IpsoJobs

We’ve been very busy in ipsojobs in the last weeks.

So busy that we don’t have time to post

Let us fire some facts:

• The traffic is growing steadily giving our administrators more ad cash every month.
• Alexa has changed the measuring system, taken us off the top 100.000 temporarily, now, we’re back and some days we’re reaching the top 50.000 mark, that’s great with the new system!
• We’ve opened Moscow and Sankt-Peterburg, in Russia and the city administrator of those cities has made the Russian translation of ipsojobs.com
• We’re starting to integrate broadbean offers in our site giving us a headstart in the UK market. We hope this agreement will start to give results in the following weeks.
• ipsojobs.com have reached the 11,000 active jobs mark, that’s a big milestone for us !
• We’ve done some minor SEO adjustments, basically putting the word “Jobs” or “Trabajos” in some important links, between cities and to the worldwide home page.
• At the technical level we’ve now two dedicated servers, one for the database and one for the frontend and this give us enough power to reach a 10-fold traffic grow.
• And we also added some anti-spam features to keep the quality of all the ipsojobs.com cities as good as always

More news to come
The ipsojobs.com team

Hi all,

we’ve improved the ipsojobs.com home page, showing the more active cities in a pretty “tag cloud”, every ipsojobs zone have it’s own metrics of what is relevant and decides the font-size depending on the current active job postings in the city relative to the area.

Here the first screenshot of the new home:

We pursue three objectives:

1. Promote the competence between the city managers in the same area
2. Save screen space, moving the inactive or less active cities to the bottom
3. Show most active cities with a premium size

Go to see the new home of ipsojobs.com NOW!

Last sunday was the 6 months half-aniversary of ipsojobs.com and we are very excited to share with all our managers, partners and users the good health of the site. We think that the following months will be better than the first 6 ones and we expect a high growth in traffic, cities and job offers all over the world.

Let’s see the numbers of the first 6 months, compared with the 3 months data in parenthesis:

Total number of published job offers: 14.709 (6.563)
Currently active job offers: 4.645 (2.395)
Average new job offers by day: 81,7 (72,9)
Active job sites (cities): 282 (219)
Number of city managers: 160 (149)
PageRank: 4 (4)
Alexa Ranking: 62.204 (56.540)
Partners: 8 (3)

Thanks to all our partners, city managers and users. You make ipsojobs.com a success job board site !

Our partners:

• indeed.com
• simplyhired.com
• sniptime.com
• recruit.net
• opcionempleo.com
• Synerquia.com
• trovit.es
• BuscoCanguro.com

Ipsojobs.com is proud to annunce the inclusion in the recruit.net search index.

Recruit.net is the leader in vertical job search in Australia, New Zealand, China, Malaysia, India, Japan and Singapore. This new vertical search engine integration will help Ipsojobs.com to be more popular in those areas.

We are receiving visitors from recruit.net since February the 19th (19/02/2008). Welcome all !

Ipsojobs.com is proud to annunce the inclusion in the sniptime search index.

Sniptime is one of the most important players in the job search market in Spain, this new vertical search engine integration will help Ipsojobs.com to be more popular and more relevant in the Spanish market.

We are receiving visitors from sniptime.com since February the 21th (21/02/2008). Welcome all !

Ipsojobs.com is proud to annunce the inclusion in the simplyhired search index.

SimplyHired is one of the most important players in the job search market in the US, this new vertical search engine integration will help Ipsojobs.com to be more popular and more relevant in the US market.

We are receiving visitors from simpyhired.com since February the 19th (19/02/2008). Welcome all !

Digg this!

If you’re into web development, you may have realized that you’re really working for google every day.

Let’s have a look to the different google-tasks performed by a typical webmaster:

1. Be kind to the Google search engine
2. Google Analytics
3. Google Maps
4. Google Adsense
5. Google Adwords

Let’s see in detail…

1. The Search engine, Google has changed the way developers create web sites, not any standard organism, not the W3C. From 3 years ago everybody is leaving the table based markup for the semantical XHTML/CSS based markup, only to try to be kind to the Google Spider.

We put nice title tags, nice urls, relevant titles in h1…hx and try to create lots of list of links with ul/lis combinations, yeah thats a standard but without Google maybe nobody would be using this.

