Perhaps my best SEO secret is to get links to your job board. You need to get quality back-links from related sites such as blogs. But the best links for job boards come from .edu sites.
Here’s how I do it. I email the college career centers and ask them for one. Most universities have a career placement office (usually called ‘career services’) which help students find employment. They usually have a page on this site with links to various job boards both local and niche. So its a great place to get listed and they are usually amiable to doing it. After all, their job is to help students.
I have had a lot of success asking for these links. I’d say for every 10 colleges I asked, I got a least 2 back-links.
I even paid someone for a whole summer to visit as many college sites as they could find, and email each one individually. It was well worth the money I spent to get them.
Here’s a link to one such page;
http://www.sacredheart.edu/pages/920_internet_resources.cfm
There is an email address on bottom of page which I would use. I also CC’d the staff via this page: http://www.sacredheart.edu/pages/825_contact_us.cfm
The other good tip I have is to buy someone’s blog and use it for SEO. Check out this example which the job site company Jobing uses. There are plenty of blogs out there with decent page rank that you could buy for $500-$1000 and then re-use to your own advantage.
Would a fiverr gig that posts on edu links be a good idea? In other words, are high PR edu links basically the same, no matter where they come from?
Sure it would.