Search Seek On Google

This Onrec blog has commented previously about Seek’s relative lack of search engine optimisation.  However, I s’pose this doesn’t matter if you get a job search box in Google’s organic search results.

Let’s say you type in ‘Accounting’ into this search box, you will then be presented with a list of jobs from Seek with the term ‘Accounting’ in them. Click away…

When you search MyCareer or other job boards they don’t get the same celebrity treatment??

JobX Taking Over The Country…

JobX have white labelled yet another site. OurPatch powered by the JobX engine has launched a full-feature “regional” job board providing country folk a dedicated space for jobs.

OurPatch is a network of websites for rural and regional Australian towns offering community and business listings etc.  OurPatch also fancy themselves as search engine optimisation (SEO) experts. They help the smaller regional sites get ranking in search engines like Google.  A quick search on Google shows they have 128,000 listings - not bad for a regional site.  At $30 per ad OurPatch will help their advertisers compete with those in the big smoke, who pay hundreds for an ad on the major boards.

Telecommuting - The Tell All

Telecommuting started as a bit of an experiment on my part. At the genesis of my company, technology for communicating globally was beginning to appear from the shadows of the backrooms of a bunch of computer geeks. Skype, for instance, had remedied some of the problems had with delays and such, and was proving itself an effective tool for, say, boardroom discussions. And you know how the adage goes - it was there, so I decided to use it. Read more