The Easy Job Boards Blog

We’re happy to announce that you can now run Google AdSense advertising on your Easy Job Board!

AdSense gives you a simple way to generate advertising revenue from your job board. It’s very simple to configure: just sign in to your job board, navigate to the “Advanced” settings panel in the management section and paste in the JavaScript code you got from Google. Save changes and your board will begin serving ads to your visitors right away!

You can monitor how your AdSense campaign is progressing via your Google AdSense account just as if it was on your own site.

We’re looking for feedback on how you want us to take this feature forward and would love to hear your wants and needs.

If you have tried Easy Job Boards yet, you can get your own job board here.

Yesterday we put live some new features on Easy Job Boards.

Job Roles

You can now add Roles to your job board so that jobs can be categorised for easy browsing. For example, a job board for restaurant staff could have roles for Chef, Waiter/Waitress, Matra’de, etc.

Easily add roles using the board management interface

Visitors to your job board can filter the available jobs by role and also by contract type – Permanent, Contract, Freelance, Other. For boards with a lot of job listings this makes it much easier for people to find exactly the jobs they are interested in.

Filter by Role and Contract Type to show only matching jobs

Themes and Custom Colours

As well as adding your own logo to your job board, you can now choose some of the colours. We have a few ready made “themes” (or colour schemes) which you can use, or you can choose colours for the background, headings and links, perhaps to match the colours on your main website or logo.

Pick a ready-made theme or choose your own colours

We’ve also made some improvements to the layout of job listings and the management interface. If you haven’t tried Easy Job Boards yet, you can sign up and get our 14-day free trial and take a look for yourself.

We’d love to hear your feedback.

A couple of days ago we announced that we’d soon be implementing custom domain functionality in to Easy Job Boards. Well, we quietly introduced the feature last night which means that as well as being able to run your job board on an easyjobboards.com subdomain e.g. myboard.easyjobboards.com, you can now run it on any domain which you own.

So, if you own newyorkaccountancyjobs.com, you can now run your job board directly from that address. Or, if you already have a company website, you can use a jobs subdomain like jobs.mycompany.com. There are only two things you need to do to make it work:

Step 1: Add the domain to your board settings

Log in to your board and go to the settings page. Add your domain name under Advanced Settings.

Simply add your domain name, save and you're all set

Step 2: Change DNS settings

When somebody types in your domain name, it needs to resolve to our server so we can show your job board. You can usually manage DNS settings at your domain registrar (where you registered the domain) or through a third-party DNS hosting company.

The best way is to add an alias or CNAME record which maps your full domain to your boards subdomain on Easy Job Boards. For example, the full domain geekjobs.im is an alias for geekjobs.easyjobboards.com.

Example DNS settings using zoneedit.com

With these changes made, your job board is available to visitors using your own custom domain. The private management interface still uses the subdomain.

As more people have been trying out Easy Job Boards, we’ve had a few feature requests. The most requested feature so far has been to allow custom domains for job boards.

Job Board on a subdomain

When you create your own job board using the Easy Job Boards service, your site appears on its own subdomain, e.g. example.easyjobboards.com. For many job boards this is fine and is an easy way to get started. Your job board still has its own unique address you can link to or use in email, print ads, etc.

Custom Domain for your Job Board

Some job boards have a stronger brand and want to use their own domain name. For example, the “geekjobs” board is at geekjobs.easyjobboards.com but can also be accessed on its own domain geekjobs.im.

Although we have internal support for custom domains, at present customers need to contact support to request it. We plan to fix that soon by making it so you can specify the domain using the management interface and then make a change to the DNS record using your normal domain registrar or DNS hosting service.

With these changes, you’ll be able to put your job board on any domain you control. We’ll let you know when it’s ready to roll!

Today we’ve made some design and copy changes to Easy Job Boards. We wanted to make it much clearer at a glance that it’s an easy way to start your own job board. Keeping it easy is one of our goals. We want to make it easy for non-technical people to start and run a job board without needing to employ IT guys or developers.

We have also improved the board management interface to make it easier to add job listings and contacts. More improvements are in the pipeline and we’d love to hear your suggestions.