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Launch of New Simply Hired Publisher Support Center

Today, Simply Hired launched a new customer support center at support.simplyhired.com. Here you will find the answers to all of your Simply Hired questions, and can find answers to your specific publisher questions at http://support.jobamatic.com.

A few areas we’d like to highlight:

Search Box: Here you can search for answers based on keywords you enter. Want to learn how to tweet your job postings? Need help customizing your header? Have a payment question? After entering your query, all relevant results will be listed.

 

Submit a Request: Still can’t find your answer? You can submit a request at the top of the support page. Describe the issue you’re experiencing and give us your contact information, and you will be contacted directly by a member of our staff.

Please note that if you would like to track a support ticket, you will need to sign up for an account on the Simply Hired Support Center. Your Job-a-matic login will not work in the support center.

 

What do you think of the new Simply Hired Publisher Support Center? Please give us your feedback in the comments!

Publisher Help Center Revamp – Give Us Your Feedback!

We’re currently revamping the Publisher Help Center (currently at http://support.jobamatic.com) to better meet the needs of our publishers. But we want to hear feedback from our publishers about the sections that will be included. So, suggest new sections that we haven’t covered, or highlight sections where you’d like to see more information.

Currently, the Help Center is broken up into seven sections:

• Account Basics (Account, Job Posting, Payment & Domain Names)
• Job-a-matic (Customization & Backfill)
• International (Publishers & Job Content)
• Other Opportunities (Mobile, Twitter, Email, Link Exchange, Resume & Advertising)
• Widgets (Contextual Widgets & Displaying Job Content)
• Job Search (Search Simply Hired from your site)
• XML API (Implementation)

What other sections or general topics would you like included in the new Help Center? Comment below to give us your feedback!

Terms to Learn – Simply Hired Publisher Glossary

We briefly mentioned it in the last blog post announcing the Simply Hired Help Center, but it’s so cool we’re giving it a dedicated post: We now have a glossary of important publisher terms! This glossary was created to help you understand and properly use our publisher lingo (which is much like leetspeak - ph34r t3h 1337 skillz!!11!!). We’ll be continually adding content, so leave us a comment if you come across an ambiguous word that we should include.

Here are a couple of the super-important words and definitions:

Backfill - Job content gathered by Simply Hired (both Sponsored and Organic) that supplements the direct job postings in Job-a-matic or on a publisher's own site.

C-NAME (Canonical Name record) - Name record in the Domain Name System that specifically identifies if a domain name is an alias of another domain name.

eCPM - Calculation of the earnings per thousand sponsored jobs shown.

Organic Jobs - This is all the job content which we have gathered which is not sponsored by an advertiser but is still available for our users to see.

XML API - A feed of data which offers our developers underlying job search results to create more customized integrations, but does not offer functionality for the dynamic filtering or categorization of jobs (this can be found in the Job-a-matic).

Check out the rest of the publisher terms in the Publisher Glossary

Simply Hired's Publisher Help Center

It's finally here! We are now able to better support our publisher needs with our newly launched Publisher Help Center! This new help center is filled with informative content to answer any question you may have about any of Simply Hired's publisher opportunities.

Currently, there are seven areas within the help center:

• Account Basics - Learn how to make any adjustments to your overall account settings.
• Job-a-matic® - Job-a-matic is a free instant job board. Here you can learn how to customize your job board, display jobs and host your job board.
• International - Bringing job content to users outside the United States is important to the Simply Hired team. Find the answers to any questions about adding international job content to your site.
• Widgets - Widgets allow you to bring a snapshot of relevant job content to different areas of your site. Having trouble customizing or adding a widget? This is the place for you!
• Job Search - A Job Search Box lets your users search Simply Hired from your own site.
• XML API - Want more flexibility? Our XML API gives publishers the ability to use our data outside the limits of our Job-a-matic software.
• Other Opportunities - Info regarding email, Twitter, mobile, link exchanges, resumes and advertising.

If you're looking for an answer, but not sure what category it would fall under, you can also use the search box at the top right to enter keywords for what you're looking for. In addition, on the left navigation you will also find a Resources section with links to the Job-a-matic site, the Job-a-matic blog, our nifty network logo, and publisher terms and conditions. In addition, (since we have a tendency to use jargon), this resources section includes a glossary of useful terms to learn and know (eCPM? Backfill?). If we use an ambiguous word that's not in the glossary already, comment on this blog post and we’ll add it in. This is an ever expanding lexicon of Job-a-matic-related terms!

We hope for the Publisher Help Center to become a resource and go-to place for anyone looking for more information about Simply Hired's publisher programs. Help awaits!

Multi-Language Job Search Box

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Hey folks, just wanted to make a clarification. In a previous post we highlighted that we have a job search box available to include on your site for English-language localized sites. However, this job search box is actually available in all countries in which we have a presence.

To add the job search box to your site, first begin at the localized Simply Hired site for the country you’d like to allow your users to search for jobs (we’re using Simply Hired Switzerland as an example). Click the link to “Add jobs to your site” and then follow the link for the “Job Search Box” in the left-side navigation under For Publishers.

On the job search box page, you will find two job search box options. One is a wider job search box, and the other is a stacked, narrower search box. Both will give visitors to your site access to millions of jobs in Simply Hired’s database.

