SEO and Content Marketing Work in the United States, 2026: Evidence from 100 Current Vacancies

This MTF Institute Research Team report analyses a structured purposive sample of 100 unique current U.S. SEO and content marketing vacancies from 95 employers, retrieved on 16 September 2026. It examines search intent, content planning and briefs, on-page and technical SEO, internal linking, ethical digital PR, cross-functional work and performance measurement.

The archive contains the visually reviewed research PDF, a rights-safe vacancy index with derived coding and source URLs, aggregate role-requirements and co-occurrence matrices, coding summary, geography controls, methods and limitations. Full vacancy descriptions, minimal evidence excerpts and the raw discovery ledger are not republished.

The sample is purposive, not random or nationally representative. The report makes no promise of rankings, AI citations, links, coverage, traffic, revenue, employment or salary. It preserves editorial independence, privacy-aware measurement and accountable human approval for consequential actions.