I’m getting better at monetizing my affiliate earnings through Jobg8 and ZipRecruiter. Here is a quick update on how things are doing among my 4 active job boards: StartupJobs.com, JobMote.com, JobsWithRemote.com and Recruiting Jobs. My ZipRecruiter account earned $48 in April and continues to rise each month. I restarted the Startupjobs.com site in April which…
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Niche Job Board Update
Back in February I wrote about my new niche job board Jobs With Remote. It had a couple thousand visitors and had just starting picking up traffic from Google Jobs. This is an update to that post. TRAFFIC The site is picking up steam and should hit nearly 5,000 monthly visitors and 9,000 page views for…
Buying an Old Job Board (member only)
I bought a “used” job board this week. Jobmote.com an aggregator of remote job listings was for sale on Flippa and I decided to pick it up. I won it at auction for $805. Not bad for a 5 year old domain and a site with a few thousand visitors and Facebook and Twitter accounts…
Every Job Board Should Do This (member only)
The team at Ezayo.com a new HR job board has put their job posting form right on the home page. I think its genius! Being able to post a job and see the pricing up front should help optimize sales.
Leverage Your Email List for More Revenue (member only)
Are you leveraging your job board signups through email to make more money? You should be. If not, here’s a good example for how to do it.
Inside the Progress of my latest Niche Board (member only)
I’m seeing a nice uptick in traffic once I switched niches and changed JobsWithRelo.com into JobsWithRemote.com that offered a more appealing and broader niche to job seekers. So far I am happy with the results. Nearly 2/3 of my traffic is coming from two sources: search engines and social media. Google Jobs is starting to…
Job Boards Will Love This Lead Gen Tool (member only)
8Legs is an awesome lead gen tool that I have recently started using. Access it here: https://www.8legs.com/ Cost $30 per month. It lets you search employer career sites and other job boards according to keywords and displays any emails it finds on those sites. You set up an email template, do your keyword search and go…
Use This Free Tool to Create Job Board Content (member only)
Many job board owners struggle with creating content. But I have always had luck getting it from other people. Namely users and people in my social networks. So here’s the idea. Use the free Google Forms service to survey your registered seekers and candidates. Google Forms, which is part of the Google Driver service (for gmail…
This WorkMeme is a Home Run on Social Media (member only)
When it comes to using social media to build your job board I’m a big fan of Work Memes you can find online. Case in point any meme from the movie ‘Office Space’. I’ve been running social media for JobsInTheUS.com the past few months and this one I posted went totally viral. Since I posted…
How to find free XML job feeds to use (member only)
I don’t like to start sites with no job listings so I use publicly available XML job feeds I find online to populate my sites like HRtechTalent. Using the Auto-import function in my Jobboard.io account I am pulling in 3 feeds, one for HRIS jobs, one for iCiMS jobs and one for jobs at Kronos….