JobX Taking Over The Country…
July 18, 2008 by Geoff Jennings · 1 Comment
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.
JSeeker.com.au Ten Months On…
July 2, 2008 by Geoff Jennings · 6 Comments
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.
