Comments on: seo labor market (or, have you hugged your seo today?)

By: professional web design

professional web design — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 11:09:41 +0000

seo is really a challenging job like you have to design according to google’s taste..:P

im also new to this seo stuff. im not even turning into a fulltime (yet) cause im busy with my job and studies. but i like the competition and everything…

By: Dakait

Dakait — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:44:47 +0000

I don’t know how easy it was in past…because I am new. But now I should say SEO is real. I mean those sites comes in top which deserve and it should be like that only. So I am happy…and quite comfortable at my work.

What I do is …. I make site really resourceful and weighted enough that it top in search engine automatically.

So, Don’t be lazy….do invest what you want to reep..and you will get it.

By: Greenguy

Greenguy — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:53:56 +0000

You know it can get tiring by the end of the day. Trying to stay caught up on the new trends and the new tactics. Trying to figure out what Google favors, and what they don’t, Then figuring out how not to make Google ban you in the process of implementing it.

Your right it is an uphill battle to ge to the top og “Mt Google”. Just like you I love it. It is like a real life version of Axis and Allies, where I need to think my moves out carefully ahead of time and adapt to what my opponents do. I may be tired at the end of the day, but when I wake up I can’t wait to get back into it and figure out where to go from here. Besides, its one job where I learn something truly useful every day.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:47:11 +0000

None of the big sites scare me unless I’m optimizing for “jobs” or some very general term like that, which is rarely the case. Most clients need a specific keyphrase targeted, such as “Chicago nursing jobs” or “Houston jobs.”

By: Dave Lefkow

Dave Lefkow — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:55:56 +0000

In my past life, I knew the SEO person at Monster, and they started employing a much more complex array of tactics to get Monster to rise to the top: custom pages for specific locations (all of the major job sites do this now), metatags, pages with content referencing specific keywords, etc.

How does this affect you in your business trying to get your clients’ jobs and career sites to rise to the top? i.e. Can an individual employer really compete with the Monsters, Hotjobs and CareerBuilders of the world?