The SEO Skills Gap: Why Technical Expertise Alone Won’t Cut It Anymore
Technical SEO expertise is table stakes. The real skills gap? Business acumen, strategic thinking, and the ability to prove ROI. Here’s what CMOs need.
Reza Moaiandin is the Co-Founder at SALT. A software engineer by training and certified white-hat hacker, Reza has spent more than two decades fusing code, security insight and search science to keep clients ahead of every algorithm shift. He built “content hub” frameworks long before the phrase took off and still architects the proprietary tools that power SALT’s award-winning methodology.
Technical SEO expertise is table stakes. The real skills gap? Business acumen, strategic thinking, and the ability to prove ROI. Here’s what CMOs need.
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