by engineering. Notice periods at this level run 60 to 90 days.