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Acquired MovingWork.com domain

Took a page out of Peter's (askew.org) book and purchased a premium domain to build a business around.

I don't have any sort of goals or aspirations for this, I just happen to have fun building projects. Though, it would be cool to be able to pay some living expenses with revenues deriving from MovingWork.com.

MovingWork.com will become the go-to job board for moving company employment.

I'll use a custom WordPress theme and Stripe (through WP Simple Pay) for this site.

OK easy part over. Time to build...

, Founder of Icon for MovingWork.com
MovingWork.com
on July 20, 2021
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    I like the idea! And the fact that you started a blog and working on content marketing.

    Just a few recommendations

    • One of the great things about job boards is that they provide user-generated content, so you can optimize your pages for long-tail keywords like "Moving jobs in California", "Moving jobs in NY", etc.. without creating the content yourself.
      For now, at least the title of your subpages is not optimized well, when I open "California", it is saying "MovingWork.com | California Archives - MovingWork.com", but having something like "Moving jobs in California - MovingWork.com" can be more SEO friendly and clickable.

    • I see your job board is not integrated with Google Jobs as of now. I would recommend adding google jobs since it can bring additional traffic.

    • One of the ways that you can promote the job board is by just finding local FB groups where people might be interested in moving work and post your job links from time to time. This might position your job board as the go-to place for moving jobs. Again the magic of user-generated content takes nothing from you to generate the content :)

    • Last but not least, most of your sub-location pages are empty as of now, which can affect the SEO, since Google will think it's a broken 404 page without a proper HTTP status. I would recommend adding some kind of jobs backfill, that will import jobs automatically when there are not enough original job postings. So your pages will not be empty, at least till the time that your job board gets popular and you have a lot of job posts from employers.

    Good luck with the project!

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      Marty! I appreciate this well-thought-out response. It's hugely helpful and I'm working on these adjustments right now.

      BTW, I just tried subbing to Jboard newsletter but got this error:

      "Too many subscribe attempts for this email address. Please try again in about 5 minutes. (#8661)"

      Tried with a different email, same thing.

      Thanks again!

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        Thank you @nickvisme, the newsletter issue is fixed.

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