Black Hat SEO Manager

Department: SEO / Digital Growth
Level: Manager
Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: India / Remote
Experience: 7+ Years in SEO, with strong experience in advanced SEO strategies

About the Role

ModernEdge Technologies is looking for an experienced and highly analytical Black Hat SEO Manager to lead advanced SEO campaigns across multiple projects, websites, industries, and international markets.

The role will involve managing SEO campaigns across business websites, affiliate websites, gaming websites, and other highly competitive niches, requiring strong hands-on knowledge of advanced SEO, competitor analysis, technical SEO, link building, authority building, and SEO experimentation.

The ideal candidate should be comfortable working with competitive search environments and managing strategies across multiple domains while continuously monitoring rankings, traffic, indexing, algorithm changes, and campaign performance.

Key ResponsibilitiesSEO Strategy & Campaign Management

- Develop and execute advanced SEO strategies for multiple websites, industries, and international markets.
- Manage SEO campaigns across gaming websites, affiliate websites, business websites, and other competitive niches.
- Own SEO performance from strategy and implementation through monitoring, analysis, and optimization.
- Build aggressive but structured organic-growth strategies based on competitive opportunities and search behavior.
- Conduct continuous SEO experiments and document results to identify scalable strategies.
- Develop short-term and long-term SEO roadmaps based on ranking, traffic, and business objectives.

Keyword & Competitor Research

- Conduct advanced keyword research and identify high-value, low-competition, commercial, and long-tail opportunities.
- Analyze competitors' keyword profiles, backlink profiles, content strategies, technical structures, and ranking patterns.
- Perform detailed competitor research for gaming and other highly competitive search markets.
- Identify competitor weaknesses and opportunities that can be leveraged through SEO campaigns.
- Monitor SERP changes, competitor movements, algorithm updates, and emerging search trends.

On-Page SEO

- Optimize title tags, meta descriptions, headings, URLs, content structure, images, internal linking, and other on-page elements.
- Develop and implement advanced internal-linking and site-architecture strategies.
- Identify opportunities to improve topical authority and organic visibility.
- Work with content teams to optimize existing and new content for search performance.
- Develop SEO structures suitable for large and content-heavy gaming websites.

Technical SEO

- Conduct comprehensive technical SEO audits.
- Identify and resolve issues related to crawling, indexing, canonicalization, redirects, structured data, site architecture, duplicate content, and page performance.
- Work with developers to implement technical SEO recommendations.
- Monitor Google Search Console and other technical SEO signals regularly.
- Manage technical SEO requirements for large-scale gaming and affiliate websites.
- Identify technical opportunities that can improve crawling, indexing, and rankings.

Advanced / Black Hat SEO





- Research and test advanced SEO methodologies and unconventional ranking strategies.
- Conduct controlled SEO experiments to evaluate the effectiveness and risk of different approaches.
- Identify opportunities involving authority building, content networks, expired-domain research, link acquisition, SERP positioning, and other advanced SEO techniques.
- Develop scalable systems for testing SEO strategies across multiple websites and domains.
- Apply advanced SEO strategies to gaming websites and highly competitive niches.
- Continuously monitor campaigns for ranking volatility, penalties, deindexation, manual actions, and algorithmic changes.
- Maintain clear documentation of experiments, outcomes, risks, and lessons learned.
- Adapt strategies quickly based on search-engine behavior and campaign performance.

Link Building & Off-Page SEO

- Develop and manage sophisticated link-building and authority-building campaigns.
- Identify relevant websites, domains, publishers, and link opportunities.
- Manage outreach, guest-posting, digital PR, and other authority-building initiatives.
- Analyze backlink profiles and identify toxic, low-quality, or potentially harmful links.
- Develop structured off-page strategies for gaming, affiliate, and highly competitive websites.
- Research domains and link opportunities based on relevance, authority, history, and SEO potential.

Analytics & Reporting

- Monitor organic traffic, rankings, conversions, backlinks, indexing, and other SEO KPIs.
- Use Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Ahrefs, SEMrush, and other SEO platforms to analyze performance.
- Prepare regular SEO performance reports and communicate key findings.
- Identify performance drops quickly and develop corrective strategies.
- Track gaming website performance, keyword movements, traffic trends, and competitor activity.
- Use data to determine which strategies should be scaled, modified, or discontinued.

SEO Automation & Process Development

- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive SEO processes.
- Build efficient workflows for keyword research, reporting, competitor monitoring, content optimization, and campaign tracking.
- Maintain organized documentation of SEO processes, experiments, and results.
- Develop repeatable SEO frameworks that can be implemented across multiple projects and websites.

Team & Project Management

- Lead and coordinate SEO executives, specialists, content teams, developers, and other relevant team members.
- Assign SEO tasks and monitor execution and deadlines.
- Review SEO work for quality, accuracy, and strategic alignment.
- Train junior SEO team members on advanced SEO concepts and methodologies.
- Take ownership of campaign performance and provide strategic direction to the team.

Client & Internal Collaboration

- Work closely with account managers,



content teams, developers, designers, and marketing specialists.
- Participate in strategy discussions and provide SEO recommendations based on campaign data.
- Communicate SEO performance, opportunities, challenges, and strategic changes clearly.
- Support the development of SEO proposals, audits, strategies, and client presentations when required.

Required Skills & Qualifications

- 7+ years of hands-on SEO experience, preferably within an agency environment.
- Strong understanding of on-page, off-page, technical, local, international, and advanced SEO.
- Hands-on experience with gaming websites, gaming SEO, affiliate websites, or similarly competitive niches is highly preferred.
- Proven experience managing multiple SEO projects and websites simultaneously.
- Strong understanding of Google Search and ranking systems.
- Solid working knowledge of Ahrefs, SEMrush, Screaming Frog, Google Search Console, and Google Analytics.
- Strong keyword research and competitor-analysis skills.
- Strong understanding of link-building and authority-building methodologies.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to interpret large amounts of SEO data and turn insights into actionable strategies.
- Understanding of HTML, CSS, CMS platforms, and website architecture.
- Excellent communication and reporting skills.
- Ability to independently manage SEO campaigns from strategy through execution.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to work under deadlines.
- Experience with international SEO and multiple geographic markets is highly preferred.

Preferred Experience

- Previous experience working in a digital marketing or SEO agency.
- Experience managing gaming websites or gaming SEO campaigns.
- Experience with affiliate SEO and competitive niches.
- Experience managing multiple domains and websites.
- Experience with highly competitive keywords and international markets.
- Experience with advanced SEO experimentation and testing.
- Experience managing or mentoring an SEO team.
- Familiarity with SEO automation, APIs, AI-assisted SEO workflows, and large-scale SEO processes.

What We Look For

We are looking for someone who:

- Thinks strategically but is highly hands-on.
- Has genuine experience working with gaming websites and competitive SEO environments.
- Is comfortable testing and experimenting with advanced SEO strategies.
- Understands both the opportunities and risks associated with aggressive SEO.
- Makes decisions based on data rather than assumptions.
- Can identify ranking opportunities before competitors.
- Takes ownership of results.
- Can manage both strategy and execution.
- Continuously researches changes in search engines and the SEO industry.

Success in This Role

Success will be measured through:

- Organic visibility and ranking growth
- Qualified organic traffic
- Organic conversions and leads
- Gaming website SEO performance
- Campaign execution and scalability
- Quality and growth of website authority
- Successful SEO experiments
- Technical SEO improvements
- Client/project performance
- Team productivity and execution

Pay: ₹60,000.00 - ₹80,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person

📌 Senior SEO Manager (India)
🏢 ModernEdge Technologies
📍 India