In what has become a very saturated online career’s market, is there a clear leader among the well known jobs website – Seek, MyCareer and CareerOne? Speaking to various recruitment agencies, Seek would be the one to go with. Apparently, consensus is, no matter where you list a job, make sure you include Seek.

Looking at the following chart which shows a one-year history of traffic data, there clearly is a market leader:

Source: Google

Seek convincingly has the lion’s share of the online recruitment market and would perhaps confirm the practice of recruitment agencies  to list on Seek for the greatest exposure as correct.

It’s freezing cold there & I didn’t get much time writing here.

Baidu, China’s biggest search engine, is used almost by everyone I met there. Google is only used by some expats & foreigners.

I’ve thought about investing in Baidu but decided against it. I did, however, do a bit of research into how websites can optimize their pages for Baidu. I’ll post some more info here when I do some more research into it.

I did hear about Microsoft’s hostile takeover bid for Yahoo! but didn’t hear much about it onwards. If someone can shead some light on whether there’s been activity since, please post a comment here.

I bought off seo-sydney.net.au not too long ago (all the other better domain names were taken!) which I’m just aging for Google. Instead of parking the domain, I thought, heck, why not put something there. If you go through all the results for “seo sydney” in Google, you’ll see that it’s pretty saturated. There’s a lot of competition & any new contestants will just have to be patient. A year or so plus work plus money will just about do the job, I’d say.

Okay, now I’ve received a lot of emails on the topic of obtaining a job as an SEO in Sydney. I thought I mentioned this in a previous post but I’ll say it again. For those of you that are overseas & you’re thinking about getting into this industry, be warned, it’s nowhere near as lucrative as it used to be as there are plenty of SEOs to go around. That said, there’s still a demand for the right person with the right experience as with any job. Head to mycareer.com.au to find them.

How lucrative was the SEO trade? About $200,000 a year. A friend of mine here did $500/page optimized for a company (listed) that wanted over 100 pages optimized. I doubt you can still earn that much now.

I think salaries are at around $60,000-$100,000 on average a year now depending on experience. I stand to be corrected on this. I personally prefer to do freelance & it seems quite a few in this industry have the same preference.

You can find expiring domains as well with this tool.

View top picks or use the filters to search for DMOZ and Yahoo! Directory listed domains.

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DropScout — high PageRank domains.

When you are in search of web host you can go online and click for web host search. Search engines like yahoo are well equipped with yahoo hosting. Web hosting companies like ipowerweb and startlogic are good companies for this purpose. When you think to find web host you should opt to design and host your site. You can look for a cheap hosting site to assess your challenges.

Static pages are your best bet if you’re optimizing for any/all of the major search engines.

On the grad jobs website, the accounting jobs category page would be http://graduatejobsnet.com.au/index.php?id=4123 or some other random number the search engine wouldn’t get much meaning from just by looking at the URL.

After making it a static page, it now reads: http://graduatejobsnet.com.au/category/accountingjobs.html

Looks better already, doesn’t it?

So how do you get started on converting your dynamic pages? You can get started by searching the mod_rewrite function or take a look here.

Templates make your life easy when you are writing something and you need to copy something best though and written. Same is the case with web templates. When you design your cv for job, cv template works wonder for you. Your own website needs flash templates. You can look online web template examples. Some websites offer web template guide.

I mentioned on a previous post how Google values .edu more for being “trusted”..

It appears that a commercial website has taken hold of a .edu domain to sell ringtones!

Google appears to have picked up on the spam though

Surfers and searchers sitting all time at their computers love to have internet phone service. Many online companies provide voip phone and vonage is one of them. People online from different parts of world can conduct voip conference. Online queries through internet voip enhance your business.