Job Search Script Perfect For Parked Domains
I bought a review copy of this script for a domain I had been holding onto, http://www.EmploymentAgency.cc/. In return for a price discount, here is my review:
Installation:
This is one of the easier scripts to install. There is no database, the script pulls job listings from Indeed.com under your partner ID. You will need to get one and then change the ID to be yours. You will also have to add your AdSense code to the search results page. And there is an "advanced search" page that also needs to have to code changed.
I didn't see any mention of what changes are needed and there is no "readme" file that I could see. You almost don't need one, but it would be very helpful for newbies to cover all the basic steps, or better yet, use a config file so you can just make changes in one place for the entire site. After I install the script it didn't work, and once I worked through some things and exchanged several emails with the developer it was decided that I was not running PHP5 that this script needs. Lucky for me a quick addition of an Apache Handler for PHP instantly fixed it. The problem was not clear, because the error message had talked about an unexpected character or something that seemed fine...
I'm going to include here that one you have the site working you may want to customize it. The site logo says "Indeed", and the meta tags all say things about Indeed and Indian job searches. The footer also seems to promote the script rather than be relating to my site. I don't even know if I can remove the link to the developer's site, but I left it in place for now.
The Indeed partner ID is important, because if you register and get one you have the chance to earn some kind of commission from Indeed. There are a lot of job sites you can pull or scrape listings from, but I don't know of any others that say they will pay you.
So if you don't have any problems, the basic install will be 5-10 minutes. Average customization could take you an hour. In my case I changed the logo, added meta tags, and added dynamic SEO to the title and description tags. And also a little more the page.
Negative Notes:
No documentation to speak of. This is minor since the script is so easy to use. But creating a read me with information about configuration and requirements like PHP5 would save user frustration and developer support time. There were some delays in communications, but not too bad. And they did offer to use FTP to troubleshoot and get it running for me.
The search results page does not have a link back to the home page, unless I missed it. Maybe this is not needed, but I prefer to have it so I added a home page link to the logo.
The single license of price $60 is too high, in my opinion. $35 is better, but I think this script should be sold in the $15-30 range. There's not too much too it and the support needed should be little to nothing as things are documented. I also say this because this is not a site, with a number of pages and a variety of content.
Positive Notes:
The home page is very clean. I made a replacement logo for the site and the home page still looks ok. Later I may add a better logo. I'm tempted to add some text near the bottom of the home page for SEO purposes, but for now I will just leave it as it is. I would like to add a list of the last 10 search queries or something, but that will have to wait. I'm happy with the design and function.
The search results page is great. If you look at my site I have modified if from the default in a few ways:
- Changed Google ads from black to white, moved up the page one line, added logo to the left side (if the logo appears on top of the ads your screen width is too narrow. I may add a table to fix that). And the top Google ads can be text or image ads. But for the two sky scraper ads on the right and left, I specified that they would both be image ads. I did this because the top is mostly text ads, and since the site has no images except the logo, the image ads add images to make the site more interesting, I think. And for a site about job search there should be a LOT of image ads for this topic.
The job listings are pretty nice. Very relevant and easy to read. If the listings pay me, that means that almost every link on this site should earn me money. That's nice compared with other sites were perhaps only have the links have earning potential. If I can set a default location and make the results page the home page, I might try this script on one of the local job domains that I have.
If you have job search traffic to your domain you should make some money, but how much remains to be seen. Our domain has a PageRank 2 that it got while parked and we'll have to wait and see if it keeps that or it goes up or down.
Summary:
This is a great script if you are looking for something to throw on a employment or job domain in place of a parking page. The asking price is somewhat high in my opinion given the limitations mentioned above, but most customers should be happy with it.
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