To add a widget to your site, just copy and past the HTML code provided into your page. Quick and simple!

Multi-Language Job Search Widgets Now Available

We just launched multi-language widgets for all countries that Simply Hired has a presence in! Publishers who want to add job listings from any of our localized job search sites can now add customizable, contextual job widgets onto their own site. Not only will your users appreciate the relevant job listings alongside your content, but you can feel comfortable knowing that the widget can be customized to match the look and feel of your site.

You can adjust and add the multi-language widget to your site the same way as you would a contextual widget. First, navigate to the Simply Hired site for the country from which you would like to include job listings (in our example we’ll use Simply Hired Netherlands). Next, click the ‘Add jobs to your site’ link. Then, click the ‘Job Search Widget’ link.

Once on the widget page, you can adjust the job content displayed in the widget by entering your keywords and a location into the appropriate fields. You may also change the colors of the widget, including the outline, background and text colors, and can include a link to all jobs that match that query, as well as a search box for users to perform their own job search.

(Note: Links are translated from the localized language on each country’s site for the purpose of this post.)

Simply Hired Announces New Tools for International Publishers

Last Friday, Simply Hired released an announcement about our rapid international growth, as well as new publisher tools that allow Web developers to include relevant job content and job search capabilities on their sites. Since October 2008, Simply Hired has launched localized job search sites in 17 international markets and today serves over 2.2 million job seekers outside the US on five continents and in nine languages.

The release also announced that job widgets and job search boxes are now also available for all English-language localized sites, which include the U.S., the U.K., Canada, India and Australia. The free job widget and job search box enables Web publishers to offer their visitors highly relevant job content and search capabilities on their websites using Simply Hired job content data. The job widgets may be individually customized, allowing you to display jobs that are relevant to your particular articles or posts.

To add job widget or job search box to your site, click the publisher link from any English-language site. For example, from the Simply Hired U.K. site:

Once on the U.K. Publisher page, you will notice in the left-hand side navigation, links to the Job Search Box and Job Search Widget.

To implement the job search box or job widget, just customize the search terms and copy and paste the html provided into your page or article. Note that there is no monetization for either of these tools at this time.

Stay tuned for updates! A multi-language version of the job search widget is expected by the end of the year.

Developer API Now Available!

Free at last! We are pleased to announce free and open access to our Job Search XML API in the US and abroad. This gives you the capability to render job search results in real-time on your website. The API requires advanced web development skills to implement, but it's an excellent way to build more custom job search sites or add backfill jobs to other job board platforms.

Is the XML API right for me?

Our XML API requires more technical skills than our Job-a-matic® board. To determine if this is an appropriate option for you, ask yourself the following questions:

1.   Have you tried customizing your Job-a-matic using the header and footer fields? Do you need a more customized solution? If yes, the XML API may be appropriate for you.

2.   Do you have the technical background or a technical team to parse and render XML? If yes, you are a good candidate to use the XML API.

How do I implement it?

For access to our XML API, please log in to your Job-a-matic account and visit the 'Advanced' tab where you will find the technical documentation for your engineering team.

Please note that we do not provide technical support for the XML API at this time. For technical assistance, we recommend finding freelance developers at Elance or oDesk.

Job-a-matic goes International!

We have also enabled the capability to use the XML API for job content outside of the US.

• To see a listing of the countries where you can use the XML API, select the drop down menu on the right hand side of the XML API page.
• Although we have international results, please note that we only provide job content and do not offer posting or monetization opportunities on non-US content.

We are excited by what new opportunities the XML API presents and the success it will bring to your website!

 

Introducing… Partner Badges

You asked for it, and we answered! Due to a multitude of requests, we have created a snazzy new badge for you to display on your site that represents your connection to Simply Hired as a member of our partner network. By displaying this badge, you indicate that your jobs are syndicated to SimplyHired.com and throughout the Simply Hired network of 5,000+ partner sites.

It’s easy for you to get the badge! Just drop the HTML provided on the Simply Hired Badge page into your site.

With the addition of this badge to our resources, we request that you please remove any other Simply Hired partner references or logos.

Simply Hired's Jazzy New Job Widgets

Simply Hired just launched a new set of Job-a-matic® job widgets to help your site shine! If you don't already have a job widget (and why don’t you?), it is an excellent way to help drive traffic to your job channel. The greatest benefit is that especially in the current economic climate, job content is typically viewed as value-added information rather than advertising. 

I already use a Job-a-matic widget. How are these different?

The new set of job widgets contain richer features and offer more styling options:

1. Search - An overwhelming number of people have asked for widget search capabilities. It's here! With these new widgets, you have the option to include a job search box. (Note: Your Job-a-matic must be in 'Job search' mode to use this widget. To change modes click here.)
2. Make it relevant - Did you write an article for experienced rock climbers? Why not put job postings for rock climbing instructors right next to it? The new widgets can be made keyword specific so that the jobs displayed match content on the page. With one Job-a-matic account you can make multiple widgets targeted for different areas of your site.
3. More room to sparkle - Like color in your life rather than living in grayscale? With these widgets you have the capability to change the colors to something that matches your website’s look and feel, or to make them stand out.

Need help or have questions? Leave us a comment below.