Archive for February, 2007

Interview with Jobalot’s Kirsteen Lankford

February 28th, 2007

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, […]

video to make jobster’s jason goldberg weep with joy

February 27th, 2007

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.

simply hired strikes seo gold with job-a-matic widget

February 27th, 2007

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” […]

jobing.com gets serious about seo

February 26th, 2007

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 […]

interview with employmentguide.com head jeff littlejohn

February 25th, 2007

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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job sites showing up as related searches on google

February 25th, 2007

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 […]

two days in norfolk, virginia with the employment guide

February 23rd, 2007

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 […]

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