SEO & You
Mention “SEO” to some and they’ll simply scratch their heads or wonder if it is a derivative of CEO — chief executive officer.
SEO — search engine optimization — is an important driving force behind the way web site designers craft and market their sites for the search engines. Sure, you want people to find your site or web page, however you need a search engine to bring them there. By using certain keywords, such as corporate flight attendant, business jet, Gulfstream, etc., targeted traffic will find a web page or site in short order.
Especially helpful are those sites that appear on the first page of the results. Enter “corporate flight attendant” in your Google, MSN, or Yahoo search parameters and you will quickly see what I mean: this site always occupies at least one of the top ten results with the Big 3 search engines, typically 2 or even 3.
What does this mean for you? Well, first of all: know what you are getting when listing your resume online. I have checked the flight attendant resume listing offers for Gofir and Corporate Jet Link to see how they compare with this site and have discovered that neither site lists your resume by your name. Yes, your name is on the resume, but it doesn’t show up in the title of the web page nor is it part of the URL [the web address]. This means that, for the most part, your resume will not appear independently of the two sites. Instead, your resume will likely be found if and only if someone knows to visit those sites.
For the Corporate Flight Attendant Community site, I take a different and much more effective approach: your name is in the title of your resume and your name is also listed in the URL. This means that people can find your resume two different ways: through a visit to this site or randomly when they enter certain keywords [as mentioned above] within their search parameters. I don’t want to chance it that someone might not yet have heard of this site, so I make certain that your resume pops up independently to give you a better chance of being found.
Yes, Gofir’s service is free — but you’ll be listed with well over 100 other prospects, many of whom do not have any experience. Corporate Jet Link charges $10.95 per month, but for the money you get no independent listing.
Sure, this entry is a shameless plug for our small group of corporate flight attendants who list their resume online, get a unique web address, and have it search engine optimized. At $89 per year, the service is a bargain and includes much more than what the other sites can deliver. Oh, by the way, did I mention that our listed resumes are custom designed too? Yes, we deliver!
If you are interested in having your resume featured online [trained, qualified private jet flight attendants only] please visit this page, fill out the form, and send a copy of your resume to me. When I am ready to launch my next resume posting opportunity, I will notify you directly.