This is from the post I wrote called Link Building With Your Resume. I’ve been trying to find another way to build links that will come off as reputable links and it led me to resume websites. There have been quite a few web 2.0 resume creating/posting sites coming out as well, if you dig deep, there are a ton of old and authorative resume sites. The beauty about link building this way is that you can also sharpen your resume writing skills, and even perhaps snag a few jobs within your industry. Some of the web 2.0 based resume sites have built in wizards to create your online wizard in a snap, which usually includes a place for a backlink. I won’t name too many sites and leave the resume site snooping up to you guys, but we’ll take a look at one site which makes a perfect example. Emurse is an online resume site that does everything from create and store your professional resume online with all the print options so employers can get your resume easily. They also keeps track of your past and present colleagues using the Emurse contact manager. Invite your contacts to Emurse and always have access to their latest contact information and resume. In this day and age of technology, blogs, podcasts and social networking employers want to see your online portfolio, so what a better way to drop some links. You can start by creating an account and get to creating your resume. You can see for yourself that you can get do follow backlinks within your resume by checking out the latest resumes. One of the new ones listed was Jason Yandell’s resume which you can see his links in action within his resume. I hope this gives you guys the inspiration to go and find out other resume sites that are great for link building, and if you do come on over to the link building forums and make a post! I’m going to be doing some link building with my resume this week in order to gain some more authoraty for this site. It’s still so new and I could use all the help I can get.
Depends on the site! There are a lot of old resume sites out there with do follow on..you just have to find them
Why are resume web sites 'reputable'? How did you get 'led' to this web site? I would like to understand what you are saying a bit more (sounds interesting).
Well some resume sites are reputable due to the age of the sites, number of inbound links, pages indexed in Google etc. I've just taken a look at a lot of resume sites and a huge chunk of them have been around a very long time, so the links can be juicy. And these new 2.0 resume sites are really slick and are a good way imho to promote yourself with just not only a link. I'm just trying to think outside the box! Cheers mate -Ryan
Do you have a link to Jason's resume so we can check it out? EDIT: Never mind. I found it. http://jasonyandell.emurse.com/ Nice find.
The beauty of the resume pages at Emurse are that they have very low link counts. 22 for Jason's, about 50/50 internal/external. You can work strong anchor text into your resume links (I think Jason's are a little weak). For right now, they are DoFollow. Chances are that if everyone raids the site with spammy resumes, that policy could very well change and quickly.
This is really good info. I'll go check out Emurse right now (and see what other similar sites I can find too)! Thanks a lot.
Do you have experience how long will the resume in average stay on the website? Is it usually forever or are there some rules like 6 months and then is the resume deleted?
Very nice method, thanks for sharing it, + rep added It takes some time to get working, but let's hope that only those who do not spam hear about it.
OK I've been giving this a try and it seems to work pretty well with most search engines, but Google still doesn't give me any love. I don't see 'one' link from 20 resumes I posted. It's been 4 months of posting now.
Google doesn't show all links. Google take into account many links but displays only some % of the most relevant.