Comments on: google hates your lil’ job board

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:02:37 +0000

I think you mean “In the second week of January 2009″ instead of “In the second week of January 2008″ right?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:56:48 +0000

Tree care jobs? Seriously? Maybe its good some of these sites go away. You go Google!

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Google update: groot krijgt voorrang | RecTec — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:11:33 +0000

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By: Dean Davis

Dean Davis — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:21:18 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. If they maintain this model it will spell out the begining of the end. As an example, for Tree Professionals it does not supply the best results for job seekers when they remove TreecareJobs.com from the index all together (which they did in mid January..just like the article says). Treecare pros use the board all the time, but now some good arborists have trouble finding it. Even the largest tree employer in the world (2 billion dollar company) runs a link from their career section. I hope this story is picked up by big media. Thank you.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:40:14 +0000

I run 3 niche job boards (BlockIslandJobs.com, MarthasVineyardWorks.com & NantucketWorks.com) and I’ve been watching this trend for the past couple of weeks. The big 3 are showing up on page one results on Google and they don’t have any jobs on the islands!