JSeeker.com.au Ten Months On…
July 2, 2008 by Geoff Jennings
You may have heard of JSeeker.com.au. After launching about ten months ago, they are one of few that are providing job aggregator or vertical search engine services in Australia. Others are (Recruit.net, Myspider.com.au and Jobsites.com.au which uses recruit.net’s engine)
It’s a simple looking site with the techologies developed in-house. It seems that they rely on Google Adsense ads for a revnue source. A quick search shows about 209183 jobs indexed that last month delivered about 800,000 referrals to sites listed on their search engine. (good news for MyCareer and CareerOne)
Not bad for a new player in the market.
I did some SEO research on Google to find out how they are getting these eyeballs when I have never heard of them before. By entering site:jseeker.com.au into the search box on Google Australia you can see how many listings they have. This might help to answer the question:
348,000 from jseeker.com.au
41,600 from myspider.com.au
174,000 from australia.recruit.net
256,000 from seek.com.au.
103,000 from careerone.com.au
(796,000 from mycareer.com.au, great SEO work)
So what’s next for Jseeker? Cuong Hoang from JSeeker provided some insights. They are developing some technologies to enable a few revenue models including pay-per-click sponsored jobs as well as contextual ads (similar to Adsense). They will try to bring more jobs directly from employers via their websites and also have plans for a recommendation engine capable of suggesting jobs to users based on their recently-viewed activity.
JSeeker are my pick for a small site that will make it big in the next few years.
Geoff JSeeker certain have the nicest UI of the 4 boards and the most up to date listing of jobs. I would hope they are also looking at an open API for job widgets etc to allow their content to be republished as this would give them some really good exposure.
Hi Michael
Thanks for dropping by.
I agree, JSeeker should be learning from the US aggregators such as Indeed.com. Here’s an example of an API http://jobs.clusty.com/
I also like the Indeed Jobroll such as the one in http://podcast.prtopics.com/
Michael I’m not sure about your suggestion that an aggregator has “the most up to date listing of jobs”
Since they’re taking the jobs off other websites, by definition they’re less up to date than the originals.
I think Michael is referring to the other aggregators, not main-stream boards , Carey.
Also, I noticed a new player http://www.jobsense.com.au, which seems to have a nice set-up.
What are the legalities of this kind of scraping in Australia anyway? On the fairfax digital site it says:
“Copyright
The material provided on Fairfax Digital is copyright protected. You may use this material for your own personal reference only. Except for the temporary copy held in the computer’s cache and a single permanent copy for your personal reference, the material may not otherwise be used, copied, reproduced, published, stored in a retrieval system, altered or transmitted in any form or by any means in whole or part (except where such use constitutes fair dealing under the Copyright Act) without the prior written approval of Fairfax Digital or the appropriate supplier or licensor of Fairfax Digital.
You may not use any part of the material on an Fairfax Digital site to establish, maintain or provide, or assist in establishing, maintaining or providing your own publications, Internet site or other means of distribution.”
craigvn , i believe these websites have got agreements to publish the jobs. copyright says that you can’t use it” without the prior written approval of Fairfax Digital”.
have you got approval to copy the copyrights?
Link to http://jobsense.com.au posted by Geoff Jennings is not working.