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SEO Outreach test

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Summary of the SEO Outreach test

TestGorilla's SEO Outreach test evaluates candidates’ abilities in link building, relationship management, and search engine algorithms. It will help you identify SEO professionals who can manage and execute outreach and link-building campaigns to drive organic traffic to your website.

Covered skills

  • SEO prospect research

  • Outreach and link-building campaign ideas

  • Prospecting and email outreach

  • Reporting and analytics

Use the SEO Outreach test to hire

SEO outreach managers, digital marketing specialists, SEO analysts, SEO specialists, content marketing managers, and digital marketing coordinators.

About the SEO Outreach test

Hiring a candidate with strong skills in SEO outreach can greatly benefit your business by increasing visibility and driving traffic to your website. As more and more consumers rely on search engines to find products and services, it is crucial that your website appears at the top of search results. A skilled SEO outreach manager can help you achieve this by building relationships with other websites and getting them to link back to the business's website, boosting its search engine rankings.

This test evaluates candidates’ abilities in several key areas of SEO outreach, including link building, relationship management, and knowledge of search engine algorithms and SEO fundamentals. The test will assess their understanding of SEO best practices, ability to identify and target relevant websites for link building, and ability to effectively communicate with internal stakeholders, website owners, and editors.

This screening test will help you identify candidates who can translate their skills in SEO outreach into results for your business. Candidates who do well on this test will have the knowledge and abilities to effectively increase visibility and drive traffic to your website through outreach and link building, resulting in increased revenue and growth for your business. And they will be able to build and maintain relationships with other websites, which can be beneficial for long-term success.

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Naman N.

Naman is an SEO outreach expert with over ten years of experience in eCommerce and SaaS growth. He excels in crafting metrics-driven strategies and has driven over $500m in revenue for the companies he has worked with by building effective keyword, content, and link-building process frameworks.

Naman's expertise also includes intent-based SEO, technical SEO, and effective link building.

Reliability: Cronbach’s alpha coefficient = .64

Face validity: Candidates rated this test as accurately measuring their skills (average score of 3.97 out of 5.00).

Criterion-related validity: Candidates with higher scores on this test received higher average ratings from the hiring team during the selection process (r = .1, N = 125).

For an in-depth look at interpreting test results, please take a look at our Science series articles: How to interpret test fact sheets (part 1): Reliability, and How to interpret test fact sheets (part 2): Validity.

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Reliability and validity

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Outcome

Reliability

✔

✔

Acceptable

Content validity

✔

✔

Acceptable

Face validity

✔

✔

Acceptable

Construct validity

Pending

Pending

Pending

Criterion-related validity

✔

✔

Acceptable

Group differences

Age differences

Pending

Pending

Pending

Gender differences

✔

✔

Acceptable

Ethnicity differences

Pending

Pending

Pending

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