David Retief Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

65 Bofors Circle, Epping Industria, Cape Town, South Africa

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Do linkbuilding to improve search rankings and authority. These will include doing outreaches and getting the website listed on various booking, tourism and travel sites.Do a complete site audit to check where errors are in the SEO context. Basically to see what makes the website currently problematic for search engines to spider and ranking them properly based on a keyword.Check current meta tags for each page to make sure they are optimized for the correct keyword and the description match what is displayed on a page.Make sure that all the correct formatting is applied to text, which includes checking that the header is correct and important keywords is bolded to have the search engine pick up on each page's topical focus.Make sure that external links is correctly applied and contextual.Ensure that Google Analytics is properly applied and goals is setup.Ensure that Google webmaster tools is properly applied and check that there is no current messages shown witch needs attention, like penalties and basic web errors as well as making sure that the site's sitemap is submitted displaying the correct pages currently indexed in the search engine.Ensure that all pages has enough content and not too thin which could trigger a penalty.Ensure that no current duplicate content exist.Make suggestions for future content and updates.Apply structured markup which can be picked up by a search engine to be displayed in the knowledge graph. Make sure that all images is correctly optimized with a title and alt text to have them properly ranked in google image search when people want to have a look at the images.Make sure that the Google My Business pages have all the correct info and is being displayed correctly and that the website and the page is linked to show it's verification.Do keyword research and look at trends to see what people are currently looking for in the accommodation space and apply it as necessary through the site.Do weekly KPI Reports

Century City, Cape Town

From January 2009 - Dec 2011 I started working for Island Safari as a SEO Practitioner and Webmaster.My duties included:Keeping websites up to date with content and images.Used the latest SEO techniques and trends to keep optimizing website for the mayor search engines and increase traffic to websites. Design new websites.Implement SMO for the company, by means of setting up a Twitter and Facebook page.Create weekly Google Analytics Reports.Create and maintain a blog for the company.

Woodstock, Cape Town

I was responsible for the on-site and offsite SEO of all the company's websites for top positions on all the mayor search engines, including Google, Bing and Yahoo.

Diploma, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia And Information Resources Design

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