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Popular blog Mashable has a job board powered by Jobamatic and they recently announced some new upgrades. Its a customized version of the job board software and I really like the newer look and the easy to use Twitter and Facebook buttons that make it easy to share a job.

They also indicate original listings with an “exclusive” graphic which is also a nice touch.

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Here’s a few items from the job board world you should know about.

Job-a-matic: Job-a-matic Guide to Increasing Job Postings

New job search engine: Jobety has launched. Its a niche aggregator that caters to web design and development jobs.

More and more job boards are increasing their reach through job distribution networks.

New Job board for Gamers is launching. GameJobsDirect is a very nice looking global job board that is powered by a UK job board sw provider called Strategies. The UK providers always seem to have really nice designs/interfaces.

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.