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One inescapable reality of the SEM industry is that finding great employees is a challenge, even if one knows precisely where to look. Mainstream and niche job sites, specialized SEM job boards, trade organizations and word of mouth are common channels for recruiting. However with demand growing sometimes it’s necessary to get creative in recruitment efforts.

Whether seeking employees in-house or for an agency, as offline channels continue to fold into the ‘net at a dizzying pace, finding incredibly smart staffers to service growing task lists can be a problem in this competitive environment.

Here’s a 24 point list of of SEM/SEO recruitment channels and ideas, including classics and a few off-the-beaten-path sources with which aimClear and our partner agencies have had some luck. They’re not listed in any particular order of importance:

SEW Job Board
Free for SEM job seekers, employers pay between $375.00 and $4750.00 (multi-post packages). SearchEngineWatch is an important SEM industry player and parent of the ubiquitous SearchEngineStrategies conference series. There are many cross-over users who come from more traditional marketing industries and mainstream businesses.

Marketing Pilgrim Job Board
Free for SEM job Seekers, posting costs employers $57.00 for 30 days. Andy Beal’s audience is all about reputation management, natural search and his audience is comprised of well respected industry players and up-and-comers.

StuntDubl Job Board
Free for SEM Job Seekers, posting costs employers $30.00 for 30 days. Todd Malicoat is well known on the SES, SMX and major trade publication circuit. His blog is frequented by industry insiders and newbies alike.

SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professionals) Job Board
Free for SEM job seekers, posting reserved form members @ the $1000.00 annual level and above. SEMPO is as close as the SEM community gets to a consensus trade organization. They also offer training programs for SEM types.

Marketing Sherpa Job Board
Free for SEM job seekers, free for employers to post. MarketingSherpa is a case study research team surrounded by some of the industries brightest minds. Advertising to this community may serve your needs.

SEOMoz Job & Contract Position Listings
Free for SEM Job seekers, Join SEOmoz to build your company profile and post jobs. Rand Fishkin’s venerable SEOmoz is the gold standard for "street cred" and his recommendations mean a lot. Marketplace, an SEO services directory, is a very sweet resource.

Miami Ad School
This ad, design & and account planning school turns out cool copywriter-specialists focused on branding across multiple channels including interactive. Miami Ad School trains promising graduates of other design/marketing colleges, professionals in other fields (like lawyers and accountants) and helps designers build "books" (portfolios). With locations Miami, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Hamburg, Madrid and Sao Paulo the placement department emails job listings to all current and previous graduates around the world-at no charge to the employer.

OASEO
An "SEO Job Community," OASEO is free for SEM Job seekers, posting costs employers $99.00 for 30 days.

ProBlogger Job Board
Free for SEM Job seekers, posting costs employers $50.00 for 30 days. This site is especially strong for recruiting writers who are blog savvy and understand the game.

SEOBook Job Board
Free for job seekers, free for employers. Aaron Wall is one of SEOs pioneers and the blog remains tremendously popular. SEOBook attracts a large audience of SEM insiders and other potential employees crossing over from other industries.

SEM Jobs @ Monster.com
Interestingly enough, Google allows this hardwired search result to index. Everyone in the HR world knows about Monster. See site for pricing details.

Jobster hardwired SEO jobs search result. See site for pricing details

Harry Joiner – Marketing Headhunter
A dominant recruiter in multi-channel client side e-commerce space and a player in the SEM recruiting trades.

Cii Associates – SEO recruiter in Raleigh-Durham
A regionally focused SEM recruiting firm. The Raleigh-Durham IT market is hot and these folks are local.

Onward Search
Recruiting, staffing and temporary contract, temp-to-hire and direct-hire placements at search marketing agencies, & advertising firms. Check out VP Josh Gampel’s LinkedIn profile and meet a power player in the SEM recruitment field.

Most college graduates these days are plugged into the social Internet and can use basic office tools. Journalism majors seem to excel @ SEO and social media, accountant school grad’s are natural PPC wizards and don’t forget to check out he marketing club of your local university’s Facebook group.

