On top of my job board directory on CareerCloud I just discovered another place to list your job board for free. Its called SimplyCareer and they have a nice looking directory. Get listed here. As a job board owner you should be constantly seeking out other sites to get listed on. It’s an important SEO…
Author: chrisr2
How to Increase Job Alert Signups
While talking to the team at UK based Talenetic last week I learned of a great way that one of their customers, TopEngineer.com boosted their job alert signups by 19%. Check out this screencast. They placed the box after every 10 listings. Smart move. If you have the ability to insert more subscribe boxes into…
Reach 9,000 Job Seekers Through Email
I have an email list of job seekers that I have built up via CareerCloud over the years. Would you like to reach them in a single email blast? For $199 I will email your message to them. These are job seekers all across the country so it is a US based audience. If you have…
Job Listings Need More ‘Friend’ Not Social Sharing
It has been common practice throughout the job board and ATS worlds to make jobs easily shareable with social media buttons. The thinking is people will share them and help drive traffic. But it doesn’t work. Job listings are inherently not designed to be shared. Cute puppy videos yes, but not drab job text. Instead…
Career advice site with 40k monthly uniques for sale
I have a career site up for auction on Flippa. Take a look if you are interested in acquiring a career advice/job board with strong SEO rankings, multiple revenue streams and highly unique content. The Buy It Now price is $79k.
Job board SEO makes a comeback
Last week the news broke that WayUP a college focused job site had acquired Looksharp, one of it’s competitors in the college recruiting sector. That news is good news for all job boards but there is another aspect of the deal that deserves attention. WayUp bought Looksharp mainly because of it’s SEO rankings. According to…
Content Marketing Tips for Job Board Owners (member only)
Every job board, whether local, niche or national, should be creating, sharing and promoting all aspects of a job search and careers. I can’t emphasize this enough. If you aren’t willing or able to crank out good content to your audience then perhaps running a job board is not for you. The more content you…
Job board revenues up 11% says SIA
With the job market tightening job boards are benefitting, according to a new report from Staffing Industry Analysts. Check out these quotes from the article. They remain an important — and evolving — tool for staffing firms. We estimate that job boards are growing at almost twice the rate of the global staffing industry. The…
Hiring for your job board? There’s a site for that
HR Tech Talent is my latest launch. After receiving many requests from job boards and HR tech companies about “if I knew anyone” to help them staff up, I thought a dedicated job site would be the best tool to send them too. The site is powered by Jobboard.io and features free listings as well…
Software Vendor Shutting Down
A longtime software provider has shut down. Searchease which was started 18 years ago is now defunct. I don’t believe they were powering many sites so its not big deal in the grand scheme of things. The do own a good domain name however so for current providers of job board software I’d recommend trying to acquire…