I tend to put vertical job search engines into two primary categories: Islands and peninsulas. Simply Hired is an island, for example, while Flipdog is a peninsula, existing in a supportive role to Monster Worldwide.
In the case of Jobalot, an arm of The Employment Guide, you have a clear example of a peninsula, right? Well, […]

If you haven’t seen this, it’s a very creative, brilliant and thought-provoking way to look at the evolution of Web 2. 0 and the power of you.

According to my tools, the phrase “job search” comes in at No. 2 behind “jobs” as the most searched term in our industry. Needless to say, it’s a biggie.
As an SEO for employment sites, I’m constantly tracking the popularity of niche keyphrases and changes in rankings. In a recent perusal of results for “job search” […]

If you’re a job site with a local focus in the US, chances are Jobing.com is on your radar. Adding cities at a Craigslist-esque pace, if Jobing isn’t in your local market today, chances are they will in the near future.
As a result, it was no surprise to me when I saw they were on […]

While at Employment Guide’s annual conference last week, I sat down with vice-president and GM Jeff Littlejohn. He has some nice insight into evolving from a print-focused company to one looking toward the future and the Net.
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I recently wrote about Google adding related search queries at the foot of some search results pages.
Interestingly, actual job sites are beginning to show up as related searches. Checkout these results searching “Chicago jobs“:

Clicking on the “Career Builder” link takes users to a Google search results page for “Career Builder,” as opposed to hotlinking […]

When EmploymentGuide.com contacted me a few months ago to speak at their annual conference, I was certainly open to the opportunity but was a bit skeptical. You see, the site, primarily targeting the part time jobs market, is just a part of a larger, print-focused organization serving markets across the US.
Keyword: Print-focused. (Or is […]