Om Malik is a blogger who covers the technology industry. His blogs are read by thousands of devoted followers. The pressure to put out quality blog articles day-after-day may have caused him to have a heart attack. Or perhaps it was his chain smoking.

I don't want to make light of Om's serious medical issues or the causes thereof, but when I read about the situation I immediately thought of the countless other bloggers, including hiring managers and recruiters, who struggle to find something to write about each day, week, or even month. Others love to write but struggle to find an audience. Both groups will find not a total cure but certainly some immediately and long lasting relief from the Recruiting Blogswap, a free service from CollegeRecruiter.com.

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Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on January 8, 2008 at 6:07 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

One of the most frequently asked questions that I get from bloggers is where do I find the time to write as much as I do and where do I get all of the ideas to write about? Many and perhaps most bloggers struggle to find ideas and even if they have the right ideas they struggle to find the time to write the articles. So their blogs languish and may only be updated every few weeks. Blogs that are neglected like that tend not to generate loyal readers and don't rank as highly in the search engines as they could because they aren't as active and don't have as much content.

So where does a typical blogger get more ideas and more time? Rather than trying to find the ideas and time to write your own blog entries each and every time, why not allow guest writers to take some of the load off of your shoulders? By having guest writers, you'll get free career-related content for your blog and the more content you have, the more pages you create. The more pages you have, the more likely it is that you'll have the right keyword phrase that someone types into Google, Yahoo, MSN, or any of the search engines and that will generate free traffic for your site. But even if they don't go to that new page, web sites with more pages rank higher in the search results because the search engines believe that larger sites are more likely to have the information being sought by the people using the search engines.

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Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on December 21, 2007 at 6:21 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

Do you want to attract more visitors to your career site but don't have the budget for a big advertising or public relations campaign? No problem.

One of the most efficient and effective ways to attract highly targeted visitors to any web site is by increasing the number of visitors who find you in the organic (free) results of search engines such as Google and Yahoo. But how do you increase the number of those visitors? Make your web site come up higher in the results so more of your targeted visitors will see your site and click through. Two of the best ways of making your site come up higher in the search results are to add more content to your site and to increase the number of links to your site.

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Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on December 6, 2007 at 7:50 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

When it comes to motivating a hiring manager or internal recruiter to move on your submittal, remember the catchy saying….”Time kills all deals”.

One of the most frustrating things to a recruiter is the lag time between finding and submitting a good candidate and getting meaningful feedback through the screening process. Think about it: how often have you taken a request for talent and spent weeks doing the sourcing, pre-screening, preparing and presenting your candidate’s case? Now comes the exciting part, right? Your hiring manger or internal recruiter calls you right away, excited about your candidate and asks when they can come in for an interview. Yeah, right!

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Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on May 14, 2007 at 6:00 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

Jason Davis of Recruiting.com recently launched a new web site, RecruitingBlogs.com. For those who have been looking for an at-a-glance look at the newest content in the recruiting blogosphere, RecruitingBlogs.com is a great, new destination. Making RecruitingBlogs.com even better is that it features links to the newest blog articles posted through the free career and recruiting content exchange program, the CollegeRecruiter.com Recruiting.com Blogswap.

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Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on March 7, 2007 at 11:28 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

Over the past few days, there's been some talk in the recruiting blogosphere by highly respected experts such as Joel Cheesman and John Sumser about the value of blogging. Even though I feel that CollegeRecruiter.com is still feeling its way through this ever changing landscape, I was honored to see that both chose to praise our efforts.

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Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on February 26, 2007 at 5:45 PM | Leave a Comment (0)

CEOs have many responsibilities and one of them is to influence company culture. Company culture affects everything from employee morale to the extent which internal controls are emphasized. In a post-Enron world in which Sarbanes-Oxley has become ever more important, it is increasingly important for top executives to communicate the importance of internal controls to employees. So, how can you, a busy CEO/CFO/CIO, mold your company culture in such a way that internal controls (and other important issues) become woven into the fabric of your company's culture?

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Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on February 18, 2007 at 8:13 PM | Leave a Comment (0)

Recruiting.com and CollegeRecruiter.com are quite happy with the CollegeRecruiter.com Recruiting.com Blogswap free recruiting article exchange program but very few things in life are perfect (the movie Slapshot is one of them) so you'll probably agree that there's room for improvement with the Blogswap. Two of those improvements just went live:

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Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on January 29, 2007 at 8:34 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

One of the 45 authors and publishers of the CollegeRecruiter.com Recruiting.com Blogswap free article / content exchange program asked us to create some banners to help them get the word out to even more members. The more authors, the more career-related articles which will be sent for free to publishers so they'll have more content on their sites and their sites will therefore come up higher in the search engine results. The more publishers, the more links from the more sites for the authors, which is great for search engine marketing.

Are you a Blogswap member? If so, feel free to grab one or more of the banners and add it to the template of your blog so that more authors and publishers will join our growing group.

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Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on January 4, 2007 at 5:43 PM | Leave a Comment (0)

The CollegeRecruiter.com Recruiting.com Blogswap is off to a great start. Participants can either be authors, publishers, or both. But what is the CollegeRecruiter.com Recruiting.com Blogswap? Well, it's really two tools in one...

If you're a blog or website "author", then it is a tool to spread the word about your blog or website and your content. Some people refer to this type of a tool as an article submission service. By offering your originally authored articles to blog and website "publishers" you gain a much wider audience for your work, greater recognition for your blog or website, valuable links back to your site, and higher search engine rankings because of those links.

If you're a blog or website "publisher", then you get free content. You will have the choice of keeping an article and publishing it or, if the article isn't a good fit for your site, you may return it and wait until you receive an article that is a better fit for your website. By adding more content to your site, your site becomes deeper and richer. It is more likely that your target audience will find your site when they run searches at Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and the other search engines. In addition, the search engines will recognize that your site has more pages and sites with more pages are ranked higher in the search results.

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Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on December 15, 2006 at 7:11 AM | Leave a Comment (0)