Senior Technical SEO & AEO Manager

The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein, P.C. is seeking an experienced Senior Technical SEO & AEO Manager to lead our website's technical performance, organic search strategy, and visibility across traditional and AI-powered search platforms. Our website is built on WordPress, hosted on AWS, and utilizes Cloudflare for performance and security. We are looking for a strategic, technically skilled professional who can independently audit, optimize, and improve our website. This is a hands-on role. The ideal candidate must be able to identify technical issues, develop solutions, and personally implement improvements—not simply provide recommendations to outside developers or agencies. Key Responsibilities Technical SEO & Website Development - Conduct comprehensive technical SEO audits and independently implement fixes and improvements. - Manage and optimize our WordPress website, including themes, plugins, templates, and site functionality. - Troubleshoot technical issues involving WordPress, AWS hosting, Cloudflare, caching, and website performance. - Improve Core Web Vitals, page speed, mobile usability, crawlability, and indexing. - Resolve broken links, redirects, duplicate content, canonicalization issues, structured data errors, and technical SEO issues. - Maintain website health and coordinate secure updates, testing, and deployments. SEO, AI Search & AEO/GEO Strategy - Develop and execute a comprehensive organic search strategy across our immigration and personal injury practice areas. - Lead Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) initiatives to improve visibility across Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, and emerging AI-powered search platforms - Identify high-value conversational search queries and legal questions that present opportunities for AI-generated answers, citations, and traditional organic traffic. - Develop strategies to strengthen the firm's topical authority, attorney expertise, credibility, and online presence. Content Strategy & Website Optimization - Conduct keyword research, competitor analysis, and content gap assessments to identify organic growth opportunities. - Recommend new practice-area pages, landing pages, FAQs, articles, and educational resources based on search demand and business value. - Perform comprehensive website content audits and identify pages to update, consolidate, redirect, restructure, or remove. - Improve website navigation, URL hierarchy, internal linking, and overall content organization. - Collaborate with the marketing and legal teams to develop authoritative, accurate, search-optimized content. - Identify opportunities to repurpose existing video and educational content to increase organic visibility. Required Qualifications - 5–8+ years of professional SEO experience, including advanced technical SEO expertise. - 3+ years of hands-on WordPress development experience, with demonstrated ability to independently implement technical changes. - Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and WordPress architecture. - Experience with AWS hosting environments and Cloudflare, including caching, performance optimization, CDN configuration, and troubleshooting. - Advanced knowledge of crawling, indexing, structured data, site architecture, Core Web Vitals, and technical SEO best practices. - Experience with content strategy, keyword research, competitor analysis, and large-scale website optimization. - Proven ability to independently manage technical projects from diagnosis through implementation, testing, and performance evaluation.