Hound.com = Spammer

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Comment by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on December 16, 2009 at 10:48am

'Nuff said.

Comment by Steven Rothberg on December 16, 2009 at 10:46am

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.

Comment by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on December 16, 2009 at 10:33am

Aw, come on Steven - spill! We want impressions!

Comment by Sabrina Compagno on December 16, 2009 at 10:30am

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.

Comment by Steven Rothberg on December 16, 2009 at 10:29am

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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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