Most of the off the shelf job board solutions let you pre-populate your job board with listings from their database. This is called “backfill” and its another way you can earn revenue. Generally speaking its not a lot of money but a job board that gets 10,000 monthly pages views can earn in the ‘hundreds…
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Dice buys another job board – OilCareers
Last week Dice.com bought another niche job board, this time picking up UK based Oilcareers.com. The press release actually mentions the sales of Oilcareers.com which I thought was very interesting and indicative of their strategy in the job board industry. Dice Holdings, Inc. is purchasing OilCareers from the Daily Mail and General Trust PLC (LON:…
Is pot the next great job niche?
With the explosion of medical marijuana sweeping many states like Colorado and Washington, I’m starting to wonder if pot is the next great job niche. A quick search of ‘marijuana jobs‘ on Google shows only 2 real sites: Cannajobs.com and THCjobs.com. If you are looking for a niche thats about to take off this one…
We need more aggregators
File this under things that need to exist. We need a job board only job search engine/directory that lets job boards get indexed for free and helps job seekers uncover more sources. I think job seekers are not discovering all the possible jobs that are online, especially among the niche job boards. Indeed.com is listing…
Nursingjobs.com stands up against bad browsers!
I love this story. IE 7 just needs to die already. Instead of designing their job site to support older browsers like IE 7, Nursingjobs.com said screw it! Its cheaper for us to just buy new pcs for our clients so they have the latest version. Hows that for responsive web design! Read the story…
Make more advertising revenue with Adsense Direct
Ever wanted to have your own version of adsense to sell ads on your site directly? Well if you are willing to let google take a 15% cut now you can. They just launched Adsense Direct. It is only for U.S. based publishers. (via Techcrunch) With AdSense Direct, which is currently only available in the…
Dynamic job post buttons
I think I just created what might be the first dynamic job post button in the industry. In looking for ways to encourage more postings to my new hidden job leads site, we implemented a post button that brings in the location of the page the user is on so that the message on the…
New job boards
Here are some new job boards coming on the scene… Women of STEM targets women in science, tech and math. http://jobs.thejobnetwork.com/home?affiliateid=2583 OhYouHero out of Boston aims to be craigslist/linkedin for freelancers. Thats a tough market to be in because there are oDesk and Elance dominate but I wish them luck. Not sure I like the…
Twitter ads are cheap
Twitter advertising may be just the right mix for your job board. I have started to experiment with them and find them to be effective at driving clicks to my site. And its cost effective too as you can see from the image below. They sent me a nice summary of what I spent and…
Jobboard.io adds apply with Linkedin, mobile apply
The best new job board software on the market, Jobboard.io is getting better. They’ve recently added mobile apply along with Linkedin apply and the ability to create multi-jobs packages. Full disclosure: they sponsor my blog. But I wouldnt let them if I didnt believe in the product. For the Linkedin apply the job board owner…