linkup.com Gains usajobs.gov Access
October 18, 2010 by Alice Allan
US-based jobs search engine linkup.com has completed what it describes as “seemingly endless” negotiations to finally gain access to the listings on usajobs.gov.
In its October newsletter, linkup.com says the Department of Labor contracts with Monster Worldwide to operate usajobs.gov, and that Monster has prevented search engines from including these jobs in their indexes.
“I’m not surprised Monster blocks search engines since [Monster] stands to make more money by selling posts on monster.com,” linkup.com quotes an “industry insider” as saying. “By blocking search engines, the government jobs aren’t going to get into organic search results except through monster.com.”
Now it has gained access to usajobs.gov, linkup.com says it will include job listings from 341 different divisions of the federal government.
“We’re still working on getting 100 percent of each job listing,” says linkup.com’s Eric Caron, “but this is a tremendous stepping stone in our goal to have every job in the US on our site.”
linkup.com concludes that the inclusion of usajobs.gov’s listings in its search engine means that discussions with a number of federal agencies regarding paid search campaigns can finally resume.
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