Hound.com = Spammer
Last week one of my sites which accepts free postings started getting irrelevant job postings from another job board. That job board is called Hound.com and this is my public plea to end the spam!
I have rejected all their postings so far (40 and counting) and emailed them to stop but the jobs keep coming.
So I am now forced to call them out publicly.
Job boards should not be spamming other job boards. I dont mind an occasional job or two as long as its related to the niche the board is targeting. But when you post 10 jobs in the span of 30 minutes its just pure spam.
Shame on yourself Hound.
I have rejected all their postings so far (40 and counting) and emailed them to stop but the jobs keep coming.
So I am now forced to call them out publicly.
Job boards should not be spamming other job boards. I dont mind an occasional job or two as long as its related to the niche the board is targeting. But when you post 10 jobs in the span of 30 minutes its just pure spam.
Shame on yourself Hound.
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Comment by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on December 16, 2009 at 10:21am -
These are the same guys that do Employment Crossing - ie, Harrison Barnes.
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Comment by Steven Rothberg on December 16, 2009 at 10:21am -
I can see 10 jobs in 30 minutes as being entirely legitimate, but I think that I know you well enough to understand that your concern wasn't so much the quantity but the quality of the jobs. Can you be more specific about why you felt that the jobs were irrelevant? Did they disregard any clear instructions regarding the targeting or content that you require or prohibit?
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Comment by Dean Davis on December 16, 2009 at 10:23am -
This also happens to the JobHill.com Network of Discount Niche Job Boards and our free job posting site LocalHelpWanted.com also. Thank you for bringing this to light
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Comment by Sam Morse on December 16, 2009 at 10:24am -
Hound was hammering our site about a year ago. They completely ignored our robots.txt file going very deep and grabbing the same pages many times - messing up our job count and job reply statistics.
I eventually found a phone number for them and called them to stop accessing our site. They, of course, denied everything. I had send them log snippits. Eventually they went away.
-Sam
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Comment by Chris Russell on December 16, 2009 at 10:25am -
@steven job boards should not be spamming other boards. The site in question is a green job board that only lists green jobs...the jobs they were posting were not related to green.
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Comment by Steven Rothberg on December 16, 2009 at 10:29am
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Oh, Harrison Barnes. Now there's a name that I thought that I'd never hear again. I had a few conversations with the guy a few years ago. Not much that I should write about my impressions.
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Comment by Sabrina Compagno on December 16, 2009 at 10:30am
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This is happening more and more. Many boards (especially a few of the large, well advertised ones) scrape jobs from one board, post then as their own "new" jobs then try to post to another board just to bring traffic back to them (usually with no real contact info - just an internal email/ link to that board). They then spam the candidates who apply. Too bad they really don't care about helping the candidate or the hiring agency. It gives boards, recruiters and companies a very big black eye.
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Comment by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on December 16, 2009 at 10:33am
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Aw, come on Steven - spill! We want impressions!
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Comment by Steven Rothberg on December 16, 2009 at 10:46am
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Jeff -- I thought about giving some details but I really don't want to get sued for defamation. Truth is an absolute defense, but you still have to defend. Let's just say that I normally don't shower at the end of my workdays but I felt the need to do so then.
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Comment by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on December 16, 2009 at 10:48am
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'Nuff said.
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