The Big 4 Recruitment Sites on Google.co.uk Search for ‘Recruitment’
Recruitment SEO is a must for companies competing to get a good spot on the Big G.
The need for recruitment SEO strategies is more demanding the last few years as more web users rely on google for most of their Internet searches - and yes, there are now more and more web users looking for careers online.
A look at the search results trends for the keyword ‘recruitment‘ shows something of interest. The major job boards like monster.co.uk and jobsite.co.uk did not take the first place (as at June 16th 2008).
How long that has been, I do not know. Although google does change their algorithm once in a while.
The top recruitment site on the number 1 spot is reed.co.uk. Also of note is that hays.com and michaelpage.co.uk, which are more of recruitment consultancies than recruitment job boards also took the 2nd and 3rd spot respectively. jobsite.co.uk is in the 4th position.
This ranking may not be connected with the investment on recruitment SEO by these companies. I will retract the statement in case they all decide to make public their actual budget on recruitment SEO.
However, it might be the big G’s way of allocating spots based on its own discretion - afterall, many things in business is based on who knows who where, when and how.