In-House SEO
Working full-time inside one brand or product company, responsible for that single site and its entire lifecycle from strategy through every algorithm update.
Analogy Mental model
A private chef. One household, every day — which means knowing each person's preferences, restrictions, and what they will actually eat, and cooking to that rather than to a menu.
In practice What you actually do
The advantages are real: deep product knowledge, the ability to follow one project across years rather than quarters, short lines to the people who control the site, and complete first-party data. The trade-off is a narrower reference frame — you know your own category intimately and the rest of the industry barely at all.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
The hardest part isn't technique, it's influence. You cannot change the product, merge the code, or move the brand budget yourself, so every meaningful win requires persuading a team with its own roadmap. Communication is the survival skill here.
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