Jobs listing page optimization

[catherine-279388]

I've a client with a jobs page.  I've found that a high traffic, low competition keyword phrase 'OH jobs' and wish to optimize appropriately.  The trouble is that there is hardly any body text and any number of job entry listing.  As the listing which all go to individual job description pages, naturally fit the description (part description) OH Job - would it be good to use this description within the anchor text of the links?  If so is there a maximum?  I've been trawling around SEOmoz and Google Search and have got more and more bogged down!

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[Vizergy]

If your client shops local universities for interns and/or employees, those universities will link to your client's jobs page from their careers page(s) as a resource for their students.  It is quite a relevant link and there are quite a few universities or colleges in OH... I'd hit them up as well as taking the on page advice that has been listed by Kade and Jesse (and anyone else that chimes in)

[jesse-landry]

don't forget image alt and title tags, that might boost your keyword optimization.

[kadesmith]

Ask yourself, "If I was on this page wanting to use it, what would make the most sense to me as a user?"  If the answer to that question is, "Yes, it would make sense to put OH Job in the link," then put it in there.  If the answer is no, do not put it in there.  You want your website to service the needs of your users, not the search engines.

Basically it goes like this, if the keywords you are wanting to rank a certain page for, don't naturally fit within that page, you shouldn't be trying to rank for those keywords.  Otherwise you are "spamming" the web.  Your users will land on the page, find that it doesn't fulfill their needs, and leave if the keywords don't fit there.

If the keywords do fit on the page, you shouldn't have much trouble ranking for a low comp phrase.