English teachers are wired for keyword research and traditional media buyers (like the ones getting laid off from local network affiliates) can be terrific at account planning and media seller.

Find an Associate degree IT grad‘ who’s freakish about blogging and APIs and keep in mind that Paralegals make awesome SEOs. Here’s the best tip of all: Musicians make fabulous SEOs and link builders.

There’s tons of demand out there for SEM and SEO employees from office helper to executive. Hopefully these resources provide a good starting place for your company in growing your department or agency. Please feel free to join in and suggest any additional recruitment channels by commenting.

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In what may be the ultimate use of social media, Adam Audette - or just audette on Twitter - is twittering the birth of his child. Live from the hospital are messages on the stages of the process.

We are being brought along for the ride as it starts:

It’s on! Heading to the hospital w/ an extra car seat in the back. I’ll update when we’re checked in

http://twitpic.com/14vs <- Our room at the birthing center

WE EVEN GET PICTURES

http://twitpic.com/14vw <- Sally feeling good!

Sally is 6 centimeters dilated. Hooked to pitocin and ramping up

Now we are getting details! It is great reading… stream of consciousness texting - almost like a James Joyce novel. One wonders how some of our experimental writers would have delivered their art with all the media available today to use.

Adam and Sally I wish you all the best and guess I will be following this one - even on my phone while I am at dinner later - to its happy conclusion.

PS: My vote is for Sophia.

The UK will roll out a new set of advertising and marketing regulations May 28th. The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 include some interesting laws that will impact web marketing as Judith Lewis of London-based SEO Chicks reports.

The big law many SEO marketers may have to be careful about is the use of flogs - fake blogs or reviews by employees or other profit motivated people. Without disclosing that these reviews etc are being posted by motivated writers can end up being legally dangerous.

Apart from the fines involved there is also the possibility of jail time. How that would work for a US based company that happens to find themselves in UK search results is yet to be determined. What about companies that are global marketers, will they need to filter what content is sent to UK traffic?

This could be a major impact on web marketing and how things play out should be watched closely by all global marketers.

The title tag is one of the most important pieces of content when it comes to search engine optimization. There are two reasons why:

1. It’s the first thing searchers will see when they scour results on a search engine
2. Search engine spiders tend to give some weight to title tags for indexing purposes

Title tags might be difficult for some copywriters to embrace because there’s such a short amount of space to work with. But there’s tremendous opportunity here to drive visitors to the web site you’re optimizing and here are some tricks to get the job done.

Blend Keywords

Let’s say you need to cram “boys bedding” and “baseball bedding” into the same title tag, as well as include the company name. You can combine the two keyword phrases into one phrase. Try “boys’ baseball bedding” or “Baseball bedding for boys.”

Company Name Placement

Unless you’re keyword is the company name, the brand name should always go at the end. If a searcher is looking for “baseball bedding” – then you want that term to come as close to the beginning of the title tag as possible. The first words of the title tag should match the searchers words as much as possible. Companies resist this tactic, but it’s good for usability and some would argue it’s good for search engine placement as well. So, now our title tag looks like “Boys’ baseball bedding at Company Name.”

Calls to Action

Incorporating a call to action into your title tag is a great way to help searchers know what to do next. You know this because you place calls to action in your copy. Now, use this tried and true tactic in your title tags.

Following along our bedding theme, possible title tags could be:

1. “Boys’ baseball bedding now 15% off at Company Name.”
2. “Great deals on boys’ baseball bedding at Company Name.”
3. “Durable boys baseball bedding at Company Name.”

As you can see, incorporating a call to action with blended keywords can help your title tag stand out from all the other search results, which is especially useful in a competitive niche.

If you’re just starting out, or only have limited time to devote to on-page SEO, then writing good title tags is a great place to start. Don’t overlook this opportunity to both tell search engines what your page is about, and to communicate directly to searchers as they scan the search results page.

For more on Title Tags, check out:

HTML Title Tag Defines Your SEO Strategy
Meta Tags As Persuasive Content