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…
Tag: SEO
New directory to list your job board
Recruiters Junction emailed me as they have a new free directory to get your job board listed on. Directories like this offer a great link building opportunity so add your listing asap. Suppliers for Recruitment Market: Are you offering products & services to Recruitment or HR industry & your product is not listed here in…
Another place to list your job board
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…
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…
Google adding job snippets in results
After googling the phrase “aviation jobs” the other day I noticed this result which caught my eye. Google is creating job snippets off job boardsand placing them in job related searches. So I clicked the “About this Result” link in the bottom right which led me to this page. Apparently Google automatically creates this snippet…
7 Sites to Get Job Board Backlinks for Free (member only)
If you have a new job board or haven’t been spending time lately on your SEO, help is here. Every site needs RELATED backlinks from other sites in the career/jobs space so here are several of them where you can add your own. 1. HIRE DAILY – this news sites which has been around for…
10 sites to get a backlink for your job board (member only)
If you aren’t working on getting backlinks to your job board then your SEO will suffer. Google WANTS to see other related sites linking to you so its imperative to always be looking for a backlink. Below are ten sites where you can get them for free or a small fee. These sites will let…
Great example of an SEO optimized job description
Lots of job boards and ATS software still dont get how to make a search engine friendly job description. I discovered Freshgigs.ca, a canadian based job board for marketing peeps and thought their job postings were well done. * The URL contains the job title AND location: https://www.freshgigs.ca/jobs/product-brand-marketing-manager-toronto-on-1 * The first thing on the page…
How important is social media to your SEO?
Answer: Very Important! Look at this graphic from SearchMetrics. Social media likes/shares are critical to how search engines see your content. I think the good news from this report is that using social media is free and you can pay for more likes on Facebook fairly cheaply. Read the whole report here as I think…
Before you launch (member only)
Before you launch a job board (or any site) I think its important to lay some groundwork before you go live. Specifically there are two important marketing tactics you should employ. A blog and an email list. Before I launched CareerCloud.com in January of this year I began by setting the domain to Launchrock so…