Making Money from your Blog Part 4 Job-a-matic
Monetize your blog week continues at Personal Blog Income with something a little different, Job-a-matic. The premise is that your blog attracts a certain audience whether it be techies for technical blogs or crafties for a craft blog. Employers are constantly looking for ways to reach their likely candidates while job seekers are in turn looking for job opportunities. With Job-a-matic you can put a job board where where the two meet, your blog. The service itself is backed by Simply Hired, a large jobs classified search engine.
How it works for you is simple. Job-a-matic allows you to create your own jobs board free of the need to install any software. You can solicit job ads via your website and you can set the price for each job lisiting you sell. If you have a highly targeted audience then it is likely you can can command a higher price from employers looking to reach them. The price itself is set by you and you get 50% of the asking price from Simply Hired. In addition, any listings you get are also seen accross the Simply Hired Network meaing greater visability for the clients.
get your job site
at simplyhired.com
To supplement your own ads, you can also display ads from the Simply Hired database so that your job board is always full and you get paid for clicks on paid job listings. In this case you get 30% of the total click price (which generally ranges from 30 to 60 cents).
Signing up was easy and i had created my own job board within 5 minutes at jobs.personalblogincome.com.au with my price set. The header, footer and colors of the job board are fully customizeable along with the ability to import your own logo and you have the choice of either using your own domain or their domain with yours in front (in my case it is personalblogincome.jobamatic.com as the technicalities of adding my name was beyond me. In addition Typepad users have the option of importing their template directly into their job board. You can also control the categories of jobs (technical, executive, etc) and the regions that the positions are located in (USA only).
For your website there are widgets to promote the listed jobs in the dashboard and includes code for Typepad, Blogger, WordPress.com, WordPress (self hosted version), moveable type and also for others.
Other features of interest is that there is a section that will create a large selection of banners for use on your site. For the statistics junkies, reporting details which lets you know all the vital stats and for Feedburner users you can also add a feed flare to your feed with “View my jobs” that links directly to your jobs page.
My advice is that while anyone can join, its likely to only succeed on high traffic niche type blogs. For smaller blogs by all means add it but its not necessarily going to make a lot of money. Find out more at Job-a-matic.
