Now that Google Jobs has been up and running for about a year I thought I would share some stats around how much traffic it actually generates on a monthly basis. Below is a screenshot of Analytics from a small board I run called Jobs With Remote. It has about 800-900 jobs on it at…
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Jobg8 Announces the Line-up for Job Board Summit North America 2018
Jobg8, the global job board network, has released the line-up for its annual industry leading conference, Job Board Summit North America 2018. It will run July 26-27, 2018 in Nashville. A host of speakers will address key topics facing the future of the job board industry including artificial intelligence tools, the impact of net neutrality, recruiting in the gig economy…
SimpleJobSite is a free new job board theme
SJS is a free job board template this is available for free from a UK based company. https://simplejobscript.com/ I assume its a wordpress theme. They offer a “complete” version of it for $25 and hosting for about $4/month. The software appears to only offer Indeed as a backfill option. The interface is nicely designed (you…
Job Board News Bytes
Looking to increase your email conversions? This checklist may be of help to job boards and other vendors. Here’s the ultimate cold email checklist. It has everything you need to know before you send your next cold email – the whole enchilada. which domain to use for sending cold emails setting your DNS the correct way…
Job Boards Need to Up Their Content Game
If you are running a job board today you have to realize you are running an internet business that requires great content to get noticed. In an era of same old content it’s time most job boards up their content game.
WP Job Manager Has a New Version Out
WP Job Manager 1.31.0 has shipped recently. You can download the latest release here or head over to Dashboard → Updates to update your plugins from inside WordPress. Email notifications and support for GDPR highlight this current version. Here’s the punch list of what’s included: Support for sending email notifications Adding the ability to delete plugin data…
Google Jobs now in India
In a press event in New Delhi, Google introduced a new search experience in India allowing users to search for jobs within Google. The company aims to make your job hunt simpler allowing you to find relevant employment opportunities from many popular job listing websites, online classifieds, and companies. The company has worked with a…
A Job Board Project Plan Template
One of my clients has allowed me to write about the project plan she created for herself that is helping her get her job board off the ground. I thought it was a great template that others could follow to use in the first two years. I have uploaded it to Slideshare if you want…
Free Images for Your Blog Content
If you are writing blog posts you should be adding images to that content in order to make them more visual/shareable on the web. Good images cost money however. Sites like Shutterstock charge you. But there a a number of places to get free images. I just learned about Reshot which allows aspiring photographers to…
Vendor Market Share
I came across Datanyze which crawls websites and puts them in lists according to what powers them. It turns out they have a job board software list. (view list) This list is not quite accurate however. I have never heard of Job Gear and couldn’t seem to find anything about them online. But this list…