The recent Google ‘Panda’ update to their algorithim has significantly affected some of my jobamatic sites. All the ones I had with or without a homepage and where I used my own domain lost virtually all of the seo traffic last month. Total bummer. Audiojobs.com went from #1 for the term ‘audio jobs’ to ‘nowhere to be found’ in search results.

On the plus side the green sites I have hosted with my own homepage and which did not use my own domain in the jobamatic portion did not lose anything. Sites like JobsinBiofuels.com which have a homepage on my own domain and link to a subdomain http://jobsinbiofuels.jobamatic.com/a/jobs/find-jobs
on the backend were NOT affected. The reason is that it’s a subdomain of jobamatic.com which has solid pagerank. This doesnt make any sense to me (its the same content) but you cant argue with a machine which is what google is.

So i would now just host your own homepage and link off to jobamatic like i’m doing with the biofuels site. I’m eventually taking the philly, baltimore and dc sites off jobamatic since its no longer the link magnet it once was. I cant say for sure this is true for all jobamatic sites because I have seen other sites still rank. I’m starting to think its more about my specific domains which I bought last year from another job boarder. For some reason Google no longer likes them.

If your site was affected by the update I’d love to hear from you.

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