http://www.recruitment-seo.com Expert Advice for Recruiters and Web Developers Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:47:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've had a couple of queries about my post on the SEO template for a job details page - in particular about the job description and title itself, so wanted to expand on that a little. Job Title I still seem to come across so many job descriptions on websites that appear ... http://www.recruitment-seo.com/featured-articles/job-description-template/ If you think you're working hard to get the right candidates in the right posts, think how hard some candidates are working... Alec Brownstein, a 28 year old New Yorker who was in need of copywriting work. Alec's plan was to play upon the the guilty pleasure of 'Vanity Searches' (Googling your ... http://www.recruitment-seo.com/google/vanity-search-nets-a-good-job/ One of the common problems we have to overcome is 'design' not really being about 'design' at all - but being about visual appeal. I posted this earlier today on the Reverse Delta blog but thought it worth posting here... though I guess I'm preaching to the converted here if you're ... http://www.recruitment-seo.com/featured-articles/recruitment-websites-by-design/ We understand the importance of the Brand - all companies need to keep careful control of how they come across to their audience - and the importance of presenting a good image to your audience - whether clients or candidates - on your website is very high. You only ... http://www.recruitment-seo.com/featured-articles/flash-and-seo-understanding-the-balance-and-implications/ A good web developer for your recruitment website is a huge asset to any recruitment web design project - or indeed an in-house developer can be to a recruitment company if it's large enough. But many developers do not seem to 'get' SEO - probably because they don't see ... http://www.recruitment-seo.com/seo-basics/does-your-web-developer-do-or-get-seo/ With a massive pressure to reduce costs, it was a sort of inevitability that some big firms were going to club together and produce a truly free (well almost) super-job board. 'United We Work' was set up earlier this month in the US by the Fortune 500 companies. "We believe ... http://www.recruitment-seo.com/featured-articles/how-should-recruiters-deal-with-truly-free-job-boards/ Not the real Borat, but it just shows how a bit of sneaky viral marketing can suck the likes of me in... http://www.recruitment-seo.com/recruitment-trends/recruitment-tips-from-borat/ I've seen so many articles recently about complex mothods of getting your jobs 'fed' onto Twitter. It's so simple and there are a few sites / providers out there with vested interests giving people all manner of complex advice about how to automatically display your jobs on Twitter. It's so simple to ... http://www.recruitment-seo.com/featured-articles/tweet-your-jobs-the-easy-way/ Just stepping outside of the SEO loop and into the wider world of Search Engine Marketing (SEM), I thought it was time to post something about the use of Adwords in helping to market your recruitment website. SEO is generally considered more 'worthy' by us SEO types. It's doing something ... http://www.recruitment-seo.com/featured-articles/free-versus-paid/ Just wanted to clear something up for a client who didn't fully understand the use of 'nofollow' links when adding comments on blogs etc. As we all know (surely!) a link to your site is generally a very good thing.  A link with good anchor text is generally even better.  This ... http://www.recruitment-seo.com/featured-articles/this-is-a-democracy-use-your-vote/