2. Google Analytics, anybody are still using their own analytics software ? If you simply can add a tag to each page of your website and give your client a high level and visually attractive user interface, the option is Google Analytics, don’t lose time of your project setting-up the awful old-style log analyzers, creating cron jobs etc.

3. Google Maps, Would you create a custom map for each client to shown were he is located ? or what is worse, would you pay to mapping services to show geospatial data? I remember 6 years ago if you wanted a mapping service you must pay for it, google maps has changed that forever, not only is free, it has a very powerful API that is the wet dream of any programmer out there.

4. Adsense, used from bloggers to big media companies, you can start earning money in hours (given the approval process). I remember only 5 or 6 years ago, the advertising software was worth thousands of dollars, was installed in the big media company servers and serve image and flash banners. The companies struggle to have, not only their sites working, but their advertising servers up and running and serving the correct ads. The next step was to give the control to the advertising companies in a ASP model, but now, you simply put the tag of Google Adsense, and you are done, simply amazing and useful, and the way advertising is shown from image/flash to text based contextual ads is a trend created by Google itself.

5. Adwords, never in “history” has been so easy and fast to reach a global market in advertising. You don’t need to be an expert to create a marketing campaign, just give your keywords, what amount do you want to spend and your credit card, it’s simple and fast.

All that services and features are the real power of Google, it’s useful for professionals creating websites and very useful too for advanced internet users, broading the mind share it broads the user base.
I think this is a real strategy behind the company, to give away nice “toys” for “webmasters” and advanced users to create a broad base of early adopters.

For that reason and a lot more (webmaster tools, chart API, gmail for exchanging big files), we, web developers are working every day for google and we are not getting paid

Digg this!

Ipsojobs.com has been included in the indeed.com search index.

We’ve been in the queue of new partners of indeed.com for a while due to an encoding problem, but now we are already receiving traffic from this site.

Indeed.com is the leader in job search in the US, this vertical search engine will help Ipsojobs.com to be more popular and more relevant in the US market.

We are receiving visitors from indeed.com since last Friday (08/02/2008). Welcome all !

We’ve just launched a new API for all the developers/geocoders around de world.

As you may know Ipsojobs.com is a global job bank, fast easy and free for everybody !

The new API allows you to locate job offers near you, you only need to give us your latitude and longitude and we will return you a nice XML containing the nearest Ipsojobs cities and the last job postings in that city (if any).

You can see a couple of examples:
Jobs near Barcelona
Jobs near Madrid

As you may see in the examples the XML structure is quite simple:

<cities>
<city>
<home>URL of the Ipsojobs city home</home>
<rss> URL of the RSS of that city</rss>
<title>Title of the city, for example “Badalona, Spain”</title>
<current_posts>Number of posts active in that city</current_posts>
<lat>Latitude of the city</lat>
<lng>Longitud of the city</lng>
<posts>
<post>
<title>Title of the job posting</title>
<urlnice>URL of the job posting</urlnice>
</post>
…
</posts>
</city>
…
</cities>

You can use the API, just pointing to the URL http://www.ipsojobs.com/api/nearby.php with two parameters, lat and lng, as in this example.

http://www.ipsojobs.com/api/nearby.php?lat=40.416706&lng=-3.703270

If you think this API is nonsense, we’ve already our FIRST IMPLEMENTATION, check this site:

http://www.esofid.com/

This is an organization of “Language Schools” all around Spain, if you search in the top box, look for “Barcelona” for example, you will see all the “Official Language Schools in that area”, then if you click on one of them, you will see three tabs, the first are the basic info of the School, but the second contains a Panoramio’s picture integration and the Jobs near that location with the help of the API we’ve just launched, see the picture.

Nice, uh ?

Thanks to Raúl for the idea and the first integration !

We’ve just added an interesting new feature.

In order to increase the exposure of the job postings of a particular city, we have created the ‘Nearby cities‘ concept. Just below the ‘categories’ box, there’s a new section called ‘Nearby cities’ which shows the nearest cities given your current city selection. We’ve constrained the distance of nearby cities to 70 Km approximately.

So users have more options to discover easily good places to work near their city. If it’s good for users, it’s good for us!