Veterans Job Board Comparison Test: Who is the Best?

January 25, 2010 by John Allen · 2 Comments

Job Boards for U.S. Veterans Get Net Evaluated

VeteransToday.com puts the Job Sites to the Test

As the veterans community increases from America’s prolonged conflicts around the world, so does its need to find jobs. As a result, there has been a plethora of job boards launched to meet the new market demand. Most of the job boards on the net, while noble, are not productive. They are not actively marketed and designed poorly. However, there are a handful of professional sites run by world class management that are producing results. At VeteransToday.com, we wanted to check on these sites and rate them from a net perspective to see how they pan out using independent tests.

We rated the top 7 sites. Before we present the results, let’s define a few terms so that we’re all on the same page as we make our analyis and conclusions. Ok, here we go!

LINK POPULARITY

Link popularity is a measure of the quantity and quality of other web sites that link to a specific site on the World Wide Web. It is an example of the move by search engines towards off-the-page-criteria to determine quality content. In theory, off-the-page-criteria adds the aspect of impartiality to search engine rankings.

Link popularity plays an important role in the visibility of a web site among the top of the search results. Indeed, some search engines require at least one or more links coming to a web site, otherwise they will drop it from their index.

Search engines such as Google use a special link analysis system to rank web pages. Citations from other WWW authors help to define a site’s reputation. The philosophy of link popularity is that important sites will attract many links. Content-poor sites will have difficulty attracting any links. Link popularity assumes that not all incoming links are equal, as an inbound link from a major directory carries more weight than an inbound link from an obscure personal home page. In other words, the quality of incoming links counts more than sheer numbers of them.

SEARCH ENGINE SATURATION

Search Engine Saturation simply refers to the number of pages a given search engine has in its index for your website domain. Not all search engines report this information but enough of them do to create some meaningful benchmarks for your search engine marketing campaigns.

	Job Board	Links	Pages Indexed	Total Score
1	HireVeterans.com	28271	91567	119838
2	RecruitMilitary.com	10639	51863	62502
3	DefenseTalent.com	525	49990	50515
4	Taonline.com	7280	26778	34058
5	VetJobs.com	11810	776	12586
6	MilitaryHire.com	1279	1094	2373
7	CivilianJobs.com	828	791	1619

* Tests taken using a 3rd party provider: SeoCentro.com

PRICE COMPARISONS

	Job Board	Price Per Post	Term	Avg. Monthly Price Per Post
1	HireVeterans.com	$ 99	12	$ 8
2	MilitaryHire.com	$ 15	1	$ 15
3	VetJobs.com	$ 195	2	$ 98
4	Taonline.com	$ 1250	12	$ 104
5	DefenseTalent.com	$ 400	3	$ 133
6	RecruitMilitary.com	$ 195	1	$ 195
7	CivilianJobs.com	N/A *	N/A *	N/A *

* Civilian Jobs only offers packages and does NOT sell posts by the job

	Job Board	Unlimited Job Postings	Unlimited Resume Search	Net Marketing	Annual Membership Fee
1	HireVeterans.com	YES	YES	YES	$ 708
2	CivilianJobs.com	YES *	NO	NO	$ 2000
3	MilitaryHire.com	YES	YES	NO	$ 6000
4	VetJobs.com	YES	NO	NO	$ 8750
5	Taonline.com	YES	YES	NO	$ 9150
6	RecruitMilitary.com	NO	NO	NO	n/a
7	DefenseTalent.com	NO	NO	NO	n/a

* Civilian Jobs allows up to a Maximum of 200 job posts for their Membership Service

CONCLUSION

All the sites rated above are not created equal. Some are price heavy and some are stronger in their net saturation justifying a stronger price point. However, they all provide valued service. In terms of Jobseekers, the success of the sites above is good news for all veterans because when Jobseekers post their resumes on these sites, it increases their exposure to help get them the job offers they seek.

In the end, it’s all about helping our veterans get great jobs and, for that, we applaud all the job sites and their strong managements.

Good Job!