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Top Job Boards

Posted October 25th, 2008 by admin

1. SitePoint Marketplace - SitePoint’s Marketplace may be best known as the web’s premier place to buy and sell web sites, but it also has a great “Looking to Hire” section where you can find plenty of web development, design, and writing jobs.
2. 37signals Job Board - The wild success of the 37signals job board arguably is what sparked the job board craze. It mainly focuses on programming and design jobs, though also attracts some business/executive jobs and copywriting positions. The 37signals job board is syndicated to design magazine A List Apart and to the official Ruby on Rails site, and has a companion gig board for smaller, one-off jobs.
3. CrunchBoard - TechCrunch was one of the first big blogs to add a job board, and has done so with great success. CrunchBoard tends to attract a lot of business/exec and programming jobs.
4. ReadWriteWeb Job Board - Every blog has a slightly different core audience and will attract a different set of employers. There may be some overlap, but you should definitely try to identify which job board’s employers mesh most with the position you’re trying to attain. ReadWriteWeb’s job board tends to attract mostly web development job offers.
5. Ajaxian Job Board - Ajaxian’s is a web developer heavy job board, though it’s not as JavaScript centric as you might guess.
6. Krop - Krop is a huge job board for web design jobs (though you’ll find some copywriting and project management jobs mixed in on occasion), that is syndicated to a long list of great design sites, such as morgueFile, COLOURlovers, and Think Vitamin. The list of syndication sites guarantees that employers will continue to use Krop and it will always have a good selection of jobs for you to choose from.
7. Authentic Jobs - Cameron Moll’s Authentic Jobs is another great graphic design job board that is syndicated to top design sites. Listing partners include 456 Berea Street, IconBuffet, and Subtraction.
8. Ars Technica Job Board - Ars Technica is one of the most widely read tech sites on the Internet. The good news is that means their job board is hopping with great listings, the bad news is that also means the competition is fierce. Ars Technica’s job board is very programming and IT centric.
9. Zend Job Board - Zend operates a job board specifically geared toward PHP programming jobs, and as a result is one of the best places to find PHP-specific work.
10. CenterNetworks Job Board - A year ago CenterNetworks was a web 2.0 blog known mostly by those close to the web 2.0 scene. Now, proprietor Allen Stern has built it into one of the top-tier web 2.0 blogs on the Internet. As a result, the job board has become a great place to find work at web 2.0 companies, especially those in the New York area.
11. Freelance Switch Job Board - If you’re a freelancer looking for design and development gigs, the Freelance Switch job board might be a great place to start.
12. Smashing Magazine Job Board - Over the past two years, Smashing Magazine has risen to become one of the most popular web development blogs on the net. Their job board is this as popular with employers as their site is with readers, and there is a steady stream of programming and design jobs posted there.
13. Boxes and Arrows Job Board - Monthly web development magazine Boxes and Arrows operates a popular job board that attracts a lot of UX and design listings.
14. Coroflot Jobs - Designer portfolio site Coroflot runs a popular job board for design, art, and advertising jobs. About 15 new jobs are added every day to the site, so check back daily.
15. MetaFilter Job Board - News site MetaFilter also operates a job board. It’s a fairly eclectic mix of listings, but generally attracts mostly web development want ads.
16. Fresh Web Jobs - A job board for web development jobs, the site offers a bookmarklet for job seekers allowing them to save jobs from other sites and job boards to their account on Fresh Web Jobs.
17. Social Media Jobs - This is possibly the best place to look for jobs in the new fields of social media and online community management.
18. Slashdot Job Board - Slashdot’s job board was slapped onto the site as an afterthought, so it doesn’t get as many listings as you might think a site of that size would. Because of the street cred that Slashdot has, however, it does attract a handful of top-quality IT and programming jobs.
19. SearchWebJobs.com - A whole bevy of CSS gallery sites syndicate jobs listed on SearchWebJobs.com, which makes it a great place to find web design work.
20. ProBlogger Job Board - There is no better place to find paid blogging jobs than the ProBlogger job board.

Driving traffic to your squidoo lens

Posted October 16th, 2008 by admin

As mentioned numerous times by our writers, Squidoo lens provide an easy way to develop traffic for your sites while producing a little revenue themselves. Because Squidoo.com really does not provide any resources on how to increase the visibility and popularity of your lens on the site, I want to discuss a few ways to increase traffic.

First step comes in your development of course, squidoo lens are content driven hubs, so it is important that your content is quality and unique. Make sure you provide relevant tags and meta-data for your lens, this will be important for indexing within Squidoo.

Social Bookmarking

Utilizing these social bookmarking sites you will be able to submit your lens to audiences far larger then those typically browsing on Squidoo.com. Here is a list of sites I recommend for Squidoo lens submission!

1. Digg.Com

Probably the largest social network available for content bookmarking.

2. del.icio.us

del.icio.us is another top social bookmarking site to submit quality lenses to.

3. Bluedot

A social bookmarking site supporting friend network

4. Stumbleupon

Stumbleupon is the social bookmarking site that I have had the best luck with as far as getting traffic. If people like your site, they will give it athumbs up and it will get a lot of hits. So make sure you have your lens done and looking good before submitting or you might not get too many hits from it.

Check out this great Stumble Upon lens for more info.

5. Furl

A social bookmarking site created by Looksmart.

6. Lensroll

Social bookmarking specifically for Squidoo Lens!

7. Onlywire

This service allows you to submit to numerous social bookmarking sites!

8. Socialmarker

This service also allows you to submit to numerous social bookmarking sites, quickly!

Once you have submitted to a variety of social bookmarking sites, you are going to want to connect them with our favorite social network Twitter!

Twitter is a mini blog/social networking site where you can add friends, make updates about what you’re doing and add links to your Squidoo sites or other sites. You can only type 140 characters in each update including URLs.

You might get followers who will check out what you’re up to. Check out Writertiff’s Twitter Traffic lens for a good explanation.

This SquidU Post has some good advice about using Twitter and not spamming.

The Twitter Module has arrived, thanks to the SquidooCool blog for getting the word out.

If you aren’t sure what to do with twitter, check out Using Twitter Effectively by Reel World.

Find other lensmasters on Twitter and add your twitter page.

Next, you are going to need to utilize

Squidoo Directories

1. The Isle of Squid

Directory for Squidoo lenses only with tons of categories.

2. The Squidirectory

A directory for Squidoo Lenses. Check out the directory and add your link.

3. Squoogle Article Link Directory

Squoogle accepts quality content from Squidoo but also other sites like HubPages, Gather, Associated Content, and LaunchTags.

4. Squidoo Directory - SquidUtils

Get listed in this directory automatically by logging in to SquidUtils, but you must have “sensible primary tags” for your lenses.

5. LensmasterWorld.com

Squidoo Lens’ directory.

6. Squiddit

Squiddit is Reddit for Squidoo. Vote for your favorite Squidoo lenses. Only editors can add lenses to prevent spam.

7. Squidtop

Captain Squid announced SquidTop, which is a site that lets you blog about your Squidoo Lenses. Check it out at squidtop.com.

Finally make sure you create an identity at,

Squidoo Forums

1. Rocking The Squid

Squidoo Lensmasters can promote their non-adult lenses here.

2. List of Do-Follow Forums!

Some of these forums that you can get backlinks from may be appropriate to promote Squidoo lenses.

3. Firestorm Forum

This forum has a Squidoo sub-forum where you can share your Squidoo lenses.

4. Forum Finder

This forum has a Squidoo sub-forum as well under ‘All other social networking’.

Now make more lens, and repeat! There is no limit placed on how many lens you develop, I recommend creating lens that only have between 3-5 articles very specific to the lens title and description. The more you create the further your network will expand, oh make sure you visit the Add your profile lens to connect with other lensmasters to create links within the lensmaster community!

Do you dare to squidoo?

Thank you for caring.





Tags: lens, marketing, Promotion, seo, Squidoo

Filed under:Squidoo

Taking competitive keyword analysis into your own hands

Posted October 15th, 2008 by reel

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Tags: Google, keyword, meta, search engine, seo

12 Ways to use Twitter efficiently

Posted October 14th, 2008 by admin

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Lightning promotion

Posted October 13th, 2008 by admin

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