What is a job search engine? Beyond Google and Yahoo!

Posted by Dave Haygarth in 1job, Attracting New Candidates, Featured Articles, Goal Conversion, Google, Indeed, Job Aggregators, Trovit, Visitor Retention, Workcircle on 03 25th, 2009 | No Comments

Traditional organic SEO means (to put things simply) focus on mainly Google (organic) results and, if you have time, Yahoo (organic) results. It’s no wonder – if someone wants to find something on the web, we all know where people go first – it makes sense to focus your resources there. But what happens when they discover a ‘new’ search engine? (more…)

When Candidates are in Large Supply? More SEO needed!

Posted by Dave Haygarth in Goal Conversion, Recruitment Trends, Visitor Retention on 03 6th, 2009 | No Comments

A chat with my colleague Dave earlier today about the effects the recession is having on SEO for Recruitment Companies.

The Apparent problem: When there’s so many more people in the market looking for jobs, haven’t we achieved our goals, and got more visitors, regsitrations, CVs (i.e. people) to their website?
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Keep em coming back

Posted by Dave Haygarth in Analytics & Conversion, Candidates, Content Optimisation, Visitor Retention on 02 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

If there’s one thing that keeps coming up as a source of frustration, it’s getting low visitor retention rates.  As an SEO person, you do all within your power to bring new traffic in tot he site, it seems such a shame to let it go off again!  Here’s some tips  about generating repeat visits. (more…)

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