Think Like a Search Engine Find User Groups for Leads

Think Like a Search EngineFind User Groups

The 2 People Who Can Use this…

Recruiters

• Find niche groups online

• Identify leadership

• Pipeline outside of LinkedIn

Candidates

• Connect with other professionals

• Establish your brand

• Target active companies for jobs

“User Group:” To Colon or Not to Colon

Google Stems for: user, users, group, team

…AND…GoogleDrops

“Group:Agile” from the search!

Start with your Preferred Word – Agile –

With the Colon74MM Results

Groups & Individuals

No COLON65MM

but by Page 10 [More Companies]

All AgileOnly 4 pages of results

A niche by any other name…

YahooImages Potential Leads

as images are

posted by

….people…

YahooVideoMore people?!

Yahoo No Colon – No Matter

Same Result Set

Relatively Smaller Compared to Google

Bing Outcome

– Identical to Yahoo –Except: Bing Provides Additional Suggestions

Ah, Duck!

Search Results Smaller

And Similar to Bing

BUT…. Colon-On / Colon-Off!?

Each had unique video results (leads)… quack

A blast from AIRS

past…

“No” Colon produced more results

They explain the results, too:

“Exactly 176K from an index of about 928MM pages”

Web pages with more “backlinks” suggest higher traffic locations

Remember it this way…

What-you-really-NEED-goes-first[[[then]]]

Where-they-might-HANG-OUT-comes-second[[[associations, blogs, alumni, groups, users ]]]

Simple Changes in “Word Sequence”Make a Difference in Search Outcomes

Click the Image & Video Search Buttons!To Increase Your Potential Leads

Find YOUR Niches!

Dirk Spencer - Corporate Recruiter

Author Resume Psychology ©

Resume Hacks & Traps Revealed

Beat the Machine. Be Seen. Get Hired!

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