Your Team:The Sun is the biggest newsbrand in the UK, across print and digital. The Sun’s multi-award-winning Audience department sits at the heart of our digital newsroom, with our talented journalists publishing the best coverage of news, sport, TV and showbiz, lifestyle and family value. The team is constantly evolving, growing new audiences, and building engagement and loyalty with our readers and viewers.
Your role:
We’re looking for a Sport SEO Editor to work across a full-time rota, including some weekends, in our fast-paced newsroom and provide support to the Sport department, journalists and editors - from day-to-day guidance to longer-term insight.
This is a full-time role on a 40 hours per week contract, with the successful candidate required to work varying hours at the manager’s discretion.
Day to day you will:
- Act as a go-to person for journalists and reporters seeking advice or improvements to articles
- Understand what makes sport blogs drive search traffic at key search periods
- Manage our live sport blogs in a minute-by-minute environment and liaise with key homepage editors on look and feel
- Report each morning on the top SEO keywords driving traffic
- Make recommendations to journalists for relevant keywords to target on articles and blogs
- Make recommendations on what articles should be earmarked to do well on Google Discover and how to keep them optimised
- Report each morning on how The Sun’s sport pages are ranking compared to rivals
- Pre-plan for future articles and events by building out topics and doing keyword research for upcoming exclusives or events
- Monitor trending data for newsroom suggestions and pass to editorial desks
- Optimise top pages for relevant keywords
- Forward link top traffic driving pages to encourage circulation
- Monitor daily output and ensure relevant cross-linking in articles
- Ensure articles and pages are correctly tagged
- Edit and/or complete metadata on topics and articles
- Edit or ensure that picture captions are suitably written and include crawlable/indexable data
- Have an appreciation of how great visuals work in a crowded marketplace on Google Top Stories
- Work across a rolling rota, including some nights and weekends, to cover the biggest sporting events
- What we are looking for form you:Editorial background with experience in a digital publishing environment
- Expert knowledge and interest in the British sporting landscape
- Knowledge of US sport desirable
- Good understanding of the principles of SEO
- Experience of optimising websites for SEO
- Familiar with a range of SEO tools such as GSC, SEM Rush, Trisolute News Dashboard or Majestic
- An understanding of how Google Discover works and best practices
- Experience of working within Wordpress
News UK
Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:
- A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
- 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
- Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
- Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
- Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions
- Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes
- ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme
- Